Field Marketing Manager

Role Overview

Pipeline and Demand Generation

• Own the MEA field marketing plan and translate global campaigns into locally relevant pipeline programs.
• Plan account-based marketing programs targeting banks, central banks, fintechs, and large merchants.
• Manage conferences, executive roundtables, and ACI-hosted client forums across the MEA events calendar.
• Localize paid media, email, and web campaigns, including Arabic-language content where appropriate.
• Coordinate post-event and campaign lead follow-up with inside sales and Sales Development Representatives.

Partner and Ecosystem Marketing

• Co-develop joint marketing programs with regional partners and manage co-branded campaign execution.
• Coordinate regional partner programs with global partner marketing and ACI's go-to-market strategy.
• Align partner-led messaging, event participation, and follow-up actions with regional revenue priorities.

Brand and Thought Leadership

• Champion ACI Worldwide as a leading real-time payments infrastructure provider in the region.
• Secure speaking opportunities, awards, and media placements at regional events and in fintech and banking trade press.
• Build regional content angles connecting ACI messaging to banking, payments, fintech, and merchant commerce priorities.

Stakeholder Alignment and Reporting

• Partner with MEA sales leadership and regional teams to align marketing activity with revenue priorities.
• Report on campaign ROI, marketing-sourced and influenced pipeline, and event performance against KPIs.
• Manage the MEA marketing budget, vendor coordination, forecasting, project plans, timelines, and stakeholder communications.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of B2B marketing experience, including at least 3 years covering Middle East field, regional, or campaign marketing.
• Experience in financial services, fintech, enterprise software, or payments technology.
• Proven success delivering events and campaigns that generate measurable pipeline.
• Experience managing partner co-marketing programs and market development funds budgets.
• Strong project management skills across campaigns, events, stakeholders, agencies, and deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across sales, marketing, product, partner, inside sales, and regional leadership.
• Knowledge of Middle East and Africa banking, payments, fintech, and merchant commerce audiences.
• Ability to translate global messaging into locally relevant propositions and customer-facing programs.
• Strong commercial understanding of pipeline creation, acceleration, lead follow-up, and sales alignment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with a global payments, banking technology, enterprise software, or financial technology organization.
• Experience planning executive roundtables, client forums, partner events, and large regional conferences.
• Experience with account-based marketing for banks, central banks, fintechs, and enterprise merchant accounts.
• Experience creating or localizing Arabic-language assets and working with regional agencies or media partners.
• Familiarity with CRM and marketing automation platforms for campaign, event, lead, and pipeline attribution.
• Experience operating in a matrixed global organization.

Workplace

• The posting includes a hybrid work designation.