Director of Marketing – FMCG

Job Specification

• Job Type: Full-Time
• Number of Vacancies: 1
• Job Type: Permanent
• Industry: FMCG

Job Summary

• Functional Area: Marketing
• Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Job Role: Director of Marketing
• Reporting line: CEO
• Number of direct reports: 5
• Preferred nationality: KSA nationals only
• Experience: 8-10 years

Our client is a well established poultry wholesaler based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that offers a wide range of poultry products to a variety of distribution channels.  Through growth, a fantastic opportunity has developed for a Director of Marketing to join their senior management team.  This role would be ideal for candidates with aspirations to move into a more senior managerial role.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, tactics and brand teams. This includes the external strategy and commercial interaction with key customer groups to deliver positive outcomes.
• Gathering and understanding Consumer and Channel/Customer insights through research. Use data gathered through research/analysis to develop category 4Ps strategy for Customer implementation
• Analyse business trends and clearly understand competitors’ 4Ps strategy
• Direct accountability for managing the nominated strategic brand
• Responsibility for the sales and profitability as well as resource allocation within the division.
• Accountability for all marketing deliverables, as well as management and development of marketing team members.
• Contribution towards the delivery of the annual P&L, Contribution and Sales targets
• Work with cross functional teams to lead the omnichannel and digital vision and strategy for the brand, leveraging innovation to ensure the optimal customer experience
• Responsible for embedding the implementation of omni-channel marketing tactics into the brand planning process

Requirements

The successful candidate will have the following experience/attributes:

• Significant FMCG exposure with a strong performance track record in building brands in large multinationals or other large local FMCG companies
• Strong marketing leadership with a successful track record of growing market share as well as preparing for and successfully launching new products and brands
• Creative marketing capabilities together with rigorous commercial business sense
• Track record of managing and developing individuals and teams
• 8-10 years of experience ideally within FMCG

Interested candidates please send your CV and contact details to profiles@darlingtonme.com referencing ‘Marketing Director’ in the subject line.