Ref: OP472-02

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

SAR 20,000 tax free negotiable
Dubai / KSA

Our Client is very well established in Dubai and is now opening their office in Riyadh, KSA. They are looking for someone that will work in their Dubai office and then eventually move back to KSA to work permanently from there. This could mean that you are based in Dubai for a minimum of 1 year until you move back to KSA.

What is Product Marketing?

Product Marketing exists to bridge Product and Marketing. The vision is for a central leadership team, with ninjas based in every market that can create relevant, interesting and fun content that lives on the local products and to amplify this content in any channel available dazzling and converting those that take an interest.
Centrally in HQ, Product Marketing will be responsible for creating, managing and innovating content platforms that live on the product with Engineers and Designers, as well as an overall ownership and the execution of companywide CRM and social media platforms.
In local markets talented Product Marketing Managers and Creative Content Gurus will think like publishers and hit targets like business leaders. Based on Product Developments and Brand Themes they will be writing, and creating content every day that is relevant to the people that live and breathe in their market and/or vertical, and managing the best way to spread the content they make through paid, earned and owned channels. Across the whole of our Clients company the content becomes the product, and hence the Product Marketing team ultimately become developers of the product. Product Marketeers own the targets set by the GMs it becomes their responsibility for their country or vertical to hit that target, working tightly with the Product Manager to ensure the future growth of the company.

Top Three traits of a Product Marketing Manager:

1. An inherent storyteller
2. Target oriented
3. Self-starter, happy to get their hands dirty, working long and hard days.

Day to day responsibilities may include but wouldnt be limited to:
- setting the marketing vision, strategy, and specific goals for local marketing in KSA?
- driving the awareness and growth of Clients KSA products through a content marketing approach utilising social, PR, email, paid media, and other marketing channels?
- creating/commissioning new content pieces (blogs, micro blogs, photos, events, interviews,
Infographics etc.) that will resonate with the various segments of the Clients audience throughout the KSA customer lifecycle
- supporting global marketing initiatives through localisation and targeting to specifically a KSA
audience
- Measuring effectiveness by evaluating key performance indicators against consumer, commercial
and revenue objectives?
- working closely with the Product Manager to build a roadmap for the future of the auto business of the Client?
- deciding what to do? Committing and doing what was decided to be done.

Requirements

The sort of person were looking for:

- MUST be a Saudi National
- looking for 'storytellers', maybe ex-journalists, bloggers, or anyone that has an influential following on social media channels.
- Need to have digital marketing experience, must have content focused background, campaign planning and execution experience, leadership experience.
- has 5 years minimum experience working in content or product marketing strategy and execution in KSA, preferably in the internet space?
- possesses a deep understanding of culture and business in KSA?
- makes wonderful things that people want to keep?
- can tell beautiful stories to their friends on the internet?
- enjoys talking to people in the real world?
- will make difficult decisions and pitch ideas they believe in compassionately?
- Well-traveled, enjoying new and different cultures and experiences?
- is great in leading digital and offline marketing campaigns?
- can demonstrate product marketing expertise, and the ability to contribute at both strategic and
operational levels?
- has strong written skills and an eye for creativity?
- leads by having trust, in an organized way with an ability to set priorities that solve problems
whilst taking on multiple tasks without sinking (not much then!)?
- can cope and actually excel in a rapidly changing environment?
- plays nicely with others?
- has a 5-star attitude.

Additional Duties
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed. You will be expected to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as required by the Client.

Unfortunately due to the high volume of candidate applications only the successful candidates will be contacted.

About the Company

Connect Executive Search Middle East is a full service selection and placement agency that is focused on supplying the best pool of talent to the Middle East. Offering an unrivalled level of service, our aim is to connect organisations with leading professionals through our team’s sector specific knowledge and in-depth understanding of the Middle East market.

We cover multiple sectors as following:

• Emiratisation & Government • Healthcare & Life Sciences • Legal & Business Support • OIL, Gas & Energy • Industrial and Engineering

At Connect Executive Search Middle East, finding employees the work they are best suited for, and by finding employers those candidates who are the right fit within their organization, we provide value to society as a whole. By finding the right balance between the needs of the employer and the changing wishes of employees, we will bring supply and demand closer together. It is our mission to inspire individuals and organisations to work more effectively and efficiently, and create greater choice in the domain of work, for the benefit of all concerned.

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