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Ref: NP447-854
Job description / Role
We are currently seeking a vastly experienced Product & Trade Marketing Manager for the Middle East region for an international brand. Our client offers fantastic career progression and benefits and they are an innovative and highly motivated multicultural team. They employ only the best candidates and have strong values at the heart of everything they do. This is a very exciting position and they are seeking someone with the flexibility to travel.
As Product & Trade Marketing Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for maximising the market share and shareholder value across the full product portfolio, by defining the marketing strategies and developing brand plans in alignment the global strategies. Leading a team you will provide global insight and consumer needs and drivers to ensure all brands are profitable and executed with excellence. You will lead by example to create a clear team vision and establish challenging performance goals within your day to day leadership to obtain the overall commercial strategy.
The role of Product & Trade Marketing Manager requires the successful incumbent to provide and consumer insight, market statistics and sales data analysis to develop the brand’s profitability as well as identifying new development opportunities across your regions. Alongside this you will develop BTL communication and promotional materials and design and create promotion concepts. Working in close collaboration with business development, supply chain and the global marketing units, you will also enable the sales team with the relevant tools in order to increase the sales figures of the product categories.
Requirements
Candidates must be educated to Degree level in either a Marketing or Business capacity and those with a minimum of 3 years in a similar managerial role are encouraged to apply. Candidates from the FMCG industries will also be favoured as a preference, alongside experience of strategy change management with financial and commercial skills, organisational planning and analytical and decision making qualities. Complete fluency in English and Arabic is essential.
About the Company
Irwin & Dow was established in 2013 to provide clients with a unique and highly personalised recruitment service, providing the very top calibre of candidates across the business support and secretarial function.
We provide a refreshing approach, working in close partnership with clients and candidates across diverse industry sectors; large MNC’s, government & semi -government entities, SME’s, local businesses and in the start-up and UHNWI support framework.
Great people equal great success: all our candidates are interviewed personally by a member of the team, and we develop longstanding and in-depth relationships with our clients, understanding their corporate culture and goals to ensure a successful outcome for both parties.
Our values of discretion and diplomacy are paramount, and we are pleased to be a partner of choice for clients and candidates.