Irina Akelyeva
@irinaakelyeva
I help DTC brands grow through high-converting Shopify stores, CRO, retention, and email automation.
What I'm looking for
I partner with ambitious DTC brands to turn Shopify and Shopify Plus stores into high-converting, customer-centric experiences. At GAÂLA Paris, I provide freelance ecommerce consultancy focused on connecting brand, technology, and growth.
I've also worked as a freelance Digital Marketing Consultant for Tuscany Now & More and Rocket Digital, delivering full-cycle email marketing, segmentation, automation, inbound marketing, and CRM programs. My work spans Klaviyo, Mailchimp, SendGrid, Dotmailer, GetResponse, ActiveCampaign, SendPulse, HubSpot, and Salesforce.
Previously, I led marketing at Ernesto de Barcelona and taught email marketing and digital marketing strategy at IPM Business School. I bring experience in ecommerce, SEO/SEM, content, PR, social media, lifecycle communication, and operational leadership.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Provides ecommerce consultancy services, focusing on Shopify and Shopify Plus optimization for DTC brands.
Worked as Digital Marketing Consultant at Tuscany Now & More Ltd..
EMAIL MARKETING
We do a full-cycle email marketing - from design and segmentation to automation. ESPs: Klavyio, Mailchimp, SendGrid, Dotmailer, GetResponse, Active Campaign, Sendpulse.
INBOUND MARKETING
We create valuable content for your potential customers and promote it through the most effective channels.
CRM-MARKETING
We help you with the advanced segmentation of your database and automatio
Course "Email marketing"
Program "Professional Diploma in Marketing" - Module "Digital Marketing Strategy"
Intensive course for executives "Digital Marketing Strategy"
IPM Business School has the longest in Belarus experience in business education and is recognised as a leading private business school in Belarus В . IPM Business School is the only business school in Belarus that has the Internati
Ernesto de Barcelona (www.ernestodebarcelona.com) is a local designer brand of handmade jewellery & accessories. It is a small enterprise where I worked as a Marketing Director developing and executing marketing strategy:
- social media marketing,
- PR 2.0,
- trade marketing,
- email marketing,
- content marketing,
- SEO&SEM,
- E-Commerce.
Our marketing strategy covered B2B and B2C and primari
I started working at Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) as a project manager in 2009 in Kiev, it was a start-up project.
Together with the excellent team we have built sustainable influential economic think tank recognised on local and international level.
The range of my duties was extremely wide and included:
- daily management;
- strategy and budget development;
- fu
Worked as Financial And Administrative Manager at BEROC.
Country Team Leader under international project “Workshops for Economic and Business Journalist from Ukraine and Belarus”.
- strategy development;
- proposal and budget development;
- fundraising;
- team leading;
- development and maintenance of relationships with stakeholders in Belarus and abroad;
- development and maintenance of relationships with partners of the project;
- marketing and
Assistant to the Project "Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center" at Kyiv School of Economics/EERC.
- management of day-to-day operations;
- technical and financial reporting;
- maintenance of the web-site and marketing;
- networking;
- organization of workshops, visits, internships and conferences.
I started working at the IPM Research Center in November 2007 as a project assistant and in March 2009 I was promoted to a position of project coordinator.
I assisted in
- grant proposals development,
- organization of workshops and conferences,
- public relations and marketing,
- databases development and maintenance,
- text formatting,
- interpreting (oral and writing),
- contracting,
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- meetings organization;
- interpreting (oral and writing);
- organization of business trips;
- organization of workshops and conferences;
- development of presentations and marketing materials.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
AllWomen
Product Management
2022 - 2022
Framing Problems - Defining Value, Create Persona, Metrics and Data
Design Thinking
VPC and BMC
Minimum Viable Product + Roadmap
Story mapping for the companies
Agile Methodologies: Kanban, Scrum
ESERP Business & Law School
Master's Degree, Marekting; Digital Marketing
2014 - 2016
Courses:
- Foundations of Marketing and Digital Marketing
- Community Management
- Digital & Social Media Strategy
- SEO
- Brand Reputation
- E-Commerce
- Content Marketing
- Managing Digital Marketing Teams
IPM Business School
Certificate in Finance, Finance and Financial Management
2009 - 2010
Certificate of the Controller Akademie AG (Germany)
Business Value Assessment; Cash Management; Capital Market; Management Reporting and Financial Analysis; Financial Planning
The Open University
Professional Certificate in Management, Business Administration and Management
2008 - 2009
General Management; Human Resources Management; Finance and Information Management; Customers and Quality Management
Belarusian State University
Bachelor's Degree, Sociology
2001 - 2006
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Studies, Sociology Department; Specialist in Sociology/BA in Sociology; Major in Sociology of Management;
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
ernestodebarcelona.comJob categories
Skills
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