KINGA SMAGOROWICZ
POSSESSES A VALID OPEN CANADIAN WORK VISA
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23 Valmount, DDO, H9B2T8, Montreal, Canada
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Professional Profile
An extremely hard working, highly self-motivated and ambitious marketing professional with a demonstrable track
record within the sector. Attentive to detail with strong working knowledge marketing practices. Possesses excellent
time management, organization, planning, decision making and interpersonal skills, utilizing superior communicative
abilities to build, develop and maintain beneficial relationships. Remains calm under pressure and thrives in a
challenging working environment.
Objective
Currently looking to secure a challenging and rewarding marketing role with a dynamic business in which I would like
to contribute long term. I relocated to Montreal after the devastation in the British Virgin Islands and therefore
looking for a role where the skills, knowledge and expertise gained throughout a successful career to date can be
applied and further professional and personal development attained.
Career Summary
May 2016 – to Oct 2017
Marketing Manager / Officer, Island Pyramid Media Group / Phoenix Caribbean
Key Achievements:
● Created a vibrant social media profile for my client within the automotive industry which resulted in
increased visibility online driving customer communication
● Consistently monitoring the competitor market to enable successful tailored campaigns which saw my client’s
business recognized as reliable, honest and efficient.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for marketing and communications strategy building and execution based on the current brand
recognition, actions, and competitors’ analysis. Contributed to a vast social media engagement, new promotional
strategies, and compelling graphic designs resulting in higher “walk through the door” rate. Hence, increased brand
recognition and revenue. Responsible for online strategy building and execution. Contributed to higher website traffic,
interesting and engaging online content, and improvement of Google AdWords strategies which resulted in decrease
of the cost of online advertisement and increased its efficiency.
Reason for leaving: My employment came to an end due to the destruction hurricane Irma caused in the British Virgin
Islands.
Apr 2015 – June 2016
Marketing Specialist, Dunlop Conveyor Belting
Responsible for market research and competition analysis, online and offline strategy building and execution, and
product positioning. Contributed to an increased lead generation and modernization of company’s sales and
marketing strategy which resulted in increase of quotation requests, shorter and more efficient sales process.
Dec 2014 – Mar 2015
Market Research Project Executive, NNZ Group
Responsible for conducting market research of Polish firewood market. Produced a comprehensive report including
solutions and recommendations which resulted in market entry and profitable operation based on credible data. This
role was a 4 month FTC.
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Jul 2014 – Sep 2014
Market Research Project Lead, Hilton Foods Group
Responsible for developing and conducting marketing research on the customers’ behavior in the meat
section of Tesco stores and their decision-making process. Produced a report and presented solutions which
contributed to more efficient and fact-based product and POS development. This role was a 3 month FTC.
Other Experience:
Other
Accomplishments:
In addition to my work history detailed above I carried out several fixed term contract /
temporary assignments, details of which can be provided upon request.
Guest lecturer at the University of Economics in Katowice
Education
University of
Economics in
Katowice
Master of Science, Major: International Business (Conducted in English)
University of
Economics in
Katowice
Bachelor of Science, Major: International Economic Relations
Key IT Skills
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), CorelDraw, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Gimp, Canva, CMS, CRM
(Wordpress, Typo3), Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Hootsuite, social media.
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Bilingual (English and Polish), basic knowledge of Spanish
Available to travel for work and open to relocation
Demonstrable ability to think systematically
Outstanding organizational skills
Can tailor sampling and analysis methods to be appropriate to a given problem
Conclusion drawing and strategy building
Strategy risk management and implementation of contingencies
References are available on request
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