About the Role
The company is seeking a Brand Protection Analyst to join a team dedicated to one of the world's leading consumer health and hygiene companies. This analyst will specialize in the UAE and broader Middle East markets, bringing the specific language skills (Arabic) and local marketplace expertise needed to identify infringing activity that standard monitoring may miss.
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Responsibilities and Duties
Proactive Brand Protection
- Identify, moderate, and enforce counterfeit, lookalike, and other potentially infringing activity affecting the client's brands across the UAE and the Middle East.
- Research sellers, connected accounts, and repeat offenders, recognizing emerging threats and infringement patterns, and establishing which targets deserve priority.
- Actively look for enforcement opportunities beyond existing monitoring results and own the end-to-end process of identification, quality assurance, and enforcement of infringing content.
- Conduct proactive online local-language research beyond Zeal, identifying and mapping significant sellers, connected accounts, and repeat offenders.
Local Marketplace Expertise
- Demonstrate strong familiarity with the leading e-commerce platforms in the Middle East and their country-specific sites.
- Understand each platform's requirements, seller behavior, and enforcement processes.
- Navigate regional access requirements seamlessly.
- Identify market-specific challenges and opportunities that could improve the client's brand protection coverage.
Regional Language and Market Knowledge
- Working in Arabic at a professional level, you will understand local terminology, consumer behavior, and regional e-commerce practices.
- Apply this knowledge to uncover infringing activity that may not surface through standard monitoring.
- Identify emerging local platforms, channels, seller behaviors, and market-specific threats and trends. Provide concise regional intelligence on what is changing, where the risks are, and where we should focus.
- Support country-specific research and enforcement requirements.
Intelligence-Led Brand Protection
- Use the company's Zeal platform alongside your own local marketplace research to find actionable infringement opportunities.
- Prioritize targets based on risk, scale, and potential impact rather than simply relying on volume.
Collaboration and Reporting
- Work closely with the dedicated company account team, including the Brand Protection Partners, analysts, and operational management.
- Highlight significant sellers, emerging infringement trends, and regional platform challenges.
- Provide local market insight to inform enforcement strategy and prioritization.
- Communicate your findings, progress, and recommendations clearly to the relevant stakeholders.
Essential
- Professional proficiency in Arabic and fluent English.
- Strong knowledge of the Middle East's main e-commerce platforms.
- Experience in online brand protection, intellectual property enforcement, marketplace monitoring, or a related field.
- Solid understanding of counterfeit products, lookalike products, and other forms of online intellectual property infringement.
- Comfortable conducting detailed online research and analyzing seller behavior.
- Familiarity with brand protection platforms and analytical tools.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Strong data management and interpretation skills.
- Ability to work independently, proactively identify opportunities, and collaborate effectively with both regional and global teams.
