Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Languages
Awards
Timeline
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HAMZA ABDULLAH

Toronto,Canada

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director, Paid Search

Media Monks - CA
06.2024 - Current

S4 Capital - Media Monks

  • Spearheading organizational leadership in paid search and SEO, driving alignment across teams and clients with overarching business goals.
  • Managing a team of paid search practitioners, fostering professional growth, and cultivating a high-performing, collaborative culture.
  • Leading strategic decision-making processes, leveraging data-driven insights to shape short- and long-term organizational priorities.
  • Navigating high-level industry trends and explaining their impacts on clients.
  • Assisting the sales team with pre-sales proposal responses, technical demos, and marketing efforts.
  • Implementing scalable processes and products across a rapidly growing organization.
  • Offering strategic architectural insight and guidance for clients' comprehensive digital advertising strategies.
  • Collaborating closely with account management trainers to facilitate internal and external system training.
  • Providing technical expertise for account managers looking to activate new opportunities for their clients.
  • Ensuring accountability across project teams, delivering high-quality and timely work that exceeds baseline content and deadline expectations across defined scopes of work.
  • Develop and manage project plans (team member allocation, timelines, budget deliverables)
  • Spearheaded innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning.

Project Lead

Media Monks - CA
10.2022 - 06.2024

Senior Account Manager

Media Monks - CA
06.2021 - 10.2022

Supervisor, Search & Analytics – Mazda Lead

GroupM - Neo Media World
06.2019 - 06.2021
  • Managing a team of 3 paid search practitioners
  • Planning, developing and executing search campaigns with an ongoing strategic optimization
  • Primary escalation points for all client and most internal team matters related to paid products like advanced strategy and in-depth analysis, billing reconciliation, and product training
  • Advanced company innovation, product adoption, and learning regarding industry trends, betas and data.
  • Created attribution models for various clients to prove the value of paid search effects.
  • Working directly with clients to update campaigns, report performance, handle contracts and IO’s.
  • Performed technical SEO audits on new and existing client sites.
  • Designed and developed Data Studio dashboards to eliminate manual reporting and provide real-time analytics for clients.
  • Working closely with the creative agency to ensure we are following best practices from search standpoint and implemented RSA’s across all accounts.

Paid Search Strategist

OMD
09.2018 - 06.2019
  • Paid search programs including strategic approaches, bid

recommendations, execution details, budgets/accounting, and overall goal achievement.

  • Handle Paid Search campaigns with quarterly budgets of

approx. Greater than 2M dollars.

  • Evaluated campaigns performance analytics based on clients primary KPI.
  • Actively contribute to corporate initiatives, automation projects, process changes, and rollouts.
  • Build, or assist in crafting POVs, standard methodologies, and key process documentation.
  • Stay current on industry trends, focusing on how changes can help improve offerings to accounts and enhance our overall practice.

Digital Marketer – Paid Search & SEO

Freelance
03.2013 - 09.2018
  • Lead a team of 4 freelancers – content writers, graphic designs and SEO specialists
  • Managed 10 Paid search accounts and 3 SEO accounts
  • Developed paid & organic focused strategy campaigns for clients to achieve their monthly targets
  • Created a monthly/quarterly report for all paid media efforts
  • Provided suggestions on content and design for all landing pages development
  • Created an integrated solution for both SEM channels (Paid search and SEO)
  • Analyzed campaigns by CTR, CPC, Keywords, bounce rates, organic ranking and creatives
  • Executed Facebook, Instagram and Twitter campaigns

Education

Marketing Management -

Seneca Collage
Toronto, ON
01.2018

Skills

  • Search Ads 360
  • E-Commerce
  • Google & Microsoft Ads
  • GA360
  • Looker Studio
  • SemRush
  • Brightedge

Certification

  • Search Ads 360
  • Google Ads
  • Google Shopping Ads
  • Microsoft Ads
  • Apple Search Ads
  • Snapchat Ads
  • Twitter Ads

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Native or Bilingual

Awards

  • Google Performance Masters 'Budget Bid Strategy' - Auto
  • Google Performance Honours 'Creative Excellence' - Auto
  • Bing Go for Gold Best Performing Account - Telo
  • NEO Global 'Innovation Technology' – Non-profit

Timeline

Director, Paid Search

Media Monks - CA
06.2024 - Current

Project Lead

Media Monks - CA
10.2022 - 06.2024

Senior Account Manager

Media Monks - CA
06.2021 - 10.2022

Supervisor, Search & Analytics – Mazda Lead

GroupM - Neo Media World
06.2019 - 06.2021

Paid Search Strategist

OMD
09.2018 - 06.2019

Digital Marketer – Paid Search & SEO

Freelance
03.2013 - 09.2018
  • Search Ads 360
  • Google Ads
  • Google Shopping Ads
  • Microsoft Ads
  • Apple Search Ads
  • Snapchat Ads
  • Twitter Ads

Marketing Management -

Seneca Collage
HAMZA ABDULLAH