Aykut Balıkcı

Business Development & Sales Business Lead at Paribu Art

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experience

  • Business Development & Sales Business Lead at Paribu Art
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Partnerships & Project Development Asst.Manager at Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi A.Ş.
    Oct 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    •Developing sponsorship & b2b projects for BKM's venue operations (Maximum Uniq, BKM Tiyatro), yearly more than 300+ events including tours among country + BKM’s tv series, void and cinema movies. •Creating the pricing strategy of partnership projects, presenting them to firms that will benefit strategically, and executing the deal process. •Micro-management of department bugdets and financial activities •Assessing incoming sponsorship and partnership requests and designing event and communication strategy aligned with the brand's guide. •Developing and implementing sponsorship campaigns such ticket discounts, giveaways and field activities •Selling both digital and offline media solutions to target event followers •Working closely with marketing, finance, corporate sales, corporate communications and programming departments *Responsible from more than 20 partners within different sectors such as İş Bankası, Anadolu Efes, DenizBank, Anadolu Sigorta, Mercedes-Benz, Pernod Richard, Ülker

  • Sponsorship Associate at İKSV
    Jan 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Evaluating new partnerships with considering the project & partners’ marcom strategies • Monitoring and reporting the department bugdets and financial activities • Creating sponsors’ communication plan working closely with partner & its creative agency • Performing ongoing client account management and maximizing long term revenue potential • Contributing internal new business project teams such İKSV Youtube channel, İKSV Shop *Executing relationship with more than 30 partners within different sectors such as Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, Borusan Holding, İş Bankası, Morhipo, Paribu

  • Sponsorship Specialist at Zorlu Performans Sanatları Merkezi
    Nov 2017 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    •Evaluate and research of new partnerships •Developing and implementing sponsorship campaigns. Tracking campaign budgets •Performing ongoing client account management and maximising long term revenue potential •Management, direction and delivery of all partners’ contractual rights •Monitoring and reporting the department budgets and financial activities *Responsible from; Turkcell, Mercedes-Benz, JTI, VISA, Pegasus Airlines, Garanti BBVA, Yves Rocher, Sek , Fuga **Key Projects (Turkcell Platinum 1001),(Visa Platinum 1+1),(Visa Platinum Seat),(Alice),(Garanti Jazz Green)

  • Jr. Project Manager at Geometry Global
    Feb 2017 - Nov 2017 · 10 mos

    •Working on direct, guerilla, event and trade marketing projects for various clients. •Managing the client relations; supervising ongoing projects by coordinating the communication and workflow between the client and operation team •Managing events and field operation •Management of field execution network •Prepared weekly project performance reports and actualized support operations reports ***Responsible from; Unilever (Knorr, Lipton), QNBFinansbank, Şölen *** Key Projects; Finansbank Career, AuditPro, FinansPro, Finans101