Senior Associate - Brand, Marketing and Communications

Job description / Role

As a sophisticated global business, EY understands the importance of maintaining a strong, reliable brand. As a Senior Associate, you'll be right at the heart of that goal, supporting us in maintaining and improving our brand identity to support market-leading growth. It's a great role, where you'll see opportunities to influence our brand in a big way right from the start.

The opportunity

The Jeddah office based BMC Senior Associate will be responsible for supporting the KSA Market Segment Leader with the development and delivery of Communications and Engagement plans across the 3 offices in KSA and help with the execution of Brand and Go-to-Market programs at the office level in Jeddah. This also includes supporting on the delivery of other Jeddah centric external priorities, initiatives and events.

Success in this role will be the delivery of comprehensive, world-class Brand, marketing and communications programs that deliver sustainable, measurable results.

Your key responsibilities

Communications & Engagement :

- Work closely with MENA Communications & Engagement leader to develop and manage engagement programs for our people; proactively identify their diverse needs
- Build the overall MS communications strategy and business plans
- Develop and maintain an annual internal communications plan
- Create content for Monthly office newsletter, internal announcements and campaigns
- Create and share content with MENA BMC for publication in the EY Home Page
- Support with Employee Engagement Programs

Marketing (go-to-market):

- Work closely with MENA Marketing Leader with promoting regional/global thought leadership and buyer programs + drive any local thought leadership initiatives
- On ground support to KSA MS Marketing team
- Promote KSA events internally

Overall BMC:

- Monthly catch up with MENA BMC to update on overall BMC activity
- Work closely with MENA BMC on any budget related updates
- Serve as part of the MENA BMC team to drive performance goals and deliver an integrated BMC plan
- Develop and lead feedback loops that help inform the MENA BMC team and ensure relevancy of messaging
- Develop methods for supporting innovation and change
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge on brand, marketing, communications trends and long-term implications for EY
- Manage relationships with key stakeholders
- Pursue projects that are related to higher-level, strategic long-term objectives
- Help to prioritize projects to ensure alignment with key areas of focus for BMC and the business
- Drive understanding, motivation and stakeholder value

Requirements

Skills and attributes for success

- Demonstrate consensus-building skills in a dynamic environment
- Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and Arabic
- Deliver on EY and MENA BMC strategic priorities; align communications with EY's go-to-market and performance agendas and revenue goals; communicate the BMC value proposition
- Proficiency with popular social media tools like LinkedIn, Twitter, FB and Instagram.
- Enable and demonstrate innovative thinking and inspire innovative action; leverage communications to inspire others
- Be a point of integration; enable knowledge sharing throughout BMC and EY; be able to synthesize information from others; connect when initiating, developing and implementing marketing and communications projects; help the business address its big issues; serve as an organizational connector
- Provide tactical guidance to realize the BMC vision; maintain comprehensive working knowledge about the change process and implementation best practices
- Demonstrate the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to establish and refine the strategies that drive brand as well as organizational performance and add value to the business
- Demonstrate knowledge, skills and abilities concerning global business fundamentals, business models, ethics, competitive analysis and cross-cultural sensitivities

To qualify you must have

- Substantial brand, marketing and communications experience
- Experience delivering markets communications and engagement programs within a people organization with proven and demonstrable results
- Proven ability to influence and build collaborative relationships with senior-level stakeholders
- A degree or post graduate in a related discipline

What we look for

We are looking for people who can combine, great listening skills, collaboration, influencing and commercial acumen. Being able thrive in an ever changing, diverse, multi-cultural environment where we expect exceptional quality and show passion for your work will set you up for success.

What working for EY offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. We also offer:

- Exposure to some of the greatest colleagues and clients in the industry
- Support, feedback and coaching in a culture that values operational excellence
- Career potential to grow both within the MENA region and globally
- A culture that will encourage you to grow you skills and strengths for your own betterment as well as that or EY

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we're using the finance products, expertise and systems we've developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we'll make our ambition to be the best employer by 2020 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Build your legacy with us.

Apply now.

About the Company

EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

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The MENA practice of EY has been operating in the region since 1923. For over 95 years, we have grown to over 7,500 people united across 21 offices and 16 countries, sharing the same values and an unwavering commitment to quality. As an organization, we continue to develop outstanding leaders who deliver exceptional services to our clients and who contribute to our communities. We are proud of our accomplishments over the years, reaffirming our position as the largest and most established professional services organization in the region