Marketing Planning, Operations & Insights Executive

Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt in Abu Dhabi is seeking a meticulous Marketing Operations Specialist to coordinate planning, governance, budgeting, and performance reporting across the group marketing function. You will ensure accurate visibility, track milestones, and promote standard processes and templates.

As part of the team, you will manage calendars, budgets, vendor records, and dashboards, using Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI fundamentals. Strong English communication and stakeholder collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, finance, operations, or a related discipline.
• Fluent English is required; Arabic is desirable.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Maintain SOPs, templates, briefing forms, approval matrices, and governance checklists.
• Promote consistent use of project, asset, and document systems, and record opportunities for improvement.
• Collect KPI inputs and prepare recurring dashboards and scorecards.
• Check data quality and summarise trends, achievements, risks, and actions for decision-making.
• Maintain vendor records, scopes, contract dates, rates, and performance information.
• Support onboarding, utilisation tracking, and review meetings, and identify opportunities to consolidate spend.
• Maintain shared knowledge repositories and template libraries.
• Use approved AI tools to accelerate summaries, research, documentation, and recurring reporting, while tracking improvement actions.

Skills

Excel

Reporting

Process management

Stakeholder management

Budget tracking

Vendor management

AI productivity tools

Education

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

Tools

Power BI

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Excel

Project-management tools

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 rate
• Reporting 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.