Marketing Planning, Operations & Insights Executive

Client of Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 201,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Salt is seeking a highly organized marketing-operations professional to support governance, planning, budgeting, and performance reporting across the group marketing function in Abu Dhabi. The role creates accurate visibility and helps teams follow agreed processes consistently.

You will manage calendars, budgets, SOPs, dashboards, and vendor records; promote AI-enabled efficiencies; and drive improvements with data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, finance, operations, or a related discipline.
• Strong Excel reporting and data-visualization skills.
• Experience in PMO, planning, and governance processes.

Responsibilities

• Plan and calendar management across annual, quarterly, and monthly cycles.
• Budget administration including trackers, forecasts, and spend visibility.
• Governance: SOPs, templates, approval matrices, and checklists.
• Performance reporting with KPI dashboards and scorecards.
• Vendor and agency coordination, onboarding, and spend consolidation opportunities.
• Leverage AI productivity tools to accelerate reporting and documentation.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Budget planning

Data analysis

Process documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, finance, operations, or related discipline

Tools

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

SharePoint

Job description

Role purpose

Support marketing planning governance budget administration performance reporting and continuous improvement across the group marketing function The role creates accurate visibility and helps teams follow agreed processes consistently

Key responsibilities

Planning and calendar management Maintain annual quarterly and monthly plans and a consolidated marketing activity calendar Coordinate inputs from Brand Creative Digital and portfolio stakeholders and track milestones dependencies and decisions Budget administration Maintain budget trackers forecasts purchase-order status and invoice records in partnership with Finance Support accruals and committed-spend visibility and flag variances or missing information early Governance and process Maintain standard operating procedures templates briefing forms approval matrices and governance checklists Promote consistent use of project asset and document systems and record opportunities for improvement Performance reporting Collect KPI inputs and prepare recurring dashboards and scorecards Check data quality and summarise trends achievements risks and actions in a format suitable for decision-making Vendor and agency coordination Maintain vendor records scopes contract dates rates and performance information Support onboarding utilisation tracking and review meetings and identify opportunities to consolidate spend Tools knowledge and AI Maintain shared knowledge repositories and template libraries Use approved AI tools to accelerate summaries research documentation and recurring reporting while tracking improvement actions

Key deliverables

• Integrated marketing calendar
• Budget and committed-spend tracker
• Planning and governance packs
• Monthly marketing scorecard
• SOP and template library
• Vendor tracker
• Action and risk logs

Measures of success

• Planning data accuracy
• Budget tracker accuracy
• Governance compliance
• Action closure rateReporting timeliness
• Reduction in process errors
• Vendor record completeness

Qualifications

Bachelor s degree in marketing business finance operations project management or a related discipline Fluent English is required Arabic is desirable

Required experience

Four to seven years of experience in marketing operations PMO planning business operations or project coordination Strong Excel reporting and process-management skills Experience supporting budgets vendors and recurring business reviews is preferred

Technical skills

• Advanced Excel PowerPoint Project-management tools Budget tracking Power BI fundamentals SharePoint or document-management platforms Process documentation Vendor management AI productivity tools

Core competencies

• Sound strategic and commercial judgement appropriate to the role level
• Ownership of outcomes quality and follow-through
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration across group and portfolio teams
• Clear written and verbal communication including the ability to simplify complex information
• Strong prioritisation and execution in a fast-evolving environment
• Curiosity learning agility and responsible use of data digital tools and AI

Ideal candidate profile

A highly organised marketing-operations professional who enjoys building structure working with numbers and improving how teams plan and execute

Role scope

Responsibilities may evolve as the organisation and its portfolio businesses continue to grow