Senior Manager, Head of Middle East Communications

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Job Category

Marketing & Communications

Job Details

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Role Description

We are seeking a senior communications leader to drive a holistic communications program in the Middle East. The role touches all internal and external audiences including employees, customers, media and partners, helping the business confidently to tell its story.

Responsibilities

• Communications Strategy: Partner with the international and global communications teams to oversee the development and execution of a communications strategy for the Middle East that will secure and expand awareness and reputation for Salesforce across the market.
• Strategic counsel and leadership: Sit on the Middle East Leadership Team providing strategic communications counsel to the Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Salesforce Middle East, the business and act as a go-to point of escalation for all communications issues.
• Executive Communications: Oversee executive communications programs for our regional leader and other senior executives with bold and authentic narratives and internal and external engagement programs.
• Narrative and key message development: Build the company narrative for the Middle East, enable the extended teams to tell the story of Salesforce in a way that resonates in the local market, inspires our customers to think big and take action, and promotes brand love across a broad set of audiences.
• Media relations: Manage our engagements with the media and oversee our PR agency team.
• Employee communications: Partner with the employee comms team to ensure our employee programming aligns with the Middle East Leadership Team's priorities.
• Policy Comms: Collaborate with our Marketing, Government Affairs, Privacy and Legal teams in the region and lead the development of thought-leadership campaigns and engagement.
• Operations: Support the management processes around budgeting, reporting and other global alignment programs.
  
  

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years experience in (internal and external) communications roles
• Established direct relationships across the business and technology media
• Experience in representing and engaging in industry organizations
• Exposure to managing key stakeholder relationships
• Excellent leadership skills and experience in working across a matrix organisation to bring people together and deliver a strategy
• Impeccable critical thinking and no ego - we are a dynamic team and everyone pitches in to get the job done
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while multitasking, re-prioritizing projects and communicating priority updates to business partners
• Fluent in Arabic and English
  
  

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