Digitas Hiring for Lead – Marketing Operations Job at Dubai Full Time

Digitas is a highly-caffeinated playground where brilliant minds come together to make bold, award-winning marketing. We use data-driven insights to guide our work, but we also believe in a healthy dose of spirited storytelling as we strive to transform the marketing landscape.

As Marketing Operations Manager, you will be key project or account team leader. You will be manage client liaison on marketing automation needs, helping clients to understand how customer-centric technology builds business value and operational efficiencies. A Market Operations person possesses deep expertise with marketing technologies and an operational methodology that allows us to match the client’s business requirements with the customer’s touchpoints. Sound like you? The role maintains a primary responsibility in [MARKET] working on a projector retainer basis for key regional and local client programs. The role will also support the network and other business throughout APAC on an ad hoc basis. Day-to-day, your role includes:

• Building trust-based client relationships and reacting to the dynamics of their business, by which you become their key advisor, in turn helping us to do great work together.
• Owning and overseeing your contribution to project deliverables–including collating results, writing case studies and sharing learnings with client/agency teams.
• A consultative approach to help clients and teams address the customer’s perspective, unpacking the customer journey into actionable scenarios, comms briefs and plans.
• Strong creative problem solving, both on a practical level in handling operational matters and a conceptual level in defining the campaign plan alongside strategy.
• Agility and urgency to identify test and learn opportunities and, with the help of marketing analysts, make the necessary adjustments to optimize in-flight performance.
• A backbone of technical knowledge with systems and Marketing Automation tools required to execute scheduled, seasonal and trigger-based campaigns.
• Familiarity with the digital marketing environment and keeping abreast of important marketing / CRM tech trends, updates and new products and skills development needs
• Fostering a knowledge sharing environment, enabling project teams and client end-users alike to embrace new technologies, data and touchpoints

• 7+ years of experience in a relevant CRM, loyalty or digital account management / client services capacity. Prior agency or marketing services experience is essential.
• A proven track record of managing clients, planning and executing projects including within a creative agency, marketing services business or management consultancy.
• Hands on knowledge of Campaign Management Systems and Enterprise Marketing technologies for delivering across customer touchpoints (e.g. email, push notifications, SMS, in-app) including knowledge of QA matters like opt-in rules and deliverability.
• Relevant certification and accreditation on any of the above, primarily with email marketing –experience of leading automation platforms, primarily Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Exact Target) or Marketo, Adobe Campaign Oracle Responses or SAS, SAP
• Attention to detail, personal organization and project management abilities.

-Team collaboration with excellent relationship-building and communication skills. -Knowledge of-team collaboration tools like JIRA or Confluence that can help to coordinate the campaign lifecycle is useful but not essential.