Overview & Opportunity
The institute, the audit findings and the five-year market case
SAR 207,000 incl. VAT · 5 years
Technical & Commercial Proposal · Five-Year Digital Marketing Strategy · 06 Aug 2026

The Kingdom is building the factories. FIP builds the people who run them.

Food Industries Polytechnic (FIP) has the strongest offer in its category — fifteen years of delivery, ISO accreditation, and named diploma tracks with Almarai, SABIC and NADEC that no peer institute can copy. It also has a bottom-quartile digital operation: no measurement layer, no employer path, and a 17.7 MB homepage. MAZ NEXA proposes a five-year digital marketing strategy (2026–2031) that builds two measurable funnels — one for employer partnerships, one for trainee enrolment — and follows them through a full cycle, from first click to a graduate placed and retained.

Engagement at a glance

ClientFood Industries Polytechnic
EngagementFive-Year Digital Marketing Strategy
Strategy horizon5 years · 2026–2031
Partnership5 strategic phases
Delivery4 to 6 weeks
LanguagesArabic & English
Prepared06 August 2026
Valid30 days
ContactIbrahim Al Suwailem
Executive summary

The objective, the challenge and the opportunity.

01

Objective

Build two measurable funnels for FIP — one for employer partnerships, one for trainee enrolment — on a measurement layer that does not exist today, then compound them across five years: from the first countable number in 2026 to self-sustaining demand by 2031.

02

The challenge

FIP has the strongest offer in its category and a bottom-quartile digital operation. Its employer proposition — the most commercially valuable message it owns — sits behind a generic button on a 17.7 MB page.

03

The opportunity

A dated compliance deadline, 9 to 12 percent annual growth in food manufacturing capital spend running into the early 2030s, and named diploma tracks with Almarai, SABIC and NADEC that no peer can copy. The window is open for years, not months.

The business problem

A category-defining offer, carried by a digital operation that can neither measure nor retarget.

Fifteen years of delivery, ISO 29993 and ISO 45001, an American Institute of Baking affiliation and named programmes with Almarai, SABIC and NADEC — all carried by a site that cannot measure and cannot retarget. There are four root causes:

Root cause 01

No measurement layer

GA4 is the only tag on the site. No GTM and no Meta, TikTok, Snapchat or LinkedIn pixel, so no visitor can ever be retargeted.

Impact: every media riyal spent today is bought once and never used again.
Root cause 02

No employer path

The localization proposition, the most commercially valuable message FIP owns, has no landing page, no lead form and no tracked conversion.

Impact: employer leads today count zero — because there is nothing to count.
Root cause 03

A 17.7 MB homepage

14.4 seconds to load, 86 percent of it images served as PNG. Paid mobile clicks are lost before the page paints.

Impact: a share of every paid click is bought and never arrives at the content.
Root cause 04

Two brands, one institute

Instagram still runs on the old DFP_SA handle and LinkedIn on a dairy food polytechnic slug.

Impact: branded search splits across two identities and the authority of each is lost.
Sector & market

A sector expanding by policy, not by market cycle.

Saudi food manufacturing is being deliberately grown under a national food security mandate. Capital is already committed, every new production line converts directly into a technical hiring requirement, and a rising share of those hires must be Saudi.

USD 38.4B
Saudi food & beverage market value in 2026
USD 50.4B
projected by 2031 — a 5.6% compound rate
USD 70B
directed into processing plants across the Kingdom
9–12%
annual growth in food manufacturing capital spend
70–80%
Local production target
The share of food consumption Vision 2030 targets producing inside the Kingdom.
30–50%
Saudization in manufacturing
The required band, depending on activity and company size.
49
Competing partnership institutes
Chasing the same Saudi youth and an overlapping employer set, including a new National Industry Academy.

The market window maps exactly onto this strategy's horizon.

Every figure above is measured from 2026 to 2031 — precisely the five years this strategy plans for. Capital spend leads hiring by 18 to 36 months, so plants committing capital in 2026 hire in 2028 and 2029, which are years three and four of this plan. A twelve-month plan expires before the demand that today's capital is funding ever arrives.

The binding constraint is not capital.

Capital is available and policy is supportive. The scarce input is qualified Saudi technical staff — the single thing FIP produces. Capital spend leads hiring by 18 to 36 months, so today's investment is tomorrow's hiring pipeline.

Sources: Mordor Intelligence, IndexBox equipment data, and Vision 2030 sector reporting.

The localization deadline

A threshold employers cannot negotiate with or defer.

26 APR 2026

A new Nitaqat phase

Raises thresholds across most activities and is designed to localize more than 340,000 private sector jobs.

400+

The addressable employer base

Employing entities already working with strategic partnership institutes. Company-level target lists are a first-month deliverable, not an assumption in this document.

SFDA

Regulation tightens in parallel

SFDA requirements make certified food safety competence a condition of operation rather than an advantage. HACCP staff are now required.

The model: training and hiring are one process, not two.

FIP does not train people and then look for them a job. Every trainee is recruited against a real vacancy an employer has already identified. A needs study establishes which technical capability the employer is missing before any contract is signed, and the employer helps design the programme so the graduate arrives trained on the line they will actually run. A two-and-a-half-year programme, three intakes a year, with the job commitment agreed before training starts.

Digital audit

A digital presence substantial in content and weak in execution.

FIP publishes 38 programmes, 60 courses and roughly 235 URLs across two languages — more depth than most peers — but almost nothing that lets any of it be measured or found.

