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Tawfiq Abdullah

Hattiesburg,USA

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills toward addressing life impacting issues that are pertinent to individuals, groups, and the global community

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Intern

Step Up to Leadership (S2L), Aramark Offshore, USA
06.2017 - 07.2017

Sales and Sales Training Manager

Best Stores
01.2008 - 01.2016
  • Responsible for sales mandate of the field force and training of field sales representatives and channel partners in d
  • Light range of solar lantern

Regional Sales Training Manager

PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc
01.2006 - 01.2008
  • Accountable for sales training deliverables for the Northern Nigeria
  • This includes identifying skill gaps among sales force, developing training and delivery of the training.

Business Development Manager

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
01.2004 - 01.2006
  • Ensuring that the company's products move through the outlets within the shortest possible period
  • Building and maintaining a good relationship with channel partners for the company to leverage.

Sales Manager

Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
01.1998 - 01.2004
  • In charge of managing sales force to ensure regular supply of company’s products to customers in assigned territory and achievement of territory’s sales target.

Education

PhD Mass Communication -

The University of Southern Mississippi
01.2024

MS Communication -

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
01.2018

Chattered Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing -

National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria
01.2011

Master of Business Administration, MBA Marketing -

Lagos State University
01.2008

B.A. (Comb. Hons.) Philosophy & English -

Olabisi Onabanjo University
01.1994

Skills

  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Problem-Solving
  • Interpersonal and Social Skills
  • Quantitative Research
  • Qualitative Research
  • Issue Research
  • Data Analysis
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Research and analysis
  • Outstanding communication skills
  • Presentations
  • Client Relationships

Academicappointments

  • Instructor of Record, University of Southern Mississippi, USA, 2023, present
  • Graduate Research Assistant, University of Southern Mississippi, USA, 2023, present
  • Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA, 2016, 2018
  • English Language and Literature in English Teacher, Ejigbo High School, Nigeria, 1995, 1998
  • Business English Teacher, Master Board Fashion Institute, Nigeria, 1994, 1995

Publications

  • Framing of the US’2016 Presidential election: a content analysis of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s campaign speeches, Atlantic Journal of Communication, 1-20, 2021
  • Understanding Motivations for Plural Identity on Facebook among Nigerian Users: A Uses and Gratification Perspective for Engaging on Social Network Sites (SNS), Journalism and Media, 710-726, 2023

Timeline

Intern

Step Up to Leadership (S2L), Aramark Offshore, USA
06.2017 - 07.2017

Sales and Sales Training Manager

Best Stores
01.2008 - 01.2016

Regional Sales Training Manager

PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc
01.2006 - 01.2008

Business Development Manager

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
01.2004 - 01.2006

Sales Manager

Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company
01.1998 - 01.2004

PhD Mass Communication -

The University of Southern Mississippi

MS Communication -

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Chattered Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing -

National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria

Master of Business Administration, MBA Marketing -

Lagos State University

B.A. (Comb. Hons.) Philosophy & English -

Olabisi Onabanjo University
Tawfiq Abdullah