Senior Manager, Frontline Marketing

The Coca-Cola Company; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global beverage company is seeking a seasoned marketing professional to lead its marketing agenda in Dubai. This role requires over 7 years of experience in marketing, including expertise in brand and portfolio strategies. The successful candidate will manage the annual business plan and marketing performance, ensuring alignment with growth objectives while leveraging innovative strategies. This position involves a strong commitment to excellence and requires a growth mindset.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of marketing and leadership experience.
• Experience in insight & analytics, brand strategies, and P&L ownership.
• Strong understanding of marketing disciplines including innovation and connections.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Annual Business Plan (ABP) creation and alignment.
• Own market marketing performance and track effectiveness.
• Define and execute marketing strategies aligned with growth targets.

Skills

Social Media

Brand Strategy

User Experience (UX) Design

Data Insights

Sustainability

Negotiation

Agile

Creative Strategies

Job description

EME OU (Eurasia Middle East Operating Unit) Marketing is undergoing a step-change to deliver more balanced, sustainable growth, powered by deeper consumer intimacy, stronger integration, accelerated innovation, and data- and tech-enabled precision marketing. The organization is designed to combine local relevance with scale, shift data and technology from experimentation to competitive advantage, and operate through flywheel execution with clear accountability for impact and ROI (Return on Investment). All roles operate within a tightly integrated OU-Market model, where the OU elevates and enables long-term growth + OU-wide platforms while markets integrate, execute, and track performance with speed and rigor while developing local content, partnership and experiences.

Focus, Scope, & Impact:

World-class, rounded marketing operator and strategy crafting. True E2E (End to End) marketer. Ownership of the marketing agenda of the given market. OU category leads will be more focused on LRP (Long-Range Plan) and OU-wide projects while within markets the focus is ABP (annual business plan) creation / operationalization.

• Portfolio-wide, E2E marketing scope. Lead ABP and Brand & Innovation plans development, alignment, execution & tracking (flywheel / innovation factory)
• Supported by local IMX (integrated marketing experience) team (media, content, epics SMEs- subject matter experts) but also stretch to lead these disciplines when needed. Leverage local agencies and bottlers to ensure full capacity.
• Own market marketing performance
• Define and execute the Market ABP agenda and performance through thought leadership on frontier marketing, innovation, and ensuring superior/ integrated flywheels execution enabled by system alignment and excitement.
• The team size spam from none to 3 talents depending on market size/ potential

Experience & Critical Requirements

• Significant marketing and leadership experience (7 years+), including insight & analytics, brand/portfolio strategies, innovation, complex marketing programs management and P&L ownership
• Worked in/with all relevant marketing disciplines: innovation, creative strategy, connections, design, category/brand positioning & growth strategy
• Advanced business, commercial acumen (RGM Revenue Growth Management experience is nice to have).
• Behaviors: Growth Mindset: someone that is curious, dreams big, does what is hard and has an enterprise mindset. Passionate and uncompromisable commitment to excellence and servant leadership.

Skills:

Social Media; Sustainability; Brand Strategy; User Experience (UX) Design; Experimentation; Design; Design Thinking; Influencer Marketing; Audience Engagement; Data Insights; Market Segmentation; Storytelling; Ideas Generator; Data Strategies; Creative Strategies; Revenue Growth Management; AI Concepts; Portfolio Strategies; Negotiation; Agile; System Economics; Omnichannel Interactions

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage: 15

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