Performance strengths

  • Bilingual parity across pages and courses — 24 and 23 pages, 30 and 30 courses. Rare in the sector and expensive to build later.
  • A .edu.sa authority domain most peer institutes cannot obtain.
  • Clean crawl directives — robots.txt correctly permissive and a healthy sitemap index segmented by post type.
  • An active newsroom, genuinely maintained, last updated 29 July 2026, full of MoUs, awards and ministerial coverage.
  • Real proof — 450 Almarai hires and named employer tracks.

Strategic gaps

  • No measurement or retargeting layer beyond GA4.
  • A 17.7 MB and 14.4 second homepage.
  • No employer landing page and no lead form.
  • Brand still split across DFP and FIP identities.
  • 38 programmes and 60 courses ineligible for rich results.

Every gap above is executional, not structural.

FIP does not need a new proposition, curriculum or partner set. It needs a measurement layer, a faster site, one brand identity and an employer path.

Audit detail

What we found on fip.edu.sa.

AreaFindingStatus
Site performance17.7 MB and 14.4 seconds on the English home. Images are 86% of the payload, served as PNG rather than WebP.Critical
Structured dataOnly the Yoast defaults are present. No Course, EducationalOrganization or FAQ markup, so 38 programmes and 60 courses are ineligible for rich results.Critical
Index hygieneTen of 47 pages are login, dashboard or scratch pages — one literally named home banner demo. Arabic slugs are percent-encoded and unshareable, and the canonical points at a duplicate fip-home-2 slug.High
On-page & languageNo meta description on either homepage, lang is set to en-AU on the English page, the Arabic page H1 is in English, and 43% of images carry no alt text.High
MeasurementGA4 is the only tag. No GTM and no platform pixels, so no retargeting audience can ever be built.Critical
Brand identityInstagram on the old DFP_SA handle, LinkedIn on a dairy food polytechnic slug. X is the one channel already correctly branded.Medium
SWOT

Where FIP stands today.

Strengths

  • The only institute built end to end around food manufacturing.
  • Named diploma tracks with Almarai, SABIC and NADEC.
  • ISO 29993, ISO 45001 and an AIB affiliation.
  • 2,500 graduates and fifteen years of delivery.

Weaknesses

  • No measurement or retargeting layer beyond GA4.
  • A 17.7 MB and 14.4 second homepage.
  • No employer landing page and no lead form.
  • Brand split across DFP and FIP identities.

Opportunities

  • A dated April 2026 threshold creates a reason to act.
  • 9 to 12 percent annual growth in manufacturing capital spend.
  • Course schema opens search space no peer occupies.
  • An employer funnel where none exists today.

Threats

  • A National Industry Academy announced in July 2025.
  • 48 peer institutes chasing the same youth and employers.
  • A share of voice deficit a funded newcomer can exploit.
From FIP's brief

Four requirements set by the CEO's office, and where each one is answered.

These requirements came from FIP's marketing and business development office on behalf of the CEO. This proposal has been restructured around them, and a dedicated Five-Year Partnership tab has been added to answer all four directly. The wording below is FIP's own.

1

“A more specific and structured proposal covering the full five-year marketing partnership, clearly divided into marketing strategic phases.”

Answered in The Five-Year Partnership — five strategic phases, each with one mandate and one defined gate, in a table setting out what each phase buys and what has to be met before the next one begins.

2

“How the partnership will strengthen brand visibility and corporate market positioning.”

Answered in Mandates one and two: what gets built, how it is measured, and a five-rung positioning ladder — from training provider to regional reference — with every rung tied to physical proof rather than a claim.

3

“The business pipeline for generating, nurturing, and converting company partnership opportunities.”

Answered in Mandate three: the three stages in detail — what runs each one, who owns it, what it is measured by, and the Phase 01 task to build it, because none of this infrastructure exists at FIP today.

4

“A clear five-year roadmap outlining the expected impact, measurable outcomes, key deliverables, and value generated from the investment.”

Answered in the five-year roadmap table — year by year, in four columns carrying exactly those headings — and in the value-of-the-investment section with its four drivers and its reporting cadence.

Objectives

Four objectives, in the order they get executed.

Nothing that follows compounds until the first is done. The measurement layer is a precondition for every media riyal after it. All four are established in year one, then deepened every year across the five-year horizon.

Objective 01

Build the measurement layer

before any media spend is committed

Deploy GTM, every platform pixel and a full conversion architecture across both funnels and the admissions portal.

Across five years
  • Year one builds the layer and fixes baselines. Years two to five accumulate time-series data no peer institute holds — including graduate retention twelve months after placement.
Objective 02

Generate qualified employer leads

anchored to the April 2026 threshold

Create the employer path that does not exist today — a dedicated landing page and lead form, with LinkedIn and Search campaigns anchored to the April 2026 threshold.

Across five years
  • Employer agreements run five years. Every partner won in year one stays live across the horizon and becomes named proof used to win the next.
Objective 03

Win the three intake seasons

March, August and December

Grow qualified trainee applications across the March, August and December windows through Arabic-first short-form video and intent-based search.

Across five years
  • Three intakes a year over five years is fifteen intake windows — each tested and improved off the one before it, with the first cohort graduating in year three.
Objective 04

Consolidate one brand

retire the DFP identity for good

Retire the DFP identity everywhere it survives, unify every handle, and convert the existing newsroom into a continuous authority stream.

Across five years
  • Brand authority is the slowest asset to accumulate and the hardest to copy. The identity unifies in year two, becomes category leadership by year three and self-sustaining demand by year five.
Strategy pillars

Four pillars carry the whole plan, weighted differently each year.

