Strategic Responsibilities
- Develop and own marketing strategies for Darna Rewards and Live Aldar, including separate annual plans, acquisition and retention targets, and incremental revenue goals.
- Define the positioning, differentiation, and brand identity for Live Aldar and Darna Rewards, ensuring each serves its target audience while reinforcing the broader Aldar loyalty ecosystem.
- Own the marketing P&L, overseeing budget planning, allocation, and financial forecasting.
- Establish governance for how Live Aldar and Darna Rewards interact — cross-member journeys, shared campaigns, referral mechanics, and co-benefit offers where commercially viable.
- Evaluate and prioritize marketing initiatives based on ROI, business impact, and strategic objectives alignment.
- Develop and deliver multi-channel integrated loyalty campaigns in collaboration with key stakeholders, ensuring effective and efficient execution of the marketing plan, while also supporting ad-hoc campaign requests and planning as needed.
- Conceptualize and execute strategic loyalty points offers in partnership with internal and external teams, leveraging data analytics and KPIs to optimize acquisition, activation, and retention.
- Drive higher activation rates and incremental revenue by implementing and refining lifecycle marketing programs and enhancing BAU campaign targeting.
- Partner with marketing leaders across Real Estate, Retail, and other verticals to design and deliver integrated loyalty marketing plans, ensuring alignment with broader marketing strategies and key asset-level calendars.
- Owns the loyalty program brand ensuring brand cadence across all touch points of Aldar, Joint Ventures and Third-party partnerships.
Functional Responsibilities
- Drive lifecycle marketing programs for Live Aldar and Darna Rewards with tailored segmentation strategies, offer architectures, and engagement cadences suited to each program's member profile.
- Own content, communications, and performance marketing across all paid, owned, and earned channels, ensuring brand-appropriate tone and relevance for each audience.
- Build personalized customer journeys — spanning messaging, offers, and engagement timing — underpinned by data-driven lifecycle strategies across in-store and online touchpoints.
- Continuously improve key customer metrics (retention, acquisition, conversion, cross-sell, lifetime value, and ROI) through targeted creative communications aligned to defined member segments and campaign objectives.
- Manage annual program budgets to maximize profitability, and ensure all activities comply with legal, regulatory, and data privacy requirements.
- Partner with data and technology teams to establish KPIs, dashboards, and attribution models that track performance across both programs.
- Min of 10+ years of relevant experience in loyalty, customer lifecycle, or strategic marketing. A track record in retail industries is highly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or Business Administration.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to build relationships cross-functionally and to influence and build consensus among teams.
- Proven experience in defining marketing strategies and leading marketing campaigns which have delivered growth and positive ROI at strategic program level and campaign level.
- Track record of driving results through cross-functional collaboration
- Deep understanding of business objectives, advanced analytics, and the ability to develop and fund actionable plans to drive results.
- Skilled in leveraging data-driven marketing strategies, measuring ROI, and applying complex analytical methods.
- Proven understanding of paid media and performance marketing channels (search, social, programmatic) sufficient to direct strategy and evaluate agency/team outputs across both programs.