4 Marketing Communications jobs in Oman

As a Marketing & Communications Manager, you are a key architect of the brand image. Your role involves developing and executing strategic marketing plans, overseeing communication initiatives, and ensuring brand consistency. With a focus on enhancing market presence, you lead a dynamic team in implementing innovative campaigns, fostering community engagement, and driving revenue growth. Your multifaceted responsibilities contribute to elevating brand awareness, customer loyalty, and overall market success.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute comprehensive marketing and communication strategies aligned with the business objectives.
• Lead and inspire a dynamic team to implement innovative marketing campaigns and communication initiatives.
• Ensure brand consistency and adherence to corporate guidelines across all marketing and communication efforts.
• Oversee the creation of compelling content for various channels, including digital platforms, traditional media, and events.
• Foster community engagement and partnerships to enhance the hotel brand's presence.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align marketing efforts with sales, revenue, and overall business goals.
• Conduct market research and analysis to stay abreast of industry trends, customer preferences, and competitive landscape.
• Manage the marketing budget, ensuring cost-effective and impactful use of resources.
• Evaluate the performance of marketing campaigns using key performance indicators and adjust strategies accordingly.
• Cultivate relationships with media outlets, influencers, and partners to maximize exposure and positive coverage.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including property managers, owners, and corporate leaders.
• Drive digital marketing initiatives, including social media, SEO, and online advertising, to optimize online presence.
• Provide regular reports and updates to senior management on marketing and communication performance.
• Stay informed about emerging technologies and trends in marketing and communication for continuous innovation.
• Act as a brand ambassador, ensuring a consistent and positive image for the hotel.

As the Marketing & Communications Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and promoting the hotel's brand identity from pre-opening through operational success. In the pre-opening phase, you will establish the marketing and communications framework, build awareness, and position the property in the marketplace. Once open, you will continue to drive innovative campaigns, enhance visibility, and ensure brand consistency across all platforms to support revenue growth, guest engagement, and long-term loyalty.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute marketing and communication strategies that support both pre-opening launch and ongoing business objectives.
• Build, lead, and inspire the marketing team to deliver innovative campaigns and initiatives.
• Ensure brand consistency across all materials and communications, in line with corporate guidelines.
• Oversee the creation of compelling content for digital platforms, traditional media, and on-property events.
• Foster community engagement, local partnerships, and brand activations to increase visibility.
• Collaborate with sales, revenue management, and other departments to align marketing initiatives with commercial goals.
• Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify trends, preferences, and opportunities.
• Manage the marketing budget, ensuring cost-effective allocation of resources.
• Monitor and evaluate campaign performance using KPIs, adjusting strategies to maximize ROI.
• Cultivate relationships with media outlets, influencers, and partners to drive exposure and positive coverage.
• Strengthen connections with stakeholders including property leadership, ownership groups, and corporate leaders.
• Lead digital marketing efforts, including social media, SEO, and paid campaigns, to optimize the hotel's online presence.
• Provide regular performance reports and insights to senior management.
• Stay current with emerging marketing technologies and best practices to drive continuous innovation.
• Act as a brand ambassador, ensuring the property projects a consistent and positive image to all audiences.
• Promote safe, sustainable practices in line with company environmental, health, and safety policies.

Overview

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are looking for an outstanding content marketing team manager to lead our content efforts and manage a team of brilliant writers and content strategists. Canonical has a robust portfolio of open source products and offers support for a wide range of open source technologies. This role is for someone who cares deeply about narrative quality and wants to elevate our brand positioning. It requires process discipline and creative smarts, leadership skills and performance-driven strategy to ensure our content aligns with our business objectives.

The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing. They would love to gain experience optimizing content processes, coaching others on their narrative skills and building brand authority. They enjoy learning and improving themselves, the team and the organization. They problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier. To succeed in this role, the candidate must be metrics-driven, highly organized and skilled at team development, capacity planning and cross-functional collaboration.

This role reports to the Director of Communications.

Location: This role is home based in the EMEA region.

• Develop and execute a content marketing strategy that aligns with our business goals, SEO and brand.
• Manage our content calendar end to end, ensuring content is efficiently produced with minimum friction and process clarity.
• Ensure content quality, consistency and brand alignment in everything we produce.
• Collaborate with our web and growth engineering teams to optimize content for search engines, building on proven SEO expertise.
• Supervise quarterly content planning sessions and work closely with content specialists, product management and marketing to optimize content plans.
• Monitor and report on KPIs for our content program and use analytics tools to identify improvement opportunities.
• Align messaging to ensure integrated campaign support across channels, working closely with our marketing, product and brand teams.

• At least 5 years of work experience in content or related roles, preferably at technology companies, with 2+ years of experience as a manager or team lead.
• Proven experience creating authoritative and engaging content. Portfolio of written work required.
• Applied knowledge of SEO, experience with SEO tools and SEO-driven content calendars.
• Excellent project management and interpersonal skills with the ability to create highly efficient processes for content production and reuse.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications or a relevant discipline.
• Someone who is passionate about technology and open source.
• A problem solver: you don't shy away from taking on challenges and see projects through to completion.
• Attention to detail and appreciation for standards: you value quality and accuracy but can adapt quickly when the need arises.

Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilization. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.

In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, please ask your Talent Partner.

Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!

Personal learning and development budget of 2,000 USD per annum

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at sprints

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.