The pillars hold across all five years. What changes is how much weight each one carries.

01

Fix the foundation

Deploy the measurement layer, compress the site and ship schema. Nothing that follows compounds until this is done.

Heavy in year 1 · maintenance after
02

Own the deadline

Build the employer funnel around the April 2026 threshold — a landing page, a lead form, and LinkedIn and Search.

Peaks in years 1–2 · renews with each localization phase
03

Win the intakes

Concentrate trainee acquisition into March, August and December with Arabic-first short-form video.

Continuous across 15 intake windows
04

Consolidate the brand

Retire DFP everywhere it survives, unify every handle, and turn the newsroom into a continuous authority stream.

Compounds years 2–5 · the hardest asset to copy

The strategic approach

The approach positions FIP as the accredited answer to a dated localization threshold, and as the institute where training comes with a salary and finishes with a job. It separates two audiences that today receive one blended message, and it fixes the measurement layer before any budget is spent.

The operating model

Five phases: one built once, four repeating every year.

This is what makes the plan runnable for five years rather than a one-year plan rewritten every January. Phase 01 is a one-time investment; phases 02 to 05 are an annual cycle, re-calibrated each year on the previous year's data.

Phase 01 · one-time

Foundation & measurement

Year 1, months 1–2
  • Deploy GTM and every pixel — Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and LinkedIn.
  • Define conversions for both funnels including the admissions application flow.
  • Compress PNG photography to WebP and prune unused CSS.
  • Ship Course and Organization schema. No paid media runs in this phase.
Phase 02 · annual

Employer demand generation

always-on, weighted ahead of each localization phase
  • Run the employer landing page and lead form.
  • LinkedIn targeting by job title, industry and company size.
  • Bid on Saudization and Nitaqat search intent.
  • Refresh the readiness guide each year as localization requirements move.
Phase 03 · three times a year

Intake season push

March, August, December · 15 windows across the horizon
  • Concentrated bursts rather than flat monthly spend.
  • Arabic-first vertical video from the workshops and training factories.
  • Graduate stories filmed on site at the employer — and the supply of them grows every year as new cohorts graduate.
  • Dated intake countdowns rather than an open invitation.
Phase 04 · continuous

Retargeting & nurture

from month 3 of year 1 onward
  • Retarget application abandoners on the admissions portal.
  • Nurture employer leads between first contact and meeting.
  • Build lookalike audiences from each converted cohort — and they sharpen every year.
Phase 05 · continuous

Brand consolidation & authority

completes in year 2, then compounds to year 5
  • Move Instagram and LinkedIn onto a single FIP identity.
  • Convert the newsroom into a continuous authority stream.
  • Publish sector labour market data on a regular cadence.
  • Track branded search and the FIP to DFP query ratio until it reaches zero.
Every year

The annual re-calibration

at the close of each year in the horizon
  • Re-baseline against the closing year's actual performance.
  • Re-test the five win hypotheses on real data instead of estimates.
  • Re-weight budget between the two funnels according to which is returning more.
  • Refresh keyword priorities as the market and the competitive set move.
Message system

Three emotional drivers shape how both audiences judge FIP.

These cues do their work before either audience ever contacts the institute.

01

Certainty

For the employer, a compliant band that holds all year. For the trainee, a job with a name attached to it rather than another certificate.

02

Credibility

Fifteen years, ISO accreditation, and named programmes with Almarai, SABIC and NADEC that no peer institute can claim.

03

Urgency

A dated April 2026 threshold for employers, and three fixed intake windows a year for trainees.

The core narrative

The Kingdom is building the factories. FIP builds the people who run them.

For employers, the narrative is a compliance problem with a dated deadline and an accredited answer that already works at Almarai, SABIC and NADEC. The proof is specific and nameable, which is exactly what a peer institute cannot borrow.

For trainees, the narrative is certainty. A salary while you train, insurance and housing during the programme, and a job commitment agreed before the first day. Not a certificate — a career with an employer already attached to it.

Message standards

Five rules that govern every piece of content.

  • Lead with the deadline, not the institute. April 2026 is the reason to keep reading.
  • Name the proof. Almarai hired 450 graduates in one ceremony beats any adjective.
  • Speak to productivity, not goodwill. A plant manager buys uptime and retention, not CSR.
  • Show the mechanism. The needs study and the second year on the employer's own line.
  • Ask for a conversation. The employer conversion is a booked meeting, not a download.
Buyer personas

Four personas, two messages, two funnels.

Two audiences today receive one blended message. This strategy separates them.

Employer funnel · Persona 01

Nasser — Localization Director

38 to 50 · LinkedIn & Search · Central and Eastern

Owns the company Saudization number and reports it upward, at a food manufacturer of 200 to 3,000 staff. Risk averse, evidence driven, with very low risk tolerance because the penalty is public.

Pain point
  • Unqualified hires churn out within months.
Common objection
  • Will your graduates stay?
Marketing message
  • Trained on your line, to your specification, committed before day one.
Employer funnel · Persona 02

Majed — Plant Manager

35 to 55 · LinkedIn & industry events · Kingdom-wide

Runs production, maintenance and quality, judged on uptime, output and safety. Practical, technically literate, unimpressed by marketing, and sceptical of HR-led initiatives until he sees the curriculum.

