Marketing Manager📣 Job Ad

About the Role
Join General Trading Company (GTC) Olayan Group as a Trade Marketing Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in setting, adapting, and implementing brand strategy in the Saudi Arabian market.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the total primary sales budget, forecast, and performance.
• Negotiate and finalize annual business plans with all principals, submitting plans by category.
• Negotiate annual trade marketing budgets and maximize investments to support in-market sales plans.
• Enhance Gross Margin through improved product mix and trade marketing allocation.
• Monitor operations to ensure manpower deployment aligns with business commitments.
• Establish relationships with top 30 wholesalers and set pricing strategies after alignment with principals.
• Review retail audit data and prepare action plans to address negative trends.
• Support Sales Director in aligning databases with Nielsen census reports.
• Coordinate with suppliers on competitive activities and communicate countermeasures.
• Organize monthly meetings across major cities and spend 50% of your time on field visits.
• Manage stock levels and ensure optimal stock rotation.

Qualifications

• BA in Business or Marketing.
• Minimum 6 to 7 years of sales management experience, with 2-3 years in trade marketing management preferred.

About Merak Capital:
Merak Capital is a leading Saudi-based investment firm, dedicated to empowering visionaries and fostering innovation across high-growth sectors. With a diverse portfolio spanning venture capital, private equity, credit, and an innovation platform, we drive transformative growth in the Kingdom and beyond.

Position Overview:
We are seeking a Marketing Manager who turns plans into progress: someone who brings structure, momentum, and clarity to fast-moving teams while contributing to a collaborative and ambitious working environment.

We operate in a highly professional investment setting, with high standards, clear accountability, and meaningful responsibility. At the same time, we value energy, ownership, and the relationships that make strong teams perform at their best.

Key Responsibilities:

• Marketing Execution: Owning day-to-day marketing delivery across multiple initiatives; managing timelines, priorities, and interdependencies with confidence; bringing structure and focus to a dynamic workload.
• Team Leadership: Managing and developing junior team members; providing support, guidance, feedback, and direction; building a supportive, high-performing team culture.
• Stakeholder Coordination & Communication: Translating ideas into clear briefs and actionable plans; coordinating with internal stakeholders and external partners; ensuring communication remains clear, honest, and effective.
• Quality & Standards: Ensuring all outputs meet our brand, quality, and governance standards; identifying risks early, escalating when needed, and supporting informed decision-making; knowing when to push forward decisively, and when escalation is required.

Qualifications:

• 5-9 years of marketing experience, including people management.
• Are known for being the person people trust to “handle it”.
• You are dependable, organised, and calm under pressure.
• You pay strong attention to detail and follow-through.
• You believe strong teams are built on trust, respect, and shared wins.
• Excellent project management, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities under pressure.
• Experience in a corporate/institutional environment is highly desirable.

What This Role Is About
Our client is looking for a Marketing Manager to support and drive marketing initiatives in Saudi Arabia. This role is open to candidates with international market exposure, specifically across Europe or the Americas, who are open to relocating to Riyadh.

Responsibilities
- Execute marketing strategies to enhance brand growth.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful campaigns in a dynamic market environment.

Who You Are
This role suits a marketing professional with global experience who is eager to bring international best practices into a fast-growing Middle East market.

Ideal Fit
- Mandatory experience in European or American markets.
- Must be open to relocating to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- FMCG marketing experience is preferred.
- Strong understanding of brand marketing and campaign execution.
- Commercially minded, adaptable, and comfortable working across cultures.

This is a strong opportunity to transition international marketing experience into a high-growth market and build long-term impact in Saudi Arabia.