Regional Head of Marketing, MENA

PMI; Dubai; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join PMI as a Regional Head of Marketing in Dubai, where you'll lead competitive marketing strategies across the MENA region, manage a team, and ensure successful product launches. With a focus on collaboration and communication, you'll play a crucial role in promoting PMI's brand and achieving marketing objectives in a dynamic environment. We're looking for a leader with proven experience and fluency in Arabic to drive our marketing initiatives.

Benefits

Excellent total package with benefits

Skill development opportunities

Access to a global network

Flexible work options

Award and bonus opportunities

Qualifications

• Fluency in Arabic required.
• 7-10 years of field marketing leadership experience.
• Ability to develop high-level marketing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develops regional action plans aligned with global marketing strategies.
• Manages regional marketing campaigns and team performance.
• Represents the region in Marketing Strategy sessions.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Negotiation

Vendor Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or equivalent

MBA preferred

Tools

Marketing management tools

Relationship management tools

Job description

Are you a dreamer, innovator, thinker and a do-er who believes in contributing to something that makes difference?

Make an impact. Join PMI.

How will you make a difference to PMI?

PMI is looking for a Regional Head of Marketing, who will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of competitive marketing strategies based on regional marketing needs. Accountable for managing resources aimed at developing marketing campaigns to achieve expected outcome in the region. Manages regional marketing team.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Develops regional workable action plans that drive regional country-level initiatives aligned with PMI global Marketing strategies.
• Supports relevant product launches and events to ensure successful market integration.
• Develops, executes, and maintains sound marketing and communication plans for the regions and sets priorities for team members.
• Evaluates the regional campaign and event performance and proposes improvement plans. Cascades learnings to the other regions and Marketing functions.
• Recommends process optimization opportunities and enthusiastically helps implement process changes.
• Represents the region in Marketing Strategy sessions including agency briefing and internal campaign development.
• Supports the MD with all needed periodic progress /status reporting against marketing plans and budgets.
• Cultivates and nurtures relationships with key media in the region.
• Effectively communicates PMI’s regional marketing plans, campaigns to engage with stakeholders and promote PMI brand in the target region.
• Must have proven experience in a similar or more senior role leading teams across MENA, especially GCC, Egypt, and Levant.

Role Qualifications:

• MUST be fluent in Arabic
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or equivalent, MBA preferred.
• 7-10 years of field marketing leadership experience
• Ability to develop high-level marketing strategies.
• Solid understanding of the technical, financial, and operational elements of the organization
• Track record of successful vendor management
• Ability to effectively collaborate across the organization as well as with external partners
• Knowledge of marketing and relationship management tools and techniques with the ability to present and apply them in an association environment and externally on senior management and top executive level.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, including demonstrated team-based operational and strategic results, with the ability to lead, retain, and progress staff.
• Experience working in an agile, dynamic, and customer-centric environment.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Proficiency in the business language- English.

What you can expect from us

We value and nurture an environment of inclusivity and diversity, and a culture of communication and collaboration. Your health, safety and well-being come first, and we believe that you should have time for your work, but you should also have time for you..

Join us and you’ll get:

• an excellent total package, with compensation and benefits based upon your geographic location.

• skill development opportunities, to help you grow now and into the future.

• access to a global network, to enrich your professional experience.

• flexible options to help balance work time and your time

• award and bonus opportunities.

The salary offer will be based on several factors, including the candidate’s demonstrated skills, qualifications and relevant experience.

Let’s help make the world work better for everyone. Apply today!

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