Pain point
  • A maintenance skills gap he cannot hire out of locally.
Common objection
  • How long before they are productive?
Marketing message
  • Two years on your equipment before their first day.
Trainee funnel · Persona 03

Turki — The School Leaver

18 to 24 · TikTok, Snapchat & Instagram

Saudi, secondary certificate or above, not employed, and wants a real job rather than another certificate. Ambitious but uncertain, influenced by peers, discovers opportunities through short video and verifies them by asking family.

Pain point
  • Applying constantly and hearing nothing back.
Common objection
  • Is the job actually guaranteed?
Marketing message
  • A salary while you train. A job when you finish.
Trainee funnel · Persona 04

Um Turki — The Parent

45 to 60 · Facebook, YouTube & WhatsApp

The person the trainee asks before applying, and often the one who decides if it is taken seriously. Protective, sceptical of private training providers, and asks first whether it is government accredited.

Pain point
  • Cannot tell a real institute from a certificate mill.
Common objection
  • Is this a real, recognised qualification?
Marketing message
  • TVTC accredited. Partnered with Almarai. 2,500 graduates.
Content pillars

Six content types, real footage and never stock.

01

Day in the life

Real footage from the 9 laboratories, 15 workshops and 3 training factories. Real equipment and real trainees, never stock.

02

Graduate stories

Named person, named factory, named job. Filmed on site at the employer rather than staged, because specificity is the proof.

03

Compliance intelligence

Plain language explanations of what the April 2026 phase changes, published before the employer has to ask. Useful analysis rather than promotion.

04

Partnership proof

How the Almarai, SABIC and NADEC tracks were built, what the needs study involved, and what each employer got back.

05

Legitimacy for parents

TVTC accreditation, ISO standards and the partner names, in formal Arabic, on the platforms parents actually use.

06

Sector authority

Food manufacturing labour market data published on a regular cadence, the one thing no peer institute is currently doing.

Win hypotheses

Five hypotheses, and how each one is tested.

Each hypothesis is tied to a specific mechanism and a validation method, so the strategy does not remain an opinion. All five resolve inside year one, then get re-tested annually — and the ones that hold determine where budget goes in the years that follow.

HypothesisMechanismExpected impactValidation method
H1the measurement layer is the largest single efficiency gainGTM plus all platform pixels, conversions defined for both funnels.Retargeting becomes possible for the first time and blended cost per action falls.Before and after cost per action once audiences reach threshold.
H2compressing the site recovers clicks already being paid forPNG to WebP conversion and unused CSS pruned, homepage under 3 MB.More sessions from the same paid clicks and improved Core Web Vitals.Landing page bounce and session start rate, pre and post.
H3a dedicated employer page converts demand that has nowhere to landEmployer landing page and lead form anchored to April 2026.Employer leads become countable, where the baseline today is zero.Lead volume and lead to meeting rate from month one.
H4Course schema opens search space no peer occupiesCourse and Organization markup across 38 programmes and 60 courses.Rich result eligibility and higher organic click through on programme pages.Search Console impressions, click through and rich results.
H5intake-concentrated spend beats flat monthly spendBudget weighted into March, August and December rather than spread evenly.Lower cost per completed application against a flat baseline.Cost per completion across intake and non-intake months.
Competitive moat

What a peer institute cannot copy.

Category specificity

The only one of its kind

The only institute in the ecosystem built end to end around food manufacturing.

Vertical coverage

Farm to retail

Farm, production, quality, maintenance, cold chain, logistics and retail in one institute.

Fifteen years of delivery

2,500+ graduates

Since 2011, under a TVTC and Almarai partnership.

Named employer tracks

Almarai, SABIC & NADEC

Each has a programme built to their own specification.

Accreditation

ISO 29993 & 45001

Plus an American Institute of Baking affiliation.

Regulatory standing

An SFDA training memorandum

And accredited testing centre status for national verification.

Channel approach

Every channel has one objective and one outcome.

The employer funnel runs on LinkedIn and Search. The trainee funnel runs on short-form video. YouTube and X serve both. These roles hold across all five years; what changes is how much weight each channel carries, as the evolution model at the end of this tab sets out.

Search · both funnels

Google Search

capture both audiences at the exact moment of intent
  • Run two campaign structures — employer intent around Saudization and Nitaqat, trainee intent around diploma names.
  • Send employer traffic to a dedicated landing page and trainee traffic to intake pages linked to the admissions portal.
  • Bid on employer brand queries such as Almarai, SABIC and NADEC training where FIP has a named programme.
  • Use sitelinks to surface the five diploma families, three intake dates and eligibility criteria.
Outcome
  • Intent traffic split cleanly between an employer landing page and intake pages, each with a defined conversion.
LinkedIn · employer funnel

LinkedIn

make the April 2026 threshold personally relevant
  • Target by job title, industry and company size to reach localization and plant leadership directly.
  • Lead Gen Forms on-platform, with a Nitaqat 2026 readiness guide as the lead magnet.
  • Named partner proof from Almarai, SABIC and NADEC, and sector data published on a cadence.
  • Note: LinkedIn cannot run until the Insight Tag exists.
Outcome
  • Countable qualified leads and a measurable lead to booked meeting rate.
YouTube · both funnels

YouTube

a permanent answer library that works between intakes
  • One programme explainer per diploma family in plain Arabic, covering equipment and employers.
  • A facility tour of 9 laboratories, 15 workshops and 3 training factories.
  • Employer testimonials on what changed on the line after hiring FIP graduates.
  • Graduation footage already produced for the newsroom and never used as media.
Outcome
  • A permanent searchable answer library that supports both funnels and reduces admissions support load.
X · authority

