This position is for one of the largest companies in the business of pre-mix cement and other related building construction materials. They need a dynamic Sales Manager coming from the same industry with track record of handling sales of SAR 300 million plus per annum and has contacts within the projects contractors and developers. He should have successes in preparing and winning large tender pre-mix projects, and can write to and respond to customers regarding proposals and inquiries. They want a candidate who is demonstrably self-motivated, one who takes the lead, has the means to get advanced information on new projects, and prepare action plans for the sales teams and follow it up to achieve sales budgets. He can work u immense pressure under immense pressure and is revenue focused. Arab national is preferred.

For the recently incorporated marketing and distributing arm of the telecommunications industry formed as a consortium of various telecom operators and providers. Through a network of strategically located branches and sales channels throughout the Kingdom, the company operates on a multi-channel business model reaching all consumers and making available telecom’s varied products and services with the highest efficiencies at wholesale, retail, direct distribution, trade and key accounts and electronic distribution. The role of the Sales Manager is to initiate plans and programs to drive the sale of the whole range of products and services of the company across the full range of delivery channels. He will develop and be responsible for the sales budget working in conjunction with senior management and ensure that targets are achieved. Experience in sales of FMCG will be ideal, and sales of telecom products and services will be an advantage.      

Our client is the major educational companies publishing books and other learning and teaching materials for all levels. They have published over 1000 titles and some 500 covers for children and more than 300 volumes of Arabic language translation in different fields of knowledge and information and available in their bookshops. They have partnered with a major educational publishing house in the UK to produce high-quality books for learners of English in the Arab world. With education be made accessible to the mass consumer through ICT, they have also partnered with the pan-Arabic lifelong learning initiative providing online learning avenue for educational institutions in the Arab world. They need a Director of Business Development who is a member of the Senior Management Committee to formulate and implement business development, marketing and sales strategies to penetrate new markets in the Arab world. In terms of business, his goals are to facilitate the generation of year-on-year growth in sales in line with the strategic goal of hitting the SR 1 Bn mark in income by year 2015. He will research markets and products and services needed, and develop alliances, channels of distribution and marketing opportunities. To achieve the goal, he will roll out 3-year business development and marketing plans, communicate and win the engagement of all staff with the objectives, strategies and budgets to execute the plans, and embed these plans in the job objectives of key managers in the company. The position is open to marketing professionals who have been responsible for moving sales in the tune of SAR 3 Mn per annum of consumer goods, preferably related to education, office equipment and supplies, and computing equipment. Creative, innovative, keen on pursuing business opportunities. Arab National, university degree holder, excellent English language skills.

Our client is one of the firmly established jewelry houses in the Arab world and ranks among the top five largest gold jewelry brands in the world. Shiekhas, fashionistas and celebrities recognize its jewelry lines for their finest designs and exquisite craftsmanship. They are looking for a Marketing Manager whose core responsibilities include brand management, communication, product design, advertising, and public relations. He is expected to develop and execute the marketing strategy for the brand, oversee the conceptualization and implementation of an integrated “through the line” mix of communications and branding activities including e-catalogue and the hard-print catalogue, conduct consumer research to gain insights into customer changing tastes, collaborate with product development to benefit from market demands, communicate regularly with the sales force in both KSA and UAE to get feedback from the market, initiate strategies to grow gold sales, monitor and analyze product development and marketing efforts of competition, and work closely with the World Gold Council. The candidate should have at least 10 years experience in marketing high-end consumer goods in the Middle East, must be an Arab, has experience managing above- the-line advertising and PR programs, has experience working with advertising agencies as client, has strong communications abilities, is a hands-on manager, and has success stories in marketing and brand building.