Marketing Business Partner

Job description / Role

Description

Marsh UAE is seeking candidates for "Marketing Business Partner - Specialist" to join our growing marketing team based in Dubai office! Reporting to the Middle East Marketing & Communications Leader, this role provides the day-to-day coordination, stakeholder management, and delivery discipline required to bring regional strategy to life across markets. The role is also accountable for advancing Marshs thought leadership agenda, ensuring the business is visible, credible, and differentiated through compelling storytelling, executive visibility, and targeted amplification.

The Marketing Manager, UAE plays a pivotal role in translating regional marketing priorities into high-quality, commercially relevant execution across Marsh and its operating entities.

Whats in it for you

• A company culture founded in integrity, responsible teamwork and experience
• A fast-paced dynamic environment where you will interface with colleagues across our business and with senior leadership
• Corporate dedication to fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and diverse culture at work that hears every voice

What you can expect

• Collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders at various levels around the world
• Be an integral part of streamlining processes and identifying efficiencies
• Communicate with key stakeholders and leadership

We will count on you to

• Translate regional priorities into clear market-level plans, timelines, and deliverables across key businesses and geographies
• Support annual and quarterly planning by gathering market inputs, identifying local opportunities, and ensuring activity remains aligned to commercial priorities
• Coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups, including regional CEOs, to ensure campaigns and initiatives are sequenced effectively and delivered with pace

• Drive strong end-to-end campaign management and governance, ensuring all integrated campaigns are planned, executed, tracked, and measured consistently
• Lead execution of integrated campaigns across digital, content, events, internal communications, and stakeholder engagement
• Manage day-to-day delivery against agreed timelines, ensuring quality control, clear ownership, and strong follow-through on actions
• Partner with internal teams and external suppliers to keep activity moving and remove barriers to delivery

• Own the delivery of the thought leadership pipeline, ensuring insight-led content is developed, approved, and amplified in line with regional priorities
• Work with business leaders and subject matter experts to shape topics that strengthen market relevance, commercial positioning, and executive credibility
• Support the creation and promotion of articles, reports, videos, and other thought leadership assets that build Marshs reputation in market
• Use thought leadership as a practical business tool: tell a compelling story, open doors to client conversations, and reinforce Marshs point of view in the market

• Lead planning and delivery support for the strategic event calendar throughout the year, ensuring each event is commercially relevant, well-coordinated, and executed to a high standard
• Manage relationships with local-market CEOs, local business leaders, and regional stakeholders to keep priorities aligned and decision-making efficient
• Provide responsive support to market teams, ensuring senior stakeholders are well prepared with the right messaging, materials, and follow-up activity
• Build internal understanding of marketing priorities through briefings, education sessions, and practical support that helps market the marketing and strengthens adoption across the business

• Maintain strong discipline around campaign tracking, reporting, and measurement
• Ensure CRM and marketing tools are used consistently and accurately to support visibility and decision-making
• Track performance of campaigns, events, and thought leadership activity, and use insights to improve future planning
• Support clean workflows, clear approvals, and reliable governance across the marketing process

• Ensure all marketing outputs reflect Marsh brand standards, tone of voice, and governance requirements
• Maintain a strong review and approval process across content, presentations, campaigns, and event materials
• Support consistency across Marsh, MMB, and Mercer while adapting activity appropriately for each audience and market

What you need to have

• 8 to 10+ years of experience in marketing, communications, or a related business development environment, ideally within professional services, consulting, or financial services
• Strong experience delivering integrated campaigns, events, content, and stakeholder engagement activities across complex, matrixed environments
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and senior stakeholders with professionalism and judgment
• Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills, with a strong eye for quality and detail
• Comfortable working with thought leadership content, executive messaging, and commercially sensitive topics
• Strong project management and coordination skills; able to keep workstreams moving and maintain momentum across teams
• Experience with marketing tools, content workflows, and digital channels is highly desirable
• Fluent in Arabic. English language proficiency is desirable. Emirati candidates will be evaluated

What makes you stand out

• Collaborative and service-oriented, with a strong focus on building trust and enabling others to succeed
• Commercially aware and proactive, with the ability to think ahead and anticipate what is needed
• Highly organized, responsive, and dependable in a fast-paced environment
• Confident communicator who can work credibly with senior leaders and subject matter experts
• A natural relationship builder who can hunt for opportunities, join the right conversations, and create momentum across the business
• Adaptable and solutions-focused, with the ability to flex across businesses and priorities as required
• Able to bring strategy, structure, and execution together in a way that makes the role feel visible, valuable, and commercially relevant

What success looks like

• The role contributes to strong market momentum, including measurable pipeline and revenue impact for Marsh
• The role brings strategy, structure, and execution to the regional agenda in a way that supports growth and commercial outcomes
• The regional business and Middle East Marketing & Communications Leader are well supported with clear, dependable execution across the portfolio
• Campaigns, events, and thought leadership are delivered on time, on brand, and to a consistently high standard
• Stakeholders view the role as a trusted partner who improves pace, quality, and coordination
• Thought leadership becomes a visible and effective pillar of the regional marketing agenda

About Marsh

Marsh is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.

Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one "anchor day" per week on which their full team will be together in person.