Summary
Apple is hiring a Marcom Strategic Planner for its CEMEA marketing organization in Dubai. The role develops market strategies and translates business, consumer, channel and marketplace insights into briefs for agency partners and internal creative teams. The planner works with market, marketing and sales colleagues to support initiatives across Apple-owned and partner customer touchpoints. Applicants should have 12+ years of strategic marketing experience, strong stakeholder and storytelling skills, and business-level English; experience in the CEMEA region is preferred.
The posting
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Marcom is the creatively-led global team that oversees Apple’s consumer facing marketing. We ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications across all medias and platforms. Every day, hundreds of millions of Apple customers around the world interact with our products. We drive the strategy and creative work that provide both new and existing customers with simple, engaging and inspiring marketing experiences.
The work of Marcom CEMEA (Central, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) includes Localization, Advertising, partner Retail Experience and Communications, Interactive/Digital, Video & Motion Graphics, and Direct. It is the organization that plans, localizes, conceptualizes and implements Apple’s product and services communications.
Description
As a Marcom Strategic Planner, you play a critical role in shaping the future of Apple in your market. Your focus is on driving initiatives across the entire customer journey, through Apple-owned and partner touch-points, to grow Apple's business and deepen connection of the brand with local audiences.
Working closely with your market's Geo Lead and other Marketing and Sales peers, you are expected to maintain a detailed understanding of business priorities, channel dynamics, regional partnerships, and sales priorities. You are the strategic engine for your market: Mining insights, keeping your finger on the pulse of the local zeitgeist (across business, political, consumer, and marketplace dynamics), and translating these insights into actionable briefs for our agency partners and internal creative teams.
Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years experience of strategic delivery in a marketing capacity, whether in creative development, brand building, or business consulting
- A track record of leading strategic conversations with creatives, agency partners, and people from various internal disciplines
- Experience synthesizing and translating complex information into easily understandable and compelling narratives for a diverse range for stakeholders
- Proven track record building relationships, collaboration and influence with key stakeholders among different functions
- Business Level fluency in English for verbal/written communication
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to aggregate and spot patterns within multiple sources of data (sales, business, behavioral and media data). Equipped with the knowledge of CEMEA’s digital social and commerce landscape
- Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to effectively advocate and shepherd the strategy through a large cross functional organization
- Highly collaborative with the ability to actively engage with and consider multiple perspectives in pursuit of the best approach to the idea
- Strong commercial instincts and proven experience in research/business problem identification and resolution.
- Strong knowledge of digital devices (especially mobile phone) sales channel environment which includes carriers, eCommerce, retailers, or 3rd-party stores
- Phenomenal writing, visual story-telling, and presentation skills are required
- Spent considerable number of years living and working in the CEMEA region