Job description

Emirates Group The Emirates Group comprises a large and diversified portfolio of well established and highly respected brands. The breadth of our activities span from airport ground handling to cargo services, travel services, hotels and resorts, hospitality and destination management alongside the highly awarded international airline, Emirates. Supporting our portfolio is a team of almost 40,000 people hailing from over 150 nations, which makes our business truly international. Emirates global network now flies to over 100 destinations across 6 continents. Emirates currently operates a modern fleet of 120 wide-bodied aircraft and it has orders worth over US$ 58 billion for 170 more of the latest aircraft, with many more destinations coming on line. In the 2007/08 financial year, The Emirates Group announced record net profits of US$ 1.45 billion, with total revenue leaping an impressive 31.8 per cent, to 41.2 US$ 11.2 billion. Within the Group's diverse range of businesses are a wide spectrum of career opportunities, all of which can be explored through the Group's dedicated careers website. With the Group now hiring over 6,000 new staff every year, essential to business success will be the ongoing employment of high quality people to join our multi-cultural team. Dubai, a tourism centre and modern cosmopolitan city with high standards of healthcare, education and leisure pursuits for residents offers one of the most desirable lifestyle locations in the world. In addition to lifestyle and tax free salary benefits, the Emirates Group also offers professional development opportunities to help employees develop new skills and grow their careers successfully. These are both internal through e-Learning and leadership development courses and external through relationships with tertiary institutions globally, including Executive education programmes at world class Business Schools and Universities. The Position: This is a senior management position that will form part of the leadership team within Corporate Communications Advertising department. It is an exciting, challenging and rewarding role that requires a committed team player and excellent communicator, able to lead a team and continue their demonstrated track record in accomplished decision making. The role is based at our head office in Dubai and requires a highly experienced senior marketer, with a minimum of 12 years experience, robust planning skills and proven success in delivering change within a global organisation. You will lead a team of brand research and advertising planning staff as well as a network of world class agencies to help chart Emirates' rise to one of the world's largest and best airlines. Salary & Benefits:We offer an attractive tax-free salary, paid in Dirhams, the local currency of the UAE.