Marketing Specialist

Ektis; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health-insurance coverage

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Ektis is seeking a marketing professional to support a small marketing function. You will translate insights from consultants and partners into content, events, and campaigns reaching clients and prospects in target markets in the GCC. The role involves coordinating client events, managing social media, and supporting internal communications.

The candidate should have 1–3 years in marketing, strong written English, Canva/Adobe CC skills, and a willingness to travel to events.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years in a marketing role, in-house or agency (internships and placement years count).
• Demonstrable experience running social media for an organisation, not only personally.
• Some exposure to events, whether organising, staffing or supporting them.
• Strong written English and a good eye for detail. Arabic is a plus.
• Confident with Canva or Adobe Creative Cloud for straightforward design work.
• Organised enough to hold several deadlines at once and flag early when something is at risk.
• Professional and credible with senior colleagues and clients, and discreet with confidential information.
• Willing to travel to events occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the firm's event programme end to end, including client roundtables and conferences.
• Handle logistics across venues, suppliers, catering, AV and travel.
• Manage invitation lists and run registrations and follow-ups.
• Create event collateral, delegate packs and branded materials.
• Write and schedule social posts on LinkedIn and across channels.
• Maintain CRM data and support proposal materials and post-campaign reviews.

Skills

Social media

Event coordination

Written English

Arabic language

Canva

Adobe Creative Cloud

Organization

Travel willingness

Tools

Canva

Adobe Creative Cloud

Job description

About Ektis

Ektis is a boutique financial services consulting firm operating at the heart of the GCC's financial ecosystem. We partner with banks, fintechs, development finance institutions, and public-sector clients to solve their most critical challenges - spanning strategy, commercial growth, risk, payments, and transformation.

Role purpose

This is a broad, hands-on role within a small marketing function that supports the whole firm. You will work alongside consultants, directors and partners, translating what they know into content, events and campaigns that reach clients and prospective clients in our target markets.

About Ektis

Ektis is a boutique financial services consulting firm operating at the heart of the GCC's financial ecosystem. We partner with banks, fintechs, development finance institutions, and public-sector clients to solve their most critical challenges - spanning strategy, commercial growth, risk, payments, and transformation.

Role purpose

This is a broad, hands-on role within a small marketing function that supports the whole firm. You will work alongside consultants, directors and partners, translating what they know into content, events and campaigns that reach clients and prospective clients in our target markets.

Key Responsibilities

Client events Core focus

• Coordinate the firm's event programme end to end: client roundtables, breakfast briefings, employee onboarding, sector conferences and sponsored exhibitions
• Handle logistics across venues, suppliers, catering, AV, delegate travel and exhibition stands
• Manage invitation lists in conjunction with the consulting teams, and run registration, reminders and follow-up so every attendee is picked up afterwards
• Prepare event collateral, delegate packs and branded materials, and track stock between events
• Attend events to set up, staff the stand or registration desk, support speakers and pack down
• Support consultants preparing for speaking slots and panel appearances, including slides and briefing notes
• Capture photography, video and quotes on the day for use across our channels
• Report after each event on attendance, client and prospect engagement, spend against budget and recommendations for next time

Social media Core focus

• Own the day-to-day content calendar, with LinkedIn as our primary channel
• Write, design and schedule posts that promote our insight, case studies, appointments and events
• Amplify thought leadership from across the firm and help consultants build their own professional profiles
• Monitor comments, messages and mentions, responding in the firm's tone of voice and escalating anything client-sensitive
• Run live coverage from conferences and client events
• Report monthly on reach, engagement, follower growth and audience make-up, with a view on what performed and why
• Track competitor and sector activity, and bring ideas to the team

Internal communications

• Produce the internal firm-wide announcements, keeping a largely client-site based workforce connected
• Support all-hands sessions, away days and internal engagement events

Brand

• Apply and safeguard brand guidelines across everything the firm issues, internally and to clients
• Maintain the asset library: logos, templates, photography, consultant biographies and credentials
• Keep proposal, pitch and report templates current, and check colleagues' documents for consistency before they leave the firm
• Liaise with designers, printers and agencies on artwork and production

Campaigns and business development support

• Support campaign delivery across email, social, web and print, including building assets, scheduling sends and updating website pages
• Help produce insight pieces, client case studies and sector reports, working with the consultants who author them
• Maintain client and prospect data in the CRM, keeping records accurate, segmented and compliant
• Assist with proposal and tender documents, including formatting, credentials and team profiles
• Pull performance figures and contribute to post-campaign reviews
• Raise purchase orders and track spend against marketing budgets

Candidate Profile

Essential

• 1–3 years in a marketing role, in-house or agency (internships and placement years count)
• Demonstrable experience running social media for anorganisation, not only personally
• Some exposure to events, whetherorganising,staffingor supporting them
• Strong written English and a good eye for detail.Arabic is a plus.
• Confident with Canva or Adobe Creative Cloud for straightforward design work
• Organisedenough to hold several deadlines at once and flag early when something is at risk
• Professional and credible with senior colleagues and clients, and discreet with confidential information
• Willing to travel to events occasionally

What We Can Offer You

• Competitive compensation structure
• Comprehensive health-insurance coverage
• A supportive, entrepreneurial culture with opportunities to grow, innovate, and develop your career