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Job Description
Work within ahighly dynamic businesswiththe energy and style of a startup
Be part ofbuilding a businessthat islaunching new products and eventsat scale
Grab an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real impact.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced confident and inspiring marketer to drive the marketing and communications for an exciting portfolio of highgrowth events in Saudi Arabia.
KSA has been identified as a key growth market and is at the forefront of product development and operational change.
You will be an important part of the crossfunctional senior leadership team playing a crucial role in the development of the Tahaluf brands and developing an executing a vision for how the group should engage with the market. Your recommendations will come from a deep understanding of the market through customer research and insight internal data and industry trends.
An accomplished marketing and communications strategist you will lead an operational team of marketers responsible for the launch and ongoing marketing of the products within the portfolio. From value proposition and messaging to brand amplification and PR data build performance analysis and channel marketing your team will own the product marketing strategies and their delivery. You will be supported by specialist agencies and internal teams to provide complementary skills and expertise.
You will support the event team in the development and launch of new products through effective gotomarket strategies sales support and price validation and testing. With growing strength in ecommerce marketing will become increasingly responsible for direct sales.
Reporting to the Senior management you will be familiar and comfortable working in matrix structures where functional and commercial leadership and responsibility are shared.
Job Accountabilities
Key Performance Indicators
- Devise and deliver innovative marketing campaigns to achieve predetermined objectives/targets
- Marketing team is motivated and appropriately skilled/trained to carry out their responsibilities
- Marketing team works collaboratively with other departments to deliver shared objectives
- Marketing campaigns are delivered within budget with spend allocations based on sound commercial reasoning
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Leadership
- Member of the portfolios management team
- Represent the Portfolio across ME and divisional groups on marketing digital data and customer insights
- Portfolio Sponsor for GDPR
- Active role in the development and implementation of Corporate/EMEA initiatives
- Work with portfolio management to develop value propositions and messaging to drive engagement and conversion
- Identify and deliver key portfoliowide projects to position products for continued growth (e.g. branding cross marketing key account management first time exhibitor experience etc)
- Understand recent customer survey feedback and apply this information to marketing strategies
- Identify risks to the business achieving marketing targets and work with the portfolio management team to mitigate
Management
- Lead a team of marketing and digital managers across a portfolio of products
- Provide guidance feedback and inspiration to the team
- Work with Marketing Managers to ensure successful delivery of marketing campaigns in line with agreed KPIs event and divisional strategy
- Work with line reports to develop skills and competencies and ensure they have a clear development roadmap
- Develop succession plan to identify top talent flight risks and guarantee continuous delivery from the team
- Champion the adoption and optimisation of marketing technology solutions
- Cultivate and demonstrate a highperformance culture within the marketing team
Campaign Strategy & Delivery
- Lead the portfolios marketing strategy. Responsible for the marketing data and digital portfolio strategy and delivering strategic show marketing
- A clear understanding of the businesss overall mission how this should be communicated through marketing and PR and an ability to use marketing technology to deliver results
- Responsible for best practice and knowledge sharing (marketing digital data and customer insights) across the portfolio and the ME business
- Take the lead and document the results of pilot projects and testing
- Develop the capabilities of marketing across the portfolio integrating technology into the strategy and tactical delivery. Ensure team are equipped with the skills to deliver a fresh campaign strategy
- Manage budgets and allocate resources amongst projects
- Demonstrate and encourage creative approaches using market intelligence and apply it to show content to create unique and engaging visitor experiences
- Work with show teams to optimise the engagement at each touch point in the customer journey by encouraging teams to introduce new ways of marketing and reduce reliance on more familiar activities that produce declining results
- Identify trends in data to encourage teams to do more of what works and less of what doesnt; navigating the move away from opiniondriven decision making to datadriven decision making
Share marketing case studies and best practice from across the EMEA business by forging collaborative relationships with marketers from across the division
Qualifications :
Personal Specification
Minimum Education Level
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Background Knowledge Skills & Experience
We are looking for an individual with the drive passion and energy to realise ambitious goals.
- An inspiring marketing and brand leader with 10 years of people management and leadership
- History of building and nurturing high performing teams
- A track record of setting and delivering to the highest standards
- Solid experience of marketing transformation and experience of running agile teams advantageous
- Experience of developing a brand vision and driving activity to realise it (PR social media etc)
- An accomplished marketing strategist with experience of developing value propositions pricing and driving agility in campaigning and execution
- Exceptional knowledge of online and offline channels and integrated campaigns
- Solid experience of marketing a mixed portfolio of products including events SAAS or subscriptions products. Experience of B2B lead generation
- Analytical with a datadriven mindset
- Experience of developing a test & learn culture
- Strong content development to support strategic goals
- Experienced in market analysis
- Good working knowledge of marketing technology and analytics tools (Eloqua Adobe Analytics Adobe Target Drupal. Google Analytics also a plus).
- A great collaborator strong in both internal and external communications
- An individual who thrives in a fastpaced resultsoriented environment
Additional Information :
*This job is 12 month fixed contract role*
Core Benefits:
Medical Insurance for individual and family
Annual leave 25 days or 28 days (for senior managers)
Manager and above School fees contribution 40000 SAR per child per year up to a max of three children
Wellbeing Benefits
Remote working on Sundays
Working anywhere 1 month every year or for senior managers and above 2 months every year
Family visa costs* (up to a max of three children)
Individual annual flight allowance* (Expat only)
International Relocation Package*:
Paid flight to Riyadh (for you and your dependents)
60 days accommodation or suitable serviced apartment from your arrival date. Alternatively if you already have accommodation in Riyadh and do not require a hotel or serviced apartment then we provide a oneoff payment of SAR 5000
SAR 2500 towards shipping goods/excess baggage costs on production of receipts/invoices
Local Relocation Package*:
Paid flight to Riyadh (for you and your dependents)
30 days accommodation or suitable serviced apartment from your arrival date. Alternatively if you already have accommodation in Riyadh and do not require a hotel or serviced apartment then we provide a oneoff payment of SAR 5000
SAR 2500 towards shipping goods/excess baggage costs on production of receipts/invoices
*If eligible
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
