Head of Marketing - RBG
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Lead marketing strategy for Retail Banking Group, focusing on customer acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth through innovative digital and traditional channels.
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Role Summary
The Head of Retail Marketing will lead the end-to-end marketing strategy for the Retail Banking Group, driving customer acquisition, engagement, and revenue growth across all retail segments, products, and channels.
This role is responsible for defining go-to-market strategies, positioning and messaging, and delivering high-impact, data-driven marketing programs across digital and traditional channels.
As a senior leader within the retail organisation, the role partners closely with Retail Business Heads, Digital, and Customer Experience teams to embed a customer-first, innovation-led culture, strengthen brand relevance, and support market expansion across the UAE and international markets.
Key Results Areas
- Determine & implement go-to-market marketing strategies across all segments & products / services to grow market share, boost sales, increase brand awareness, and meet revenue goals in key markets.
- Design positioning, messaging architecture & marketing plans across Retail products & services offering.
- Developing impactful multi-channel marketing strategies with a customer-first mindset to attract new customers and drive engagement and loyalty through Google, social media channels & web with content marketing, email, organic and paid traffic, mobile marketing, ASO, video, affiliates, and PR.
- Plan & implement all segments & products / services overall digital marketing strategy.
- Forecast digital sales performance trends and increase acquisition numbers across markets & segments.
- Monitor and track marketing strategies against key performance indicators & business metrics to increase performance and lower costs acquisition vs CPA.
- Analyze data and insights to optimize campaigns across all segments.
- Design marketing initiatives to drive high-level of engagement, loyalty & lifetime value for Existing to Bank customers.
- Monitor direct competitors & track marketing and research consumer behavior to grow customer demand for products and services.
- Develop and implement marketing strategy to enhance customer experience and governance framework aimed to improve the customers experience across all touchpoints.
- Oversee & manage marketing budget and scheduling expenditures.
- Set a strong marketing team, processes & policies in new markets.
- Launch Retail offering in new Markets Operating Environment, Framework and Boundaries, working Relationships.
- We are a challenger bank & an aggressive marketeer; this position has key responsibility to promote a culture of innovation & Customer Experience.
- Working with all Retail Business Heads, Digital Studio Head and Customer Experience Head
- Problem Solving.
- Being a strategic role, this job requires ability to think out-of-the-box both in terms of marketing strategy, people management and digital marketing paradigm shifts.
- Understanding detailed customer needs in terms of products / distribution through research and behavioural analysis.
- Ability to adjust thinking to ever evolving situations, to overcome habits and to see things & opportunities in a fresh way
- Being able to traverse a broad spectrum from strategic to tactical is key.
- Ability to work under Agile framework - collaborate across businesses, Digital Studio teams & CX to achieve business goals.
- Decision Making authority and Responsibility.
- Setting up marketing strategy across Retail segments, products & services.
- Determining acquisition targets & CPA for segments and launch of new initiatives.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
- 12+ years of banking experience or 23+ years exception experience in another marketing field, incorporating B2C & B2B digital marketing, analysis and leadership responsibilities.
- Familiarity with bank operations, sales and support environments, and strong customer focus.
- Entrepreneurial, strong profit orientation, effective team leader.
- Experience building innovative and agile teams and coaching them to their full potential.
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