Marketing Manager

Marketing Manager – Brand Strategy Reporting to: Group Marketing / Group Leadership Industry: Multi-portfolio Holding Company About the Role Our client, a multi-portfolio holding company operating across the GCC, is looking to hire a Marketing Manager – Brand Strategy to own brand marketing planning across a diverse group of businesses. This is a rare opportunity to shape brand direction at a group level — going beyond executing campaigns for a single entity to build a marketing playbook that spans multiple portfolio companies, each with distinct audiences, positioning, and commercial objectives. The successful candidate will act as a strategic connector between group leadership and individual business units, ensuring brand coherence while allowing space for each business to speak to its own market. Key Responsibilities - Develop brand marketing strategies and annual marketing plans across portfolio companies - Ensure brand consistency at the group level while tailoring positioning and messaging per business unit - Partner closely with group leadership and portfolio company teams to align on marketing goals and priorities - Manage marketing budgets, external agencies, and campaign performance across multiple brands - Act as the strategic link between group vision and business-unit execution - Monitor and report on brand health and campaign effectiveness across the portfolio - Identify opportunities for shared marketing efficiencies and best-practice sharing across business units What We're Looking For - Proven experience in brand marketing, ideally gained across multiple business units, a group structure, or a holding company environment - Strong strategic thinking combined with the ability to execute hands-on when needed - Solid GCC market experience, with an understanding of regional consumer and business dynamics - Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment with competing priorities - Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence and align senior leadership and business-unit teams - Experience managing agencies, budgets, and cross-brand campaign delivery - Excellent communication and presentation skills What's on Offer - A high-visibility, group-level role with genuine influence over brand strategy - Exposure to a diverse portfolio of businesses and industries - Opportunity to build and shape a marketing playbook from the ground up

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