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About the Role
Own the operational and commercial coordination of regional marketing activities, with emphasis on negotiating and managing vendor Marketing Development Funds (MDF), delivering partner-facing events and campaigns, controlling costs, and ensuring accurate reporting and timely recovery of eligible marketing claims.
Responsibilities
- Negotiate vendor marketing contributions; prepare joint activity plans and funding proposals; secure approvals, maintain MDF trackers, collect proof of execution; submit and follow up on claims.
- Coordinate and arrange roundtables, workshops, roadshows, webinars and industry events from brief to post-event report, manage invitations, registration, venues and on-site delivery.
- Obtain competitive quotations; negotiate pricing; track purchase orders, commitments and actual spend; reconcile costs with Finance and prevent unapproved overruns.
- Align activity plans with vendors, country sales teams, channel partners and external agencies; maintain timelines, owners and approvals.
- Coordinate approved email invitations, campaign assets, landing pages and follow-up communications with internal or outsourced specialists.
- Report attendance, leads, sales follow-up, pipeline contribution, vendor feedback and MDF recovery; maintain a clear activity dashboard.
Requirements
- 2–4 years’ experience in marketing coordination, channel marketing, event operations or vendor-facing commercial support; IT/software distribution experience preferred.
- Proven experience in marketing, especially digital marketing.
- Strong knowledge of marketing platforms.
- Good understanding of branding, communication, and campaign management.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects.
- Working knowledge of MDF processes, vendor approvals, quotations, claims documentation and event supplier management.
- Confident business communication and practical negotiation skills; strong attention to detail, budgeting and follow-through.
- Comfortable using Excel, PowerPoint, CRM and project trackers; ability to coordinate multiple vendors and countries.
- Excellent English and Arabic. Other relevant regional languages are advantageous.
Skills
- Marketing coordination
- Channel marketing
- Event operations
- Vendor-facing commercial support
- Digital marketing
- Marketing platforms
- Branding
- Communication
- Campaign management
- Organizational skills
- Project management
- MDF processes
- Vendor approvals
- Quotations
- Claims documentation
- Event supplier management
- Business communication
- Negotiation skills
- Attention to detail
- Budgeting
- Follow-through
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- CRM
- Project trackers
- Vendor coordination
- Country coordination
- English
- Arabic
Experience Level
- 2-4 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing or related field
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Multinational exposure across leading cybersecurity brands
- Health insurance, annual leave, and annual travel allowances as per the UAE labour law
- Access to training, certifications, and career growth programs