X

the one channel already correctly branded
  • Publish the newsroom rather than archive it — MoUs, awards and ministerial coverage.
  • Commentary on the April 2026 Nitaqat phase and what it changes.
  • Food manufacturing labour market data on a regular cadence.
  • Migrate every link from twitter.com to x.com and align the handle.
Outcome
  • Rising branded search and recognition as the food sector talent authority.
Instagram · trainee funnel

Instagram

reach trainees where they already are
  • Reels from the workshop floor, welding, refrigeration, dairy lines and bakery production.
  • Graduate stories filmed on site at the employer, named person and named factory.
  • Retire the DFP_SA handle and move to a single findable FIP identity.
  • Intake countdowns timed to March, August and December rather than an open invitation.
Outcome
  • Lower cost per application start and the first retargeting audience FIP has ever held.
TikTok & Snapchat · trainee funnel

TikTok & Snapchat

stop the scroll with one fact — you get paid while you train
  • Short vertical video, real equipment and real trainees.
  • Graduate stories — named person, named factory, named job.
  • Multiple hooks tested per intake, not one hero film.
  • Snapchat mirrors this plan for regional reach.
Outcome
  • Top of funnel reach among 18 to 24 Saudis at the lowest cost per application.
The employer funnel

From relevance to a signed agreement, in three stages.

Stage 01

Awareness

LinkedIn, X, Google Search, the FIP newsroom

Goal: make the April 2026 threshold personally relevant to localization and plant leadership.

Creative
  • Compliance intelligence in plain language.
  • Sector data published on a cadence.
  • Named partner proof from Almarai, SABIC and NADEC.
Stage 02

Engagement & lead capture

LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms, Google Search to a dedicated employer page

Goal: convert relevance into a booked conversation.

Creative
  • A Nitaqat 2026 readiness guide as the lead magnet.
  • A partnership case built on the named tracks.
  • Note: LinkedIn cannot run until the Insight Tag exists.
Stage 03

Conversion

retargeting across LinkedIn & Meta, email nurture, direct follow-up

Goal: turn a qualified lead into a signed five-year agreement.

Creative
  • Retention data and the needs study explainer.
  • Agreement terms and what the employer commits to.
  • None of this is possible without the pixels.
The content loop

An institute with three fixed intakes a year cannot run on a plan written once in January.

It has to loop. Six steps, and every result feeds the next intake cycle — fifteen cycles across the five-year horizon, each starting from a better place than the one before it.

01
Research
employer & trainee language from comments and reviews
02
Ideation
start from the pain point, never the programme
03
Briefing
every brief names hook, angle, CTA and format
04
Production
volume over precious
05
Evaluation
hook rate, hold rate, cost per qualified application
06
Launch & analyse
every result feeds the next intake cycle
Keyword strategy

Five thematic clusters across two languages.

FIP publishes 38 programmes and 60 courses and captures almost none of the search value. None carry Course or Organization schema, and Arabic programme URLs are percent-encoded and unshareable.

Theme 1 — Compliance & localization (AR)

نطاقات 2026توطين الوظائفالسعودةقوىتدريب منتهي بالتوظيفكوادر وطنيةتأهيل كوادر سعوديةشراكة تدريب

Theme 1 — Compliance & localization (EN)

Nitaqat 2026Saudization solutionsLocalization partnerTraining to employmentTechnical workforceQiwa contractsSaudi techniciansWorkforce plan

Theme 2 — Food industry talent (AR)

تدريب سلامة الغذاءدورة هاسبفني صيانةتبريد صناعيجودة الغذاءسلاسل الإمدادمصانع الألبانفني إنتاج

Theme 2 — Food industry talent (EN)

HACCP trainingFood safety certificationMaintenance technicianCold chain rolesDairy productionQuality inspectorIndustrial refrigerationSupply chain training

Theme 3 — Programme & enrolment (AR)

دبلوم منتهي بالتوظيفمعهد الصناعات الغذائيةدبلوم الألباندبلوم المخبوزاتتدريب براتبدبلوم الصيانةالتسجيل في المعهددبلوم لوجستي

Theme 4 — Employer brand & eligibility (AR)

وظائف المراعيبرامج المراعي للتدريبتدريب نادكشروط القبولوظائف بعد الثانويةدبلوم بدون جامعة

Theme 5 — Comparison & trust (AR)

أفضل معهد تدريبمعاهد الشراكاتالفرق بين الدبلوم والجامعةرواتب الخريجينتخصصات مطلوبة في سوق العملهل الدبلوم معتمدبدائل الجامعة

Themes 3 to 5 (EN)

Diploma with a jobFood industries diplomaDairy technologyPaid trainingApply to FIPAlmarai trainingNADEC diplomaSABIC food techAdmission requirementsJobs after schoolTVTC accreditedNCSP
Priority keywords

Where intent lands, and in what order.

Keyword themeLanguageIntentLanding pagePriority
Priority 1 — Employer compliance intent
Nitaqat 2026 and Saudization thresholdsAR & ENComplianceEmployer landing page1
Training to employment partnershipAR & ENSolutionEmployer landing page1
Technical workforce and Saudi techniciansAR & ENSolutionProgrammes hub2
HACCP and food safety trainingAR & ENCorporate courseShort courses2
Maintenance and industrial refrigerationARSectorProgramme pages3
Priority 2 — Trainee programme intent
دبلوم منتهي بالتوظيفARCategoryIntake landing page1
معهد الصناعات الغذائيةARBrandHome and about1
تدريب براتب · شروط القبولAREligibilityIntake landing page2
Programme names by diploma familyARProgrammeIndividual programme pages2
Priority 3 — Employer brand intent
وظائف المراعي تدريبARFIP runs the named Almarai tracksAlmarai programme page1
NADEC and SABIC trainingAR & ENFIP runs named tracks for bothProgramme pages2
هل الدبلوم معتمد · بدائل الجامعة بعد الثانويةARCategory-level intent with no clear ownerAccreditations and intake pages2
Media plan

The opening quarter, costed in full.

