Business Development Manager
New Talents
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Ref: HP604-18
New Talents

The Role


The Role


The Business Development Manager is to build an active and vibrant partner community, facilitating internal networking, information sharing and helping partners to promote themselves in the region

Key Accountabilities:

Build the on-site partner community and encourage knowledge transfer:

• Create and maintain a partner directory (online) and newsletter
• Organise events, fairs and weekly business breakfasts
• Conduct reviews with new partners to understand their needs, capabilities and what they are willing to share with the community
• Track and measure the success of the facilitation function via partner surveys and ad hoc feedback

Enhance the market knowledge of on-site partners:

• Provide partners with latest industry research notes and reports, where appropriate
• Scout major events and festivals to pick up news of latest media initiatives and connect with other potential partners

Provide partners with regional promotion support:

• Organising press conferences for key partners
• Setting up promotional events for the media industry and public
• Identifying and leveraging existing marketing and promotion channels to help the clients partners to distribute their content / services within the region
• Liaising with event and marketing agencies
• Managing the partner promotion budget

Requirements


Requirements


Technical / Professional Skills:

• Marketing communications
• Project management
• Event management

Expertise / Experience:

• Client relationship building – 3-4 years experience
• MENA market experience desirable
• Arabic speakers is desirable

Qualifications”

• Bachelor of Marketing, Business or equivalent

About the Company


About the Company


New Talents is the first and only media-specialist recruitment agency in the Middle East that hires candidates at all levels and in every division of the media sector.

Based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, we are proud to have been associated with some of the largest names across the Middle East and the world. Our client list has included both governmental and privately-owned companies, such as Abu Dhabi Media Company, Reuters, Manazel Specialists, National Food Product Company, The Executive Council of Dubai, Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council, Rubicon, AK bank, and TwoFour54.

At New Talents nothing is ever new to us! Because of our long background in both media and recruitment, we understand every component involved in the process of media recruitment, and we are fully aware of how this industry in particular differs from all others.

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