Marketing Lead

aljeel Medical; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

None

Job summary

aljeel Medical is seeking a senior leader to drive marketing and product management across all portfolio areas, shaping long-term strategy and expanding market reach. You will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver growth and align marketing with sales initiatives.

The role emphasizes budget planning, policy implementation, and staff development to maximize performance while ensuring efficient execution across portfolios. Strong communication and strategic mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Marketing experience of 3+ years in pharma/IVD/medical devices with knowledge of annual brand planning.
• Proven experience in marketing or brand management with cross-functional campaigns.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management in fast-paced environments.
• Open to new challenges and innovative, collaborative and empathetic.
• Demonstrated project management, including strategic project management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement sales and marketing policies and procedures.
• Prepare development of sales and marketing budget and monitor performance.
• Set individual targets and motivate staff to maximize performance.
• Supervise subordinates to ensure efficient work in accordance with policies.
• Engage with cross-functional teams to translate marketing strategies into sales activities.
• Provide customer insights, market and competitor analysis to inform planning.
• Train and support sales teams with messaging and product knowledge.
• Develop promotional mix to support field force and campaign dissemination.
• Communicate effectively up and down the organization.

Skills

Marketing experience

Brand management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or life sciences

Tools

ERP

Oracle

Job description

To lead marketing and product management efforts across all portfolio areas. Shaping a long-term strategy, driving market expansion, and partnering closely with cross‑functional teams to deliver business growth.

2. ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates in the development and implementation of sales & marketing policies, processes, and procedures to ensure all relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled.
• Prepares the development of sales & marketing budget and monitors financial performance versus the budget to ensure alignment.
• Manages the effective achievement of objectives by setting individual targets, developing, and motivating staff to maximize subordinate performance.
• Supervises the activities and work of subordinates to ensure that all work within a specific area is carried out in an efficient manner and in compliance with the set policies, processes, and procedures.
• Setting strategic plans for entitled therapeutic categories including pipeline selection, follow up on BD projects.
• Achieving categories (strategic areas) sales objectives.
• Provide customer insights, market / competitor analysis, and marketing effectiveness support for better planning, to identify opportunities and trends and improve decision making in marketing / sales areas.
• Engage with sales/commercial leadership to ensure transition of marketing strategies into sales activities to ensure full support and integration.
• Train and support sales/commercial teams with compelling messaging, value propositions, campaign materials, and product knowledge to ensure successful execution in the field.
• Develop promotional mix that support field force to drive tactical plan execution and disseminate portfolio message effectively.
• Communicate up, down, and laterally in an effective manner.

3. QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Life Sciences, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Strong marketing experience (+3 years in marketing) in any pharmaceutical, IVD or Medical Devices industries with good knowledge and deep understanding of Annual Brand Planning.
• Proven experience in marketing, brand management, or a related field, with a track record of developing and executing marketing strategies and campaigns through a cross-functional team
• Possesses strong communication and stakeholder management skills, producing high-quality, data-driven, and creative solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Open to taking on new challenges and learning new skills, while being collaborative, curious, empathetic, open-minded, and innovative.
• Demonstrated project management skills, including experience in strategic project management.

4. PREFERRED SKILLS AND COMPENETNICES:

• Experience using different systems of budget management (ERP, ORACLE, …etc.)
• Sales and/or Marketing experience within respiratory and ID fields.
• Experience in Anti-infectives therapies and/or respiratory field. (General Medicine)
• Experience in Cardiovascular, Dental field and surgical interventions.