This is the first three months of media spend in year one, detailed in full because it is the only period that can be costed precisely before any data exists. Everything after it is re-calibrated on actual performance — the five-year model below shows how the mix evolves. The budget is funded by FIP directly with the platforms and is not part of the MAZ NEXA fee in the Commercial tab.

Distribution by platform

SAR 120,000 total · opening quarter of year one
Instagram
SAR 36,000 · 30%
Google & YouTube
SAR 33,600 · 28%
TikTok
SAR 27,600 · 23%
X
SAR 22,800 · 19%

Distribution by objective

Weighted towards conversion
Conversions
SAR 44,400 · 37%
Awareness
SAR 42,000 · 35%
Consideration
SAR 33,600 · 28%
3.84M
total projected impressions
20,514
total projected clicks · SAR 5.85 avg CPC
PlatformObjectiveGoalSpendCPMImpressionsClicksCPCCTR
InstagramAwarenessReach & awareness15,600121,300,0007,80020.60%
TikTokAwarenessReach & awareness12,00018666,6674,00030.60%
XAwarenessReach & awareness8,40060140,000840100.60%
Google & YouTubeAwarenessSearch visibility6,00025240,0001,20050.50%
InstagramConsiderationEngagement9,60025384,0001,60060.42%
TikTokConsiderationVideo views7,20022327,2731,44050.44%
XConsiderationEngagement7,2008090,000514140.57%
Google & YouTubeConsiderationTraffic9,60060160,000800120.50%
InstagramLead generationLeads10,80020054,000600181.11%
TikTokLead generationLeads8,40013064,615280300.43%
XLead generationLeads7,20013055,385240300.43%
Google & YouTubeLead generationLeads18,00050360,0001,200150.33%
Total (SAR)120,000683,841,93920,5145.850.53%

All figures in Saudi Riyals. Numbers are planning estimates based on platform benchmarks in the Saudi market, and are re-calibrated once baselines are fixed in Phase 01. Riyal estimates are deliberately not given for years two to five: pricing 2030 media today would be false precision. The strategy instead sets the allocation rule applied to whatever budget FIP approves each year.

Channel evolution

How the mix shifts across five years.

The goal is not to spend more each year. It is to depend on paid media less. Year one starts with paid as the only demand engine because nothing else is working yet; by year five paid is a seasonal accelerant on top of an organic and direct base.

YearStrategic focusLeading channelsRole of paid mediaGoverning KPI
2026–27
Year 1
Make FIP measurable, then own the April 2026 threshold.LinkedIn & Search for employers · TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram for intakesThe only demand engine. No retargeting audience exists yet.Conversions defined · first cost per lead
2027–28
Year 2
Scale both funnels on real audiences instead of cold targeting.Retargeting & lookalikes across Meta, TikTok, LinkedInStill leading, but efficiency rises sharply as audiences mature.Blended cost per action vs the year-1 baseline
2028–29
Year 3
Own organic search and sector authority.Organic search on Course schema · YouTube · X · the newsroomBegins to fall as a share, as owned and earned take part of the load.Organic share of demand · rich result eligibility
2029–30
Year 4
Open a second demand path via the Dubai regional centre.GCC LinkedIn · English-language search · sector media partnershipsRises again temporarily in the new market only, while staying low domestically.Employer leads originating outside the Kingdom
2030–31
Year 5
Self-sustaining demand that exceeds capacity.Direct, organic, graduate referral and employer referralA seasonal accelerant around intake windows only.Ratio of demand to available seats

The real test of a five-year strategy

Not how much reach year five delivered, but how much cheaper it became to acquire a trainee or an employer compared with year one. A twelve-month plan cannot even ask that question, because it does not live long enough to hold both ends of the comparison.

Performance framework

What we monitor — and none of it is measurable today.

Establishing the baseline is a Phase 01 deliverable, not an assumption. By year three these indicators become a continuous time series that allows retention after placement to be measured — something no twelve-month plan ever reaches.

Employer signals
Qualified leads
Cost per lead and lead to meeting rate.
Trainee signals
Application starts
Completions, and cost per completion.
Creative signals
Hook rate
Hold rate and click through, judged per hook.
Site & brand health
Page weight
Load time, rich result eligibility, branded search volume, and the FIP to DFP query ratio.
The partnership

One five-year partnership, not five annual projects.

The CEO's office asked for a more specific and structured proposal covering the full five-year marketing partnership, clearly divided into marketing strategic phases. This tab is that proposal: five phases, each with one mandate and one gate; three executive mandates — brand visibility, corporate market positioning, and the company-partnership pipeline — each tracked across all five phases; then a roadmap that sets out, year by year, the key deliverables, the measurable outcomes and the expected impact, and finally the value the investment generates.

Structure
5 phases
Marketing strategic phases, 2026 to 2031, each with a defined gate.
Mandates
3 mandates
Brand visibility, corporate positioning and the partnership pipeline — as set by the CEO.
Operating cycles
15 cycles
Three intakes a year for five years, each cycle starting from the previous cycle's data.
Governance
20 reviews
A quarterly business review with leadership, plus an annual re-plan at every phase gate.
Strategic phases

Five phases, and a gate that has to be passed before the next one opens.

