Maria Balzano

Involved in the communication and marketing team for events organization, communication and support to strategic planning.

• Develop collateral event promotional support: flyers, informational brochure, manage publishing agency relationship
• Digital communication: develop sector-based mailing lists, website update and upgrade, emailing design
• Event coordination: develop and manage events
• Cultivate and manage partners and sponsor relationship
• Work within a limited budget, creatively
• Develop Chamber's professional network: French and Italian companies canvassing
• Negotiate contracts with events providers and coordination
• Plan and organize events for the French-Italian CSR Observatory e
• Management of 2 interns

SKILLS IMPLEMENTED: project management, analytic ability, problem solving, organization, responsibility, critical mind and summary ability.

Collaborated directly with the University Cooperation Manager for communication and promotion of Italian-French university exchanges.

• Draft and edition of the “Vade-mecum for Erasmus French students in Italy” and online promotion
• Draft and edition of the BIFUR (Italian- French Bulletin on University and Research) – Edition June 2007 – and online promotion
• Organization of the «Italian-French Days 2007» in collaboration with the University of “La Sapienza”, Rome

SKILLS IMPLEMENTED: analytic and summary abilities, expressing and writing abilities.

• Followed up and management of customers’ requests in the Hotel Booking Department for large French companies (as OTIS or INSERM)
• Developed supplier portfolio according to clients’ needs

Skills implemented: customer-oriented approach, availability, reactivity