Gin Lin

Remote (Mostly in Asia and Europe)
enjinlin@gmail.com
  • Established a new brand, Tagnology , achieving continuous increase of sales of 20% quarterly.
  • Launched London office for Tagboard and generated 5% sales and drove business development in EMEA markets.
  • Successfully built 3 retail locations in London for German-based brand BoBoQ within 6 months and achieved sales target by 10%.

Experience

Brand Manager

Nuna International BV, Taipei
  • Designed marketing strategy and executed marketing activities for export markets (Asia and LATAM) that align with global brand positioning.
  • Organized annual international fairs, including K+J show in Cologne, Germany and provided consultation for 20 distributors for overall marketing strategy, global plans, and local activities.
  • Partnered with the sales team to establish a clear and effective channel strategy and trade initiatives for key accounts and retailers.
June 2019 - February 2020

Sales and Project Manager

Tagnology, Memopresso Inc., Taipei
  • Clients: Carat Media, Estée Lauder Group, Publicis Group, Condé Nast, Fendi, Lululemon, Marie Clarie.
  • Converted viable prospects to active Tagnology/ Memopresso users, owning the full sales conversation and negotiation, through to the transition of new clients to the management team.
  • Established a unique and competitive product roadmap with development team after analysing the market landscape and clients’ feedback.
  • Spearheaded partnership initiatives and fundraising opportunities with clients.
July 2017 - June 2019

International Business Development Manager

Tagboard, Taipei & London
  • Clients: FIFA, MEC, Bloomberg UK, Huawei, MiniCooper, Nike, Redbull, Audi, FinnAir.
  • Launched the company’s third satellite office in London, UK. Led recruitment, training, and sales generation.
  • Developed business strategy for APAC and EU markets while collaborating with HQ to deliver against global business objectives.
  • Pitched to 100 clients in the Fashion and Luxury industry as a seminar speaker to introduce and upsell company service and product.
  • Built and nurtured partner relations from inbound leads and outbound reach to generate sales and increase awareness of the brand.
March 2015 - March 2017

Sponsorship Operations Support

Manchester United Football Club, London
  • Coordinated China B2B sponsorship sales including setting up meetings, communication, translation and interpretation.
  • Developed gifting strategy, dispatch and customization of marketing materials.
July 2013 - July 2014

Sales and Marketing Manager

BoBoQ Ltd, London
  • Launched BoBoQ, a German-based tea shop, new retail in the UK, and supervised a staff of 10.
  • Organised recruitment and training, supervised operational logistics and budget control, created brand and marketing campaigns.
  • Drove 10% sales growth every month and prompted 2 additional locationswithin 6 months.
November 2012 - October 2013

Commercial Buyer

Sculfort, London
  • Managed essential customer accounts including negotiation of pricing andinternational meetings/exhibitions.
  • Represented Sculfort at the International Railway Exhibition in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
May 2012 - November 2012

Freelance Projects

Marketing Project Lead

Da-Cheng Vocational High School

Conducted a marketing plan to transform school's public images into a young, international and trustworthy school authority including re-building website, SEO and key visual online.

June-September 2020

Project manager and UX designer

Surprise Lab Ltd

Ideated and built a back-end CRM system including personalized e-commerce tool with design and engineer teams.

April 2019 - October 2019

Marketing Strategist

Safe Care (Indonesia brand)

Created and executed strategic and tactical plans for product launch in Taiwan, organically growing Instagram reach 25% every month.

June 2019 - February 2020

Influencer Agent

Pizza Hut

Designed influencer outreach strategy and ensured branded content on influencers’ feeds with approval under tight deadline and budget.

March 2019

Business Strategist and translator

N.M.C Enterprise Co. (Thai brand)

Developed business proposal, communication and translation for joining a Taiwanese bubble tea franchising brand.

June 2018

Blogger Activation Executive

Unruly Media (UK brand)

Established award-winning social video campaigns incorporating blogger-produced content for Rolex, Samsung, Asus and others.

October 2013 - October 2016

Education

University of Leeds

Master Degree
Advertising and Marketing

Merit / Distinction for dissertation

September 2010 - January 2012

Skills & Interests

Skills
  • Language: Mandarin, English
  • Scrum and Project Management
  • Sales and Digital Marketing
  • HTML and CSS
  • Basic UX design


Certification
  • Scrum Master
  • Google Analytics; Google Ad
  • Hubspot: Social media; content strategy; email marketing


Interests

Yoga, Baking, Travelling, Thai Boxing, Psycology