Senior Marketing Executive

Savills is looking for a proactive and highly organised Senior Marketing Executive to support the growth of its business and brand in Saudi Arabia. Based out of our office in KAFD, Riyadh, the successful hire will act as a key link between the Saudi business and Savills’ regional and global marketing teams, helping translate wider marketing strategy into locally relevant activity and ensuring opportunities, content and market intelligence flow effectively between teams. This is a broad and hands-on marketing role with a particularly strong focus on local relationships, Arabic-language communications, PR, events, networking, content and team coordination. We are looking for someone who is comfortable operating independently and representing the Savills marketing team locally, while also being able to coordinate activity at a detailed level - whether that means organising an event, coordinating social media activity, managing company collateral, writing and reviewing Arabic content or communicating with internal stakeholders. The successful candidate does not need to personally execute every specialist marketing discipline. They will work with regional and global colleagues, agencies and external suppliers where appropriate. Their role is to understand what is required locally, coordinate the right resources and make sure activity is delivered effectively. Key Responsibilities: Local marketing coordination - Act as the primary day-to-day marketing contact for the Savills KSA business - Work closely with KSA leadership and service-line teams to understand commercial priorities and translate these into marketing activity - Coordinate with regional and global marketing teams to ensure KSA requirements are understood, prioritised and delivered - Maintain visibility across current and upcoming marketing activity, deadlines and opportunities - Proactively gather information from the business around new mandates, transactions, appointments, partnerships, market developments and other activity that can be used within marketing - Maintain marketing calendars, action trackers and project plans and ensure agreed activity progresses - Support the implementation of the wider KSA marketing strategy and annual marketing plan - Help ensure KSA marketing activity remains aligned with Savills’ regional and global brand standards Arabic content & localisation - Play a central role in ensuring marketing activity is appropriately localised for the Saudi market - Coordinate the development and review of Arabic-language marketing materials - Review Arabic content for accuracy, tone and cultural relevance - Work with internal teams, translators, agencies and other partners where specialist Arabic copywriting or translation support is required - Identify where content or campaigns require more than direct translation and should instead be adapted for the local audience - Help ensure Savills communicates effectively in both Arabic and English across relevant channels PR & media relations - Support the development of Savills’ profile within the Saudi media - Build and maintain relationships with relevant journalists, publications and media contacts - Identify opportunities for expert commentary, interviews, features and thought leadership - Coordinate local PR activity around research, market developments, transactions, mandates, appointments and partnerships - Support improvements to local customer journeys and routes to enquiry in collaboration with the relevant specialist teams Collateral & sales support - Coordinate the development and maintenance of KSA marketing and sales materials - Maintain local corporate and service-line presentations and capability materials - Gather and maintain KSA case studies, credentials, major transactions and client examples - Support the creation of mandate and property marketing materials - Coordinate Arabic versions of relevant collateral - Work with designers and regional teams to ensure materials are accurate, current and consistent with Savills brand guidelines - Maintain an organised, accessible library of approved KSA marketing assets CRM & client communications - Support the development and maintenance of Savills’ KSA marketing database - Coordinate local contact data and help ensure information is appropriately maintained and segmented - Support email, event invitation and other client communication programmes - Coordinate with regional teams on relevant CRM and email marketing activity - Help connect marketing engagement with appropriate business-development follow-up Stakeholder management This role will involve working across a wide range of stakeholders and requires someone who is confident building relationships and following activity through. You will work closely with: - Savills KSA leadership - Local service-line heads and specialists - Regional Middle East marketing teams - Global Savills marketing and communications teams - Research teams - PR ag

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Local marketing coordination; Act as the primary day-to-day marketing contact for the Savills KSA business; Work with KSA leadership and service-line teams to translate commercial priorities into marketing activity; Coordinate with regional and global marketing teams to ensure KSA requirements are understood, prioritised and delivered; Maintain visibility across marketing activity, deadlines and opportunities; Proactively gather information from the business for marketing use; Maintain marketing calendars, action trackers and project plans; Support implementation of the wider KSA marketing strategy and annual plan; Help ensure KSA activity aligns with brand standards; Arabic content & localisation tasks including development/review of Arabic materials, accuracy and cultural relevance; Work with translators/agencies for Arabic copywriting; Identify content needing local adaptation; Ensure bilingual communication; PR & media relations tasks including developing local profile, building media relationships, identifying opportunities for thought leadership and coordinating local PR around market activities; Collateral & sales support including development and maintenance of materials, case studies, translations, and ensuring brand alignment; CRM & client communications including maintenance of marketing database, data segmentation, email and event communications; Stakeholder management across Savills KSA leadership, service-lines, regional and global teams, research, and PR agencies.