Job Brief

Head of Marketing responsibilities include developing plans to help establish institute’s brand, allocating resources to different projects and setting short-term and long-term department goals. If you’re a skilled Marketing strategist, able to inspire your team members, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you will run our Marketing department in ways that promote higher profitability and competitiveness

Reporting to

Director,  Industry Engagement

Responsibilities

  • Identify opportunities to reach new market segments and expand market share
  • Develop promotion strategies for all media including Digital, Print, Social 
  • Design branding, positioning and pricing strategies
  • Manage marketing efforts through Customer relations and Industry Engagement specialists to boost brand awareness
  • Prepare and manage annual budgets for the marketing activities
  • Ensure institute’s brand message is strong and consistent across all channels and marketing efforts (like events, email campaigns, web pages and promotional material)
  • Monitor competition (pricing changes and new products and features)
  • Develop the Institute’s strategic plan

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Marketing or Business or related field
  • Seven years of related experience in education, training, skill development, with at least 3 years’ experience as Head of Marketing, preferably within training or education industry. Experience may be re-considered for relevant PhD degree holders. 
  • Knowledge of digital marketing and social media tools like SEO, web analytics, Google AdWords and well-versed with social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn 
  • Experience running successful marketing campaigns on different platforms 
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
  • Experience in project management and budgeting
  • Hands-on experience using Microsoft Office 
  • Fluency in English and Arabic – written and spoken  

Skills and Competencies

  • Accountability: Demonstrates reliability by taking necessary actions to continuously meet required deadlines and goals.
  • Global Collaboration: Applies global perspective  when working within a team by being aware of own style and ensuring all relevant parties are involved in key team tasks and decisions
  • Communication: Articulates information clearly and present information effectively and confidently when working with others
  • Innovation and Creativity: Thinks boldly and out of box, generates new ideas and processes, and confidently pursues challenges as new avenues of opportunity 
  • Knowledge of economic and econometric methods 
  • Self-motivated and proactive, and results-driven problem solver with excellent written and communication skills 

Key to Success

  • Intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility 
  • Change leadership
  • Ability to work across silos
  • Comfortable in the space between no longer and not yet
  • Deep curiosity to learn about new trends and topics
  • Ability to develop mutually beneficial relationships inside and outside of the company
  • Ability to use data to formulate and flex communications 

Benefits

We are growing institute and offer a multifaceted and challenging function in a dynamic and international environment with a wide range of career and advancements opportunities. We offer an intensive professional development and training programs, a performance-related compensation combined with attractive social benefits.