Cinar Sahin

Experience

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  Sungkyunkwan University

  Dec 2006 - Aug 2008

  Research Assistant
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  Samsung Electronics

  Oct 2008 - Jul 2012

  Responsible for Retail Management for Mobile Devices in GCC. Special focus in Smartphones In-store Experience/Shop-in Shop/Retail Sales Analytics. Member of Internal Consulting Team for Retail Management Set-up. Lead/Managed projects in KSA, Ukraine and Nigeria - covering all aspects of Retail Management Set-up/optimization.

  • Assistant Manager - Retail Marketing

    Apr 2011 - Jul 2012

  • Assitant Manager - Retail Empowerment Team for Mobile Division

    Oct 2008 - Apr 2011
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  Western Digital

  Jul 2012 - Jun 2017

  Gross profit, growth, share, pricing strategy owner - along with market, brand and channel development of WD products. Category owner of WD SSD and WD Desktop / Mobile / Surveillance / NAS / Enterprise (client) storage business in distribution channel in India, Middle East, Africa and Turkey. Owner of all Marketing Activities in Region with special focus on Channel Development, Training, Lead Generation and End User/Prosumer Reach Strategy.

  • Sr. Business Marketing Manager - India, Middle East and Africa

    Apr 2014 - Jun 2017

  • Channel Marketing Manager - Middle East & Africa

    Jul 2012 - Apr 2014
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  Seagate Technology

  Jul 2017 - now

  WW Distribution Pricing Lead for Seagate Distribution Business for Personal Storage / Specialised Drives and Cloud/Edge&Data Center Storage Solutions Pricing Director for APAC / Japan Region and Surveillance Vertical Category owner of Seagate Surveillance/ Enterprise/NAS/Computing businesses(HDD and SSD) in distribution channel in Japan, Asia Pacific, and India with direct responsibility of gross profit, growth, share, pricing strategy along with market, brand and channel development of Seagate products.

  • WW Distribution Pricing - Senior Director

    Aug 2024 - now

  • WW Distribution Pricing Director

    Oct 2022 - Aug 2024

  • Regional Pricing Director - Finance Pricing

    Apr 2020 - Oct 2022

  • Director - Business Marketing (APAC and Japan)

    Jul 2017 - Apr 2020