Marketing Project Manager

Confidential; Doha; On-site; QAR 280,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential in Doha is seeking a Marketing Project Manager to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Marketing & Communications department, ensuring briefs are complete and work is delivered on time.

You will coordinate Brand Managers, Shared Services, external agencies, and business stakeholders to maximise output, allocate resources efficiently, and maintain quality through governance and reporting.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in marketing operations, traffic management or project management.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end marketing workflow across all brands and departments.
• Receive, review, and validate incoming marketing requests to ensure briefs are complete before work begins.
• Prioritize projects based on business objectives and agreed timelines.
• Allocate work across internal teams and external agencies according to capacity, expertise, and deadlines.
• Maintain complete visibility of all active projects and their current status.
• Develop and maintain department-wide resource plans covering designers, copywriters, videographers, digital specialists, communications, and external agencies.
• Monitor workloads to ensure balanced resource allocation and prevent bottlenecks.
• Identify upcoming resource constraints and recommend solutions before delivery risks arise.
• Coordinate freelancer or agency support when additional production capacity is required.
• Ensure optimal utilization of internal resources while maintaining quality standards.
• Facilitate project kick-offs and ensure all stakeholders understand timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Coordinate dependencies across multiple teams to keep projects progressing efficiently.
• Monitor project milestones and proactively elevate risks, delays, or conflicting priorities.
• Ensure all deliverables move through the required review and approval process.
• Maintain accurate project schedules within the department's project management platform.
• Establish and enforce marketing workflows, operating procedures, and service level expectations.
• Ensure projects follow approved briefing, review, approval, and production processes.
• Continuously improve operational efficiency by identifying workflow improvements and eliminating unnecessary administrative effort.
• Support the implementation and adoption of marketing technology and project management tools.
• Maintain documentation of processes, templates, and operational standards.
• Facilitate communication between internal teams and external agencies to ensure alignment.
• Provide regular updates on project status, timelines, and resource availability.
• Manage expectations regarding delivery schedules and competing priorities.
• Support Brand Managers in planning major campaigns, launches, and seasonal initiatives.
• Develop and maintain departmental workload and resource dashboards.
• Track project delivery performance, including turnaround times, on-time delivery, workload distribution, and resource utilization.
• Identify recurring operational issues and recommend process improvements.
• Produce regular operational reports for departmental leadership.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives through data-driven recommendations.

Skills

Workflow management

Resource planning

Project coordination

Marketing operations

Stakeholder management

Asana

Monday.com

Wrike

Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Project Management, Communications, or related field

Tools

Asana

Monday.com

Wrike

Workfront

Jira

Job description

The Marketing Project Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operational flow of the Marketing & Communications department, ensuring work is properly planned, prioritized, assigned, and delivered on time.

The role serves as the operational hub connecting Brand Managers, Shared Services teams, external agencies, and business stakeholders. It provides visibility across all ongoing work, manages competing priorities, and ensures marketing resources are allocated efficiently to maximize output and maintain quality.

As Workflow Lead, this role owns:

• Department-wide workflow management
• Resource and capacity planning
• Project prioritization and workload balancing
• Deadline management
• Cross-functional coordination
• Marketing governance and process compliance
• Reporting on operational performance and delivery

The role directly manages the Marketing Specialist within the portfolio, with the expectation that the team may evolve as the portfolio and operating model mature.

Key Responsibilities

1. Workflow & Traffic Management

• Own the end-to-end marketing workflow across all brands and departments.
• Receive, review, and validate incoming marketing requests to ensure briefs are complete before work begins.
• Prioritize projects based on business objectives and agreed timelines.
• Allocate work across internal teams and external agencies according to capacity, expertise, and deadlines.
• Maintain complete visibility of all active projects and their current status.

2. Resource Planning & Capacity Management

• Develop and maintain department-wide resource plans covering designers, copywriters, videographers, digital specialists, communications, and external agencies.
• Monitor workloads to ensure balanced resource allocation and prevent bottlenecks.
• Identify upcoming resource constraints and recommend solutions before delivery risks arise.
• Coordinate freelancer or agency support when additional production capacity is required.
• Ensure optimal utilization of internal resources while maintaining quality standards.

3. Project Coordination

• Facilitate project kick-offs and ensure all stakeholders understand timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables.
• Coordinate dependencies across multiple teams to keep projects progressing efficiently.
• Monitor project milestones and proactively elevate risks, delays, or conflicting priorities.
• Ensure all deliverables move through the required review and approval process.
• Maintain accurate project schedules within the department's project management platform.

4. Marketing Operations & Governance

• Establish and enforce marketing workflows, operating procedures, and service level expectations.
• Ensure projects follow approved briefing, review, approval, and production processes.
• Continuously improve operational efficiency by identifying workflow improvements and eliminating unnecessary administrative effort.
• Support the implementation and adoption of marketing technology and project management tools.
• Maintain documentation of processes, templates, and operational standards.

5. Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate communication between internal teams and external agencies to ensure alignment.
• Provide regular updates on project status, timelines, and resource availability.
• Manage expectations regarding delivery schedules and competing priorities.
• Support Brand Managers in planning major campaigns, launches, and seasonal initiatives.

6. Performance Reporting

• Develop and maintain departmental workload and resource dashboards.
• Track project delivery performance, including turnaround times, on-time delivery, workload distribution, and resource utilization.
• Identify recurring operational issues and recommend process improvements.
• Produce regular operational reports for departmental leadership.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives through data-driven recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Project Management, Communications, or a related field.
• 5 to 8 years of experience in marketing operations, traffic management or project management.
• Experience managing workflows across creative, digital, communications, and production teams.
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing campaign delivery.
• Experience using project management platforms such as Asana, Monday.com, Wrike, Workfront, Jira, or similar systems.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders and managing competing priorities.