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Head of Media, MENAP

City: Dubai

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Marketing

Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world's most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands. Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society. With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D. Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams. With the scale of our 2500 marketing community - alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About the role

The Head of Media - MENAP role leads the end to end media strategy, investment, implementation, and performance measurement across all channels. The role ensures cohesive media planning aligned with brand, business, and commercial objectives, while driving innovation, efficiency, and excellence across markets.

Your responsibilities

Define and own the long term media strategy for the MENAP region across all channels.
Develop full funnel media investment priorities across platforms and equity and performance executions.
Manage regional media budgets, ensuring transparency, governance, and accountability.
Act as senior advisor to C suite and business leads on media impact and opportunities.
Ensure cohesive collaboration across brand, digital, analytics, procurement, and market teams.
Lead annual media planning, budgeting, and optimization cycles.
Oversee development and delivery of annual and in-year media plans.
Ensure consistency in media architecture, audience targeting, and channel mix across all markets.
Ensure dashboards, analytics reports, and insights are actioned by agencies and teams.
Oversee relationships with global and regional platforms (Meta, Google, TikTok, etc.).
Lead the relationship with media agencies—performance evaluation, scopes, KPIs, commercial models.
Manage the media team ensuring clear direction of work, priorities of tasks, capability development, work life balance and mental wellbeing.

The experience we're looking for

A proven ability to lead, inspire, and mentor teams, driving toward success.
Strong interpersonal abilities, paired with excellent negotiation and communication skills.
Skilled in data analysis, adept at translating insights into strategic actions.
A strategic thinker, proficient in evolving insights into effective, actionable plans.
Building Business / Customer Relationships.
Educated to minimum bachelors degree level in a business or communications related subject - from a recognised University.
10-12 years of media experience, with good understanding of national media / new media experience.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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