Marketing Operations Officer

eSense; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A marketing solutions company in the Riyadh Region is seeking a Marketing Operations & Budgeting Officer. Responsibilities include budget monitoring, managing vendor relationships, and executing ground activations and events. The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's degree in Business or related fields and has 2-3 years of experience in marketing operations and budgeting, along with strong analytical skills and familiarity with MS Office tools.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience in marketing operations.
• Experience in budgeting.
• Experience managing events.

Responsibilities

• Monitor marketing budgets across initiatives.
• Manage relations with marketing vendors and partners.
• Execute all ground activations and events.

Skills

Marketing operations mindset

Strong analytical skills

Vendor coordination

Financial planning

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, or related field

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Role Purpose

The Marketing Operations & Budgeting Officer ensures that our marketing is actually happening. It’s where marcoms operations run effectively, efficiently, and in time. The role involves monitoring the budget, supporting campaign performance tracking, and ROI measurement, maintaining the right spending; building the right business vendors and managing vendor coordination, managing events and ground activations.

Key Responsibilities

Budgeting & Financials

• Monitor marketing budgets across initiatives.
• Track spending across campaigns, events, vendors, and events.
• Prepare cost reports, billing, payments, through spending dashboards.
• Ensure alignment with marcoms and finance.

Vendor & Partner Management

• Manage relations with marketing vendors, agencies, production partners, and media suppliers.
• Evaluate proposals, cost, and deliverables.
• Support contract & invoicing coordination with Finance.

Activations & Ground Activities

• Manage and execute all ground activations.
• Prepare annual schedule of all relevant activities, forums, conferences, & exhibitions taking place.
• Manage bookings, fabrications, productions, and people to run events and activations.
• Manage sponsorships and collaborations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, or related field.
• 2-3 years experience in marketing operations, budgeting, and events.
• Good in MS office, reportting, and dashboards.
• Marketing operations & governance mindset.
• Strong analytical, financial planning & reporting capability.
• Vendor & procurement coordination.
• Structured, organized, and process-driven.
• High accountability & ownership.