No phase begins before the previous gate is met. This is what stops the partnership becoming recurring annual spend with no accumulation: each phase buys one specific capability and hands it to the next.

PhasePeriodStrategic mandateGate to the next phase
Phase 01 — Establish
Year one
2026–27Deploy the measurement layer, compress the site and ship schema, unify the identity under FIP and retire DFP, and launch the employer funnel ahead of the April 2026 threshold.Every baseline fixed and countable, and the first employer agreements signed through an end-to-end tracked path.
Phase 02 — Acquire
Year two
2027–28Scale both funnels on first-party data: retargeting and lookalike audiences built on the first converted cohort, and an employer pipeline compounding off year-one agreements.Blended cost per action below the year-one baseline, and retargeting pools replenishing themselves.
Phase 03 — Authority
Year three
2028–29Own the category: publish food-manufacturing labour-market data on a cadence, rank programme pages on Course schema, and lift owned and earned share against paid.Branded search overtakes non-branded, and organic share of demand overtakes paid.
Phase 04 — Expand
Year four
2029–30Activate the Dubai regional centre as a second demand path, raise English-language weight, and widen the employer funnel to GCC food manufacturers.A second demand path outside the Kingdom producing qualified employer conversations, not just impressions.
Phase 05 — Compound
Year five
2030–31Self-sustaining demand: the majority of demand arrives organic and direct, and paid media shifts from demand engine to a seasonal accelerant around intake dates.Demand exceeds capacity, and selection — not acquisition — becomes the constraint.
  • The gates are not ceremonial. If a gate is not met, the next phase is re-planned on the actual data before any further spend is committed — success is never assumed and never built upon.
  • The three mandates run in every phase. Brand visibility, positioning and the pipeline are not sequential stages but three parallel workstreams whose weighting shifts from phase to phase.
  • Every phase hands over an asset FIP keeps. The measurement layer, the schema, the personas, the content system and the employer database remain wholly owned by FIP at the end of the partnership.
Year by year

What changes in each of the five years.

The narrative of each of the partnership's five years, and the one outcome that decides whether the year worked. Each year is built on the measurement the year before it established, which is why none of them can be brought forward.

1
2026–27

Foundation & the deadline

Deploy the measurement layer, compress the site and ship schema, then launch the employer funnel ahead of the April 2026 threshold and win the first three intakes. Every baseline is fixed this year.

Outcome: the first countable number in FIP's history.
2
2027–28

Scale the two funnels

Retargeting and lookalike audiences built on the first converted cohort mature, the employer pipeline compounds off year-one agreements, and the unified FIP identity completes as DFP is retired for good.

Outcome: blended cost per action falls against the year-one baseline.
3
2028–29

Category authority

FIP becomes the body that publishes food manufacturing labour market data on a cadence. Owned and earned share rises and dependence on paid media falls as programme pages rank on Course schema.

Outcome: branded search overtakes non-branded.
4
2029–30

Regional expansion

The regional centre agreed in Dubai is activated as a second demand path. English-language weight rises and the employer funnel widens to GCC food manufacturers, as Vision 2030 reaches its target year.

Outcome: a second demand path outside the Kingdom.
5
2030–31

Self-sustaining demand

FIP becomes the default answer in its category: the majority of demand arrives organic and direct, and paid media shifts from demand engine to seasonal accelerant — as the Saudi food and beverage market reaches USD 50.4 billion.

Outcome: demand exceeds capacity and selection becomes the constraint.

Why five years and not one

FIP's diploma programme runs two and a half years. A twelve-month plan expires before the first trainee recruited under it graduates, so it can never measure the thing that matters: whether the graduate got a job and stayed in it. Employer agreements are also signed on five-year terms. A five-year horizon is the shortest window that closes the full loop — from the first media riyal to a placed, retained graduate at a contracted employer.

Mandate one

How the partnership strengthens brand visibility.

Visibility today cannot even be measured: no measurement layer, no schema on any of the 38 programmes or 60 courses, a 17.7 MB homepage penalised on speed, and two competing identities — FIP and DFP — splitting the same search name. All four are resolved in Phase 01, and everything after it is built on top.

What we build

A findable foundation

Course and Organization schema on every programme and course, clean shareable Arabic URLs instead of percent-encoded ones, homepage compression, and a sitemap and internal structure that bind 235 URLs into thematic clusters instead of orphan pages.

How it is measured

Four indicators, not impressions

Search visibility share across the five keyword clusters in Arabic and English, branded search volume, the share of programme pages indexed and appearing with rich results, and organic reach on social — all against a baseline fixed in Phase 01.

Where it lands

Visibility in front of the two right audiences

Visibility is not measured by total reach but by reach to a hiring manager at a food manufacturer and to a qualified prospective trainee. Content that serves both with one message serves neither — which is why the two funnels are separated from Phase 01.

Visibility today

  • No measurement layer — no visibility number can be proved or disproved.
  • No Course or Organization schema on any of 38 programmes and 60 courses.
  • A 17.7 MB homepage, penalised on load speed in ranking.
  • Two identities — FIP and DFP — splitting demand on the same name.
  • Arabic programme URLs percent-encoded, unshareable and poorly indexed.

Visibility by the end of Phase 03

  • Every traffic source and conversion attributed to its channel, language and funnel.
  • Programme pages ranking on Course schema and appearing with rich results in both languages.
  • Branded search overtaking non-branded — the one indicator that cannot be bought.
  • One name, one handle per platform, one narrative across both funnels.
  • FIP appearing as the sector's data source, not only as an advertiser in it.
Mandate two

How the partnership strengthens corporate market positioning.

