Sponsorship, PR, and Events - Manager

Job description

Events Strategy and Execution • Lead the planning and delivery of corporate, industry, brand, and audience-facing events from concept to execution. • Develop event strategies that support brand building, stakeholder engagement, thought leadership, and revenue generation. • Oversee event budgets, timelines, logistics, vendors, production, guest management, and post-event reporting. • Manage event partnerships, sponsorship activations, speaker coordination, and on-site execution. • Ensure all events reflect the organization’s brand standards and strategic priorities. • Evaluate event performance through KPIs, audience feedback, media impact, and commercial outcomes. Public Relations and Corporate Communications • Develop and implement PR strategies that strengthen the organization’s reputation and market positioning. • Manage corporate announcements, press releases, media briefings, executive profiling, and crisis communications support. • Build and maintain strong relationships with media, journalists, industry influencers, and PR agencies. • Identify proactive storytelling opportunities that elevate the organization, its leadership, and its content or commercial initiatives. • Monitor media coverage, public sentiment, and industry conversations, providing insights and recommendations to leadership. • Ensure consistency of messaging across all external communications and public-facing touchpoints. Sponsorships and Partnerships • Develop and execute the organization’s sponsorship strategy in line with brand and commercial objectives. • Identify, evaluate, and secure sponsorship opportunities that enhance visibility, audience engagement, and revenue potential. • Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, partners, agencies, and key industry stakeholders. • Lead sponsorship negotiations, proposal development, rights packaging, and activation planning. • Ensure sponsorship deliverables are executed to a high standard and provide clear value to partners. • Work closely with commercial and content teams to create integrated partnership opportunities across platforms, events, and branded initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Public Relations, Marketing, Business, Media, or a related field.
• 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in sponsorships, public relations, events, brand partnerships, or corporate communications.
• Experience within a media organization, broadcaster, publisher, entertainment company, or similarly fast-paced brand environment is strongly preferred.
• High editorial awareness of regional media nuances is a huge plus
• Proven track record of leading successful sponsorship deals, PR campaigns, and high-profile events.
• Strong existing network across media, PR, events, and brand partnership ecosystems is a plus.
• Experience managing agencies, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders at senior levels.
• Arabic fluency is a must
• Preferred Qualitificaitons
• Media experience is a great plus
• Experience in working with dashboards Looker Studio or any other BI tool
• Experience in building data pipelines for reporting purposes

Skills