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Julie Lai

Julie Lai

Marketing
Taipei

Summary

Marketing professional with 15+ years of experience in advertising, marketing, branding, and business strategy across FMCG, media and retail industries. Skilled in developing, implementing and executing strategic marketing plans to attract customers through a diverse media and communication vehicles.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Commercial Activity Leader

DF IKEA North Asia
10.2022 - 08.2023
  • Work closely with Commercial Team to plan and implement activity calendar that meets DF IKEA North Asia (Taiwan, Hong kong and Macau) markets' businesses objectives.
  • Secure cross-function consistency and alignment of plans in Commercial Team with aim to maximize activity impact and improve ways of working.
  • Support Local Marketing Managers by ensuring structured and transparent communication.
  • Analyze and identify successful activities, solutions and ideas, which improvement for future activities planning.

Marketing Leader

DF IKEA North Asia
4 2017 - 10.2022
  • Work with campaign team to develop comprehensive and attractive communication/ media plan to meet campaign goals.
  • Lead and support external agencies to explore, develop and implement contents on competitive media platforms to attract visitors to IKEA's omnichannel.
  • Key achievements: Marketing campaign owner of over 10 launch campaigns since joining IKEA in 2017
  • 2019 and 2020 global content and catalogue production and communication owner.
  • 2020 TaoYuan Store relocation/ opening campaign marketing communication owner.
  • 2019 IKEA Hotel communication and media implementation support.

Account Director

Ogilvy&Mather Group – David Advertising
03.2013 - 03.2017
  • Brand & product communication planning/ creative execution and supervision/ budget management/ resource coordination
  • Client: Google/ Cerebos/ Japan Tourism Bureau/ Coca-Cola

Regional Strategy Planner

Yahoo Inc.
03.2012 - 03.2013
  • APAC regional key account media strategy and content planning
  • Client: P&G/ Unilever/ L'Oreal/ Samsung

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Communications

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
09.2000 - 05.2004

Bachelor of Arts - Japanese

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
09.2000 - 05.2004

Skills

  • Holistic communication strategy and activity planning

  • Project management skill

  • Creative development and execution

  • Media planning and analysis

  • Holistic communication strategy and activity planning

Additional Information

Please find production showcase as below

[CY17 Storage Across the Home makeover video]

  • https://youtu.be/PhvBRk524Uk?si=EtO2EkaUkPQWRx7i

[CY18 Back to School student dormitory small space makeover video]

  • https://youtu.be/78NnpdV-Dag?si=MQlAiaJ2oMU7Hf1c

[CY19 E-Commerce launch video]

  • https://youtube.com/shorts/m6PvrJ66Isg?si=gwUxnDs3iZZx2TaH
  • https://youtube.com/shorts/sJBoh4aibLA?si=yd0rElE8zRFUmgGJ

[CY20 Catalogue launch mini film reel]

  • https://youtu.be/ZgyfAorINEw?si=7d6ctHawb6qgjkiz

[CY21 IKEA Animal Crossing catalogue]

  • https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/8/21/21395096/ikea-tawain-animal-crossing-catalog

[CY22 IKEA dollar catalogue]

  • https://www2.spikes.asia/winners/2022/creative_ecommerce/

[CY22 everyday low price 3D animation

  • https://youtu.be/SG_b4LtJD3w?si=OxLp_2sj91v8D-te

[CY22 IMC balcony global content collaboration]

  • https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FIKEA.Taiwan%2Fposts%2F5222333841155809



Timeline

Commercial Activity Leader

DF IKEA North Asia
10.2022 - 08.2023

Account Director

Ogilvy&Mather Group – David Advertising
03.2013 - 03.2017

Regional Strategy Planner

Yahoo Inc.
03.2012 - 03.2013

Bachelor of Arts - Communications

University of Wisconsin - Madison
09.2000 - 05.2004

Bachelor of Arts - Japanese

University of Wisconsin - Madison
09.2000 - 05.2004

Marketing Leader

DF IKEA North Asia
4 2017 - 10.2022
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