Marketing Associate

Role overview

Social media, brand, and agencies

• Own day-to-day social media activity and develop content calendars aligned with launches, trends, and commercial priorities.
• Identify organic growth opportunities, monitor performance, and recommend improvements based on consumer response.
• Work with creative teams and agencies on social-first content and campaign assets.
• Brief and manage creative, social, digital, PR, influencer, and other marketing agencies; coordinate timelines, deliverables, meetings, and quality.
• Develop brand ideas, campaigns, activations, and local consumer communication for UAE and GCC markets.
• Research competitors, category trends, consumer behavior, and emerging brands; support brand tone and visual language.

Commerce, creative, and execution

• Plan campaigns and visibility with e-commerce and quick-commerce platforms; coordinate briefs, assets, placements, and promotions.
• Support distributor and retail marketing, co-marketing, launches, sampling, events, retail visibility, and Joint Business Plan initiatives.
• Coordinate designers, video editors, photographers, vendors, and creative partners; develop briefs and review creative output.
• Help produce social creatives, banners, product communications, presentations, retailer assets, POSM, and campaign materials.
• Manage multiple projects, timelines, approvals, teams, vendors, platforms, and partners to deliver assets on time.
• Track marketing budgets, planned versus actual spending, campaign performance, KPIs, agency delivery, and competitor activity; report insights.

Required experience and qualifications

• Two to four years of relevant experience in marketing, brand management, social media, digital marketing, or an integrated marketing role.
• Practical social media and content marketing experience; experience managing creative, social, or digital agencies and external partners.
• Good understanding of social media trends and organic growth strategies.
• Working knowledge of Google and Meta advertising and performance marketing concepts; hands-on performance marketing expertise is not required.
• Understanding of marketing budgets, P&L, and campaign economics; strong creative sensibility and project and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Experience with e-commerce, quick-commerce, or marketplace companies is highly preferred.
• FMCG, food and beverage, packaged foods, confectionery, snacking, or consumer-brand experience is preferred; UAE/GCC experience is preferred.

Candidate profile and performance

• The candidate should be entrepreneurial, action-oriented, organized, and comfortable taking ownership in a fast-paced environment.
• The role values creative thinking, clear communication, commercial awareness, digital fluency, and hands-on execution.
• Performance measures include social growth and engagement, content quality, timely campaign execution, partner collaborations, agency delivery, budget adherence, and campaign efficiency.

Opportunity

• The role offers early-stage brand-building responsibility and exposure to strategy, social media, creative development, e-commerce, retail partnerships, agencies, and commercial growth across the region.

Pay

• Pay is AED 5,000–6,000 per month.

Work location

• Work location is in person.