Campaign’s Media Faces to Watch 2021 —Ghida Ismail, Integrated Media Manager, Universal Media

Campaign’s Media Faces to Watch 2021 —Ghida Ismail, Integrated Media Manager, Universal Media

Age: 27

Nominated by Assaad Kassis, General Manager, Universal Media

Ghida is a working mom for a newborn child, that lead successfully the recruitment of 10 new fresh grad, conducted a full training and onboard them to work across all key accounts in the GCC. She is an integral part of the team that plan & execute the processes, recruitment and trainings while working from home. She joined UM more than 5 years ago and grew to become the hub integrated media planning lead. Her key role ensuring efficiency through streamlined processes between the hub and the GCC markets. Growing the team by organizing training programs, ensuring continuous cross channels updates, soft skills, and macro-manage the workload across the team. She is always maintaining a consistent workflow, accuracy of work, and quality service.

Bio

An integrated Media Manager with 5.5 years of experience leading on the regional media planning HUB in Beirut, with a team of 10 hybrid planners handling big portfolio such as L’Oréal, Coca Cola, Reckitt Benckizer, Aujan, Spotify, Sony and many others. In a period of 8 months, we onboarded UAE full portfolio, implemented internal processes and recruited 10 planners to reach a coherent and in-place team allocation.

Guiding principles

Lead by example, always stay connected to the team and listen very well to their concerns and thoughts. Sharing knowledge is as well key to pursue excellence. Just be yourself and stay honest.

How has Covid changed your job?

Covid made my new role a challenging one as I opened to a new market, trained fresh graduates remotely and maintained their and my own mental health especially that they have never worked before. Covid taught me that any job can be done remotely, regardless of how challenging it is. The key is to stay connected and close to your team, alongside good planning and efficient allocation of resources.

Side hustle

A first time full-time mom who delivered in the middle of the pandemic started a new role at my job and led a team of fresh grads on a new project. Not to mention working from home with a newborn, managing trainings and deadlines.

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