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Shimin Ran

Christchurch,CAN

Summary

Expert Digital Marketing Specialist with proven record of exceeding marketing objectives by developing high-performing, multifaceted digital marketing plans. Passionate about connecting with target audiences and driving consistent growth. Insight-driven and adaptable to changing market conditions.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Digital Marketing Specialist

Harvey Cameron
11.2022 - 05.2023

Media Planning & Purchasing

  • Order and purchase the correct media via various publishers either manually or programmatically.
  • Assist Marketing Manager to create a media plan that outlines clients' marketing strategy.

Budget Management & Invoicing

  • Continuously optimise and monitor the budget spent during the live activity period, ensuring that the budget of each media channel is spent smoothly and efficiently.
  • Calculate the campaign cost and invoice clients on a monthly basis.

Campaign Management

  • Establish various types of paid campaigns from scratch, including search, display (mostly via programmatic advertising), video, shopping, and social.
  • Regularly check and optimise campaigns towards good results using publisher dashboards such as Google Ads, Google Analytics (both Universal and GA4), Meta Ads Manager, Microsoft Ads, etc.
  • Create monthly reports using Google Data Studio to track and measure digital marketing success for management.
  • Generate insights and comments based on campaign performance on a monthly basis.

Customer Management & Account Management

  • Set up regular meetings with clients to catch up with their business changes and hear from their plans.
  • Adjust marketing strategies or budget, report on campaign performance and offer solutions based off clients' requirements.

Digital Campaign Manager

Yellow NZ Limited
10.2021 - 11.2022

Campaign Management

  • Create and manage Google and Facebook campaigns to ensure all activities run smoothly within the budgetary constraints.
  • Utilise Google Analytics to closely monitor and optimize campaign performance to achieve expected marketing objectives.
  • Implement Google Tag Manager, Wix, WordPress, etc. to track campaign results. Report on campaign performance via Swydo and Google Data Studio

Customer Relationship Management / Account Management

  • Assist media advisors to promote the best marketing products for clients on the media planning stage with a given budget.
  • Have routine meetings with clients: communicating over the business goals when setting up new campaigns, answering clients’ questions on a daily basis, reporting on the latest campaign performance and providing solutions based on their concerns on a monthly basis.
  • Manage product orders, billings and reportings for customers.

Marketing Coordinator

Partly Group Limited
03.2020 - 07.2021

SEM

  • Carry out SEM campaigns, track and evaluate key metrics (Conversions, CTR, etc.) in Google Analytics.
  • Constantly optimising campaign performance to complete 100% goal of MAU (4,000 monthly active users).
  • Deliver weekly SEM reports against KPI objectives to the board.

SEO & Content Creation

  • Execute onsite SEO, backlink building, content creating, writing blog articles, guest blogging to boost the web traffic.
  • Analyse users' browsing behavior and adjust landing page content to increase the conversation rate of new sales qualified leads and successfully reduce 25% of user acquisition cost.
  • Generate insight reports for the supervisor to compare the SEO performance.


Branding & PR

  • Organise community networking activities and company cultural events.
  • Pitch & present on behalf of the company at various conferences, cultivating brand awareness.
  • Operate and manage company social media such as LinkedIn from 0 to 756 within 12 months.

EDM

  • Drive E-mail acquisition to support key business initiatives across account management.
  • Execute: using Intercom to write up email content and design formats, set up automated email series and follow-ups.
  • Track performance, optimise campaigns and deliver reports.

Marketing Intern - Asian Market

Tourism Holdings Limited Rentals NZ
08.2019 - 11.2019
  • Conduct a competitor analysis for Waitomo business in which seven business groups that could compete with Waitomo were analysed
  • Conduct a research for exploring Chinese market: collecting data, identifying target groups, analysing consumer behaviour
  • Proofread for an 82-page Chinese-translated file of a motorhome information manual
  • Update the official website of britz.cn

Education

Master of Arts - Strategic Communication

University of Canterbury
Christchurch, NZ
04.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Journalism

Huazhong University of Science And Technology
Wuhan, China
06.2017

Skills

  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Account Management
  • HubSpot CRM
  • PPC
  • SEO
  • Programmatic Advertising
  • Display Ads
  • Shopping Ads
  • Social Media Ads
  • EDM
  • Performance Evaluations
  • Reporting and Invoicing
  • Content Creation
  • Google Data Studio, GA4 and GTM

Referees

Anlerie Conradie | Digital Director of Harvey Cameron

Email: anlerie.conradie@harveycameron.co.nz 

Phone: +64 210 894 1035


Francois van Staden | Sales Leader at Yellow New Zealand

Email: Franc.vanStaden@yellow.co.nz

Phone: +64 274 189 830

Timeline

Digital Marketing Specialist

Harvey Cameron
11.2022 - 05.2023

Digital Campaign Manager

Yellow NZ Limited
10.2021 - 11.2022

Marketing Coordinator

Partly Group Limited
03.2020 - 07.2021

Marketing Intern - Asian Market

Tourism Holdings Limited Rentals NZ
08.2019 - 11.2019

Master of Arts - Strategic Communication

University of Canterbury

Bachelor of Arts - Journalism

Huazhong University of Science And Technology
Shimin Ran