Marketing Planning, Ops & Insights Leader

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

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.