
Segment Marketing Manager - Emerging Market
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
ResponsibilitiesThe Segment Marketing Manager – Emerging Markets is a bold, forward-thinking leader who plays a critical role in unlocking growth through market expansion, brand differentiation, and customer engagement in high-potential, developing regions. This role is built for a dynamic and entrepreneurial individual who thrives on challenging the status quo, exploring new ways of thinking, and proactively shapes in go-to-market strategies. Success in this position requires creativity, curiosity, and the ability to turn insights into action, ensuring long-term commercial success and sustainable business expansion. This role also includes a regional product focus on SCBA for both Industrial (EMEA) and Fire applications (ME), ensuring strong market positioning and adoption.Responsibilities:
- Market Expansion Strategy: Develop and execute go-to-market strategies tailored to emerging markets, leveraging new approaches to customer acquisition, engagement, and brand positioning.
- Strategic Commercial Planning: Challenge traditional models by designing and implementing agile, future-forward commercial strategies that drive growth and profitability.
- Customer & Market Insights: Dive deep into market research to uncover untapped opportunities, emerging trends, and shifts in customer behavior that redefine how we position our products and solutions.
- Brand Building & Awareness: Localize brand initiatives to ensure relevance, resonance, and impact within each emerging market.
- Regional Product Focus: Lead marketing initiatives for SCBA, ensuring strong market positioning and adoption across Industrial and Fire sectors.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with sales, product, channels, marcom and finance teams to foster alignment, break silos, and drive unified growth strategies.
- Business Performance Monitoring: Define and track clear Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure success, analyze results, and adjust tactics or initiatives as needed to improve performance.
- Innovation & Competitive Positioning: Continuously assess the competitive landscape and leverage insights to refine value propositions, pricing, and messaging.
- Sales & Channel Enablement: Support MSA sales teams, channel partners, and customer service with product training, sales enablement tools, and content creation (collateral, digital assets, and sales toolkits).
- Brand & Event Marketing: Support regional trade shows, digital events, media planning, PR, CSR activities, and industrial lobbying efforts to strengthen MSA’s market presence.
- Execution & Agility: Implement, test, and iterate marketing strategies, optimizing resource allocation for maximum impact, utilizing the MSA Business System Principles.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in marketing ideally in B2B, with at least 2 years focused on emerging markets.
- Proven ability to develop and execute market expansion strategies in competitive and regulated industries.
- Proven track record of launching and scaling marketing initiatives in diverse global regions.
- Experience of managing product lines from support through to upskilling and outbound marketing to target market segments
- Profile: analytical, business insight and entrepreneurship
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with technical products in a collaborative environment.
- Exemplary communication, organizational, critical thinking, strategy development and project management skills.
- Proven ability to acquire and understand customer needs and to translate those needs into differential product solutions
- Results-oriented, creative to find solutions
- Knowledge of technical products, standards and regulations of the safety industry
- Product line management experience (industrial, cloud-based technology)
- Knowledge and understanding of channel business, and project-based business in the Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and Chemical, and Mining segments
- Technical sales process and/or customer-facing role experience
- Ability to understand evolving technology as a source for customer solutions and competitive advantage.
- Ability to enthusiastically communicate MSA’s vision and strategy.
- Experience with CRM systems, such as Salesforce.com
- SAP ECC experience, Power BI
- MS Office management & Excel proficiency
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Engineering
- Fluency in English
- Fluency in Arabic