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Brand Director at Procter & Gamble

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

With extensive experience in brand management and a focus on media strategy and performance marketing, I am passionate about driving impactful results that align with Procter & Gamble’s mission in Türkiye. By leveraging retail media and digital commerce strategies, I aim to enhance visibility, optimize marketing investments, and deliver value for both consumers and the organization. My approach is rooted in data-driven decision-making and a commitment to fostering collaboration among teams and external partners. At Procter & Gamble, I lead the performance marketing and media strategy for the Fabric, Home, Baby, and Shave Care categories in Türkiye, driving visibility and sales across digital and traditional platforms. By partnering with vendors and agencies, I develop precise media plans, optimize ad spend, and analyze performance metrics to maximize ROI. With a deep understanding of retail media and digital commerce, I contribute to creating impactful campaigns that strengthen brand equity and grow market share.

Experience

  • Procter & Gamble (9 yrs 4 mos)
    • Brand Director - Media, Digital Commerce, Customer & Channel Marketing
      May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

      Overseeing performance marketing and media strategy for P&G Türkiye, integrating brand management with a deep understanding of digital commerce to drive impactful results: - Positioning retail media as a crucial driver for increasing visibility and sales on key digital platforms and in brick-and-mortar stores. By optimizing ad spend and ensuring precise targeting, I enhance performance and maximize our marketing efforts. - Collaborating with vendors and agencies to develop effective media plans, manage budgets, and analyze performance metrics, ensuring our campaigns deliver strong ROI.

    • Brand Director, Fabric Care
      Jul 2023 - May 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Directing the brand portfolio containing Ariel, Tide and Lenor. Leading the executions focusing on business delivery, brand building efforts and strategies.

    • Senior Brand Manager, Fabric Care
      Mar 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Managed Ariel business delivery via working on Fabric Care Category strategy in line with overall P&G & Business Unit strategy and develop marketing plans along with ATL/BTL campaigns to ensure consistent equity building. Owned for marketing budget management.

  • Avery Dennison (2 yrs 10 mos)
    • Global Quality Engineer
      Sep 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

      • Working with benchmark sites to identify and document the best practices and deploying them to key global sites. • Managing and resolving strategic cases worth over $10,000 with cross-functional teams. • Conducting supplier audits for key suppliers in various production locations. • Monitoring the data and operational key performance indicators of global production sites and developing improvement plans if needed.

    • Gold Associate - Global Project Engineer, Printing and Converting Platform Team
      Jun 2014 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • Worked with benchmark sites to identify and document the best practices and deployed them to key global sites. • Collaborated with third parties to improve service of digital printing technologies by creating an efficient escalation process and spare parts ordering process. • Supported development and deployment of key areas of end-to-end automation projects. • Led the development of web-based spare part management system for printing technologies for visibility of inventory and the performance of third parties on the delivery times .

  • Digital Marketing Intern at Eczacıbaşı İntema
    Jul 2013 - Aug 2013 · 2 mos

    • Managed social media accounts and web sites of Artema and Vitra brands. • Collaborated with digital agencies to create social media contents for Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.