Marketing Communications Specialist

Summary:

The Marketing Communications Specialist will assist the Marketing Department by developing marketing and sales materials, providing public relations support.

Responsibilities:

• Social Marketing – all channels. This includes involvement with annual/periodic plan development, campaign planning/execution, budgeting, maintenance, content development, UGC (User Generated content) monitoring and agency management.
• Coordinate with writers, graphic artists, agencies and other departments to execute the advertising projects.
• Assist in developing public relations strategies that will influence public opinion or promote ideas, products and services.
• Responsible for monitoring trends of mobile device interactions and proposing, developing and obtaining approvals for suitable programs for marketing to make effective use of mobile communications.
• Proactively work with Product Marketing groups to support initial launch and on-going marketing of our products. Involves assisting with defining what is required with messaging and graphics, taking the lead in the development and production of required digital media produced within certain timelines and budget.
• Proactively work with the Sales and Channel Marketing groups in the development and roll-out of required materials to support dealer accounts. To also serve as a resource to sales for platform issues and resolution.
• Responsible for proposing, developing and managing approved digital marketing programs and best practices, to aid in customer awareness and acquisition. Providing assistance in any digital marketing projects as required.
• Develop and publish measurable KPIs related to company initiatives and metrics to assess success of digital programs and to inform future program decisions.
• Responsible for managing assigned budgets.  This involves timely processing of invoices, accurate monthly forecasting and variance analysis

Skills and Competencies:

CANDIDATE MUST ALREADY BE ABLE TO RELOCATE TO SAUDI ARABIA (MADINAH), and must have:

·         Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

·         Proficiency in Microsoft Office products – intermediate to advanced knowledge of Word, Excel and Power Point

·         Strong creative-thinking skills

·         Project management skills

·         The capacity to multi-task

·         Attention to detail

·         The ability to work in a team environment

·         Basic proficiency in Publishing/Graphic Design/Web Design applications, i.e. Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Flash, CSS and HTML/XHTML is preferred

·         Photographic skills preferred

Preferred Candidate:

·         Career Level: Mid Career

·         Years of Experience: Min: 3

·         Residence Location:  Within GCC countries and ready to relocate to Madinah (Saudi Arabia)

·         Gender: Unspecified

·         Nationality: Unspecified

·         Degree: Bachelor's degree / higher diploma in Marketing or Communications

·         Must be able to provide a portfolio of prior work.

Job Details:

·         Job Location: Saudi Arabia (Madinah)

·         Company Industry: Education, Training, and Library; Consulting Services, Travel Industry

·         Company Type: Employer (Private Sector)

·         Job Role: Sales Employment

·         Status: Full time Employment

·         Type: Employee Monthly

·         Salary Range: Unspecified

·         Number of Vacancies: 1

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