Marketing Assistant

Job description / Role

Morgan McKinley is currently seeking an experienced Marketing Assistant to come and join a International Law Firm to be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The successful candidate will be reporting to Head of Marketing & Business, to provide all round Arabic assistance (Reading, Writing and Speaking) to the Middle East Marketing team, with a specific focus on Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman.

To work as part of the regional Marketing team to help co-ordinate and drive internal and external business development and marketing activities across all practice groups including the pitch process, PR activity, events and any other business development/marketing activities across Middle East jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities:
- Filling in of pitch notification forms upon receipt of incoming opportunities
- Requesting, progressing and assimilating information from local and global offices in order to get pitches in draft format for review
- Assistance with tracking the status and success rates of pitch opportunities
- Responding to regional and global requests for Middle East capability materials, CVs and presentations in Arabic etc
- General housekeeping of Arabic business development support materials

Media, PR and Events
- Assistance in all aspects of the PR process, interview co-ordination, news tracking
- Assist with the co-ordination and planning of practice group and corporate events when

Client Relationship Management
- Supporting the Client Focused Growth programme where Arabic is required
- Reporting back to the Head of Marketing and Business Development - Middle East on progress of CFG activities
- Online research of target clients and sectors in conjunction with the central research team

Requirements

- Fully bilingual in English and Arabic, written and spoken-
- Mature and pragmatic with the ability to communicate at all levels
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to exercise tact and diplomacy
- Able to communicate confidently and effectively at all levels
- Well organised and uses their initiative
- Able to prioritise effectively and often very tight deadlines
- Results orientated
- A professional in approach and commitment in terms of internal client care
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
- A professional in dealing with confidential and sensitive information
- Experience in dealing with a demanding workload and conflicting priorities
- Able to see delegated tasks through to completion at a high standard
- Able to work as an active team member
- Positive and adopt a "can do" approach as well as being

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.