Opening with a leading FMCG Group of company for their office at Dubai

Role: Operations & Marketing Lead

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Provide structured backend operational support to UK and US marketing teams

- Coordinate cross-functional workflows across Regulatory, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Brand teams

- Ensure timely execution and tracking of marketing and innovation initiatives

- Drive process discipline, documentation, and governance across projects

- Support backend execution to enable frontline teams to focus on market-facing priorities

- Lead and manage New Product Development (NPD) and innovation projects across categories

- Coordinate end-to-end project workflows from concept to commercialization support

- Facilitate innovation exchange and best practice sharing across UAE, MENA, UK, and US businesses

- Track project milestones, dependencies, and risk areas

- Ensure alignment between brand, technical, regulatory, and supply chain requirements

- Identify, evaluate, and onboard suitable third-party partners

- Manage and strengthen third-party ecosystem relationships

- Coordinate deliverables and performance tracking for 3P partners

- Ensure compliance with company standards and operational expectations

- Act as the interface between internal teams and external partners

- Act as central liaison between UAE hub and UK/US brand and operations teams

- Enable structured communication and coordination across regions

- Support knowledge transfer and best practice adoption across markets

- Align cross-market project execution standards

- Serve as SPOC for assigned operations and marketing support projects

- Ensure clarity, accountability, and response speed across stakeholders

- Provide regular project status updates and escalation visibility

- Reduce coordination gaps and onboarding risk through process continuity

Required Experience & Background:

- 8+ years experience in Marketing Operations, Innovation, NPD, or Third-Party Management

- Proven experience managing NPD and innovation projects across categories

- Strong experience working with third-party/vendor ecosystems

- Demonstrated cross-functional coordination with Regulatory and Supply Chain teams

- Prior experience in FMCG / Consumer Goods preferred

- Experience in organizations such as Dabur, ITC, or similar FMCG companies preferred

- Experience supporting multi-market or regional projects is an advantage

Core Skills & Competencies:

- Strong project and program management capability

- Cross-functional stakeholder coordination

- Third-party partner evaluation and management

- Marketing backend operations knowledge

- Innovation & NPD workflow management

- Process orientation and governance mindset

- High ownership and accountability

- Strong communication and collaboration skills

- Ability to operate across regions and time zones

- Problem solving and execution rigor

Key Success Outcomes:

- Faster cross-regional project execution

- Improved backend marketing operations efficiency

- Stronger third-party ecosystem management

- Reduced onboarding and execution risk

- Improved cross-functional alignment

- Increased operational rigor and delivery predictability