Positioning is not a slogan; it is a position in an employer's mind. Today FIP reads as one training provider among several. The partnership moves it up five rungs until it is the default reference for food-manufacturing workforce recruitment in the region — and every rung is tied to a piece of physical proof, not a claim.

A training providertoday
A credible hiring partnerPhase 01
The first call on compliancePhase 02
The national sector referencePhase 03
The regional referencePhases 04–05
01

Proof one: the data

There is no trusted published source for Saudi food-manufacturing labour-market data today. Whoever publishes it on a cadence becomes the body that gets cited — the cheapest route to category authority. It starts in Phase 02 and pays off in Phase 03.

02

Proof two: the employer roster

Almarai, SABIC and NADEC are named diploma tracks no peer institute can copy. Today those names appear in no marketing asset in any measurable form. Turning them into documented case studies, with placement and retention numbers, is the strongest positioning asset FIP owns and does not use.

03

Proof three: graduate outcomes

The diploma runs two and a half years. Only a five-year horizon closes the loop: a trainee recruited under this strategy who graduates, is placed, and stays. That number — retention after placement — is what moves FIP from provider to reference, and no twelve-month plan ever reaches it.

What positioning buys commercially

Positioning is not an end in itself. Its commercial effect is specific: it shortens the employer persuasion cycle because FIP no longer has to prove its credentials from zero in every conversation; it raises the conversation-to-signed-agreement conversion rate; and it reduces dependence on paid media because a growing share of demand arrives directly, by name. All three are measured in the performance framework and reported at the quarterly review.

Mandate three

The business pipeline: generating, nurturing and converting company partnership opportunities.

This is the mandate for which FIP has no infrastructure at all today. The employer proposition — the most commercially valuable message FIP owns — sits behind a generic button on a 17.7 MB page. There is no employer landing page, no lead form, no database, and no way of knowing a company visited the site at all. The three stages below are built from zero in Phase 01 and deepened every year after.

1

Generate

Target hiring, operations and HR managers at food manufacturers on LinkedIn by job title, sector and company size, supported by high-intent search on compliance and localization terms in Arabic and English. The content is not an advertisement for FIP; it answers the employer's question: how do I meet the required Saudization rate with people who can actually do the job.

Measured by
  • Qualified companies entering the pipeline, cost per company, and the share of them in the right sector.
2

Nurture

A hiring agreement is not signed off one advertisement. Email and retargeting nurture sequences are built around three assets: the labour-market data FIP publishes, documented case studies of the Almarai, SABIC and NADEC tracks, and invitations to visit the facility and labs. Every interaction is recorded, so follow-up is prioritised on behaviour rather than instinct.

Measured by
  • The share of companies moving from first interest to a qualified conversation, and how long that takes.
3

Convert

A dedicated employer landing page, one lead form, and a direct handover to FIP's partnerships team with everything the system knows about the company before the first call. A conversion here is not a lead; it is a signed hiring or training agreement — the only unit worth counting.

Measured by
  • Signed agreements, the marketing cost per agreement, and the number of seats each agreement commits.
StageWhat runs itWho owns itThe Phase 01 task
GenerateLinkedIn with job-title targeting, paid and organic search on compliance terms, and digital PR in sector publications.MAZ NEXA — planning, execution and measurement.Fix the baseline: how many companies arrive today, and how many are in the right sector? The current answer is unknown.
NurtureEmail sequences, retargeting on first-party lists, labour-market data publishing, and employer case studies.MAZ NEXA for content and automation, FIP for outcome data and facility access.Build FIP's first-ever first-party list, and document the first three employer case studies.
ConvertThe employer landing page, one lead form, and a tracked handover to the partnerships team.FIP owns the conversation and the agreement; MAZ NEXA owns the path that produced it and the measurement after it.Build the page, the form and the path — none of which exist today — ahead of the April 2026 threshold.

Volume targets for each pipeline stage are set after the Phase 01 baseline is fixed, not before it. Any figure offered today for the number of expected agreements would be a guess, because FIP does not currently measure how many companies reach it at all. That is precisely why the measurement layer is the first item in Phase 01.

The five-year roadmap

For each year: the key deliverables, the measurable outcomes and the expected impact.

This is the roadmap the CEO's office asked for, in one table. The deliverables are what is actually handed over; the measurable outcomes are what gets measured at year end against the baseline; the expected impact is what that means for FIP as an institution. Absolute performance figures are fixed at the close of Phase 01, because no baseline exists today.

Year & phaseKey deliverablesMeasurable outcomesExpected impact
Year 1 · 2026–27
Phase 01 — Establish
A full measurement layer (tracking, events, attribution); Course and Organization schema across 38 programmes and 60 courses; site compression and Arabic URL repair; identity unified under FIP and DFP retired; the employer landing page and lead form; the first first-party list; three documented case studies. A fixed baseline for every indicator in the performance framework; the first reliable count of companies entering the pipeline; the first signed agreements attributed to a tracked path; three intakes run on data. FIP moves from marketing by impression to marketing by number, and meets the April 2026 localization threshold with a working employer path rather than an improvised response.
Year 2 · 2027–28
Phase 02 — Acquire
Retargeting and lookalike audiences built on the first converted cohort; complete nurture sequences for both funnels; the first edition of the labour-market data report; expansion of the five keyword clusters; a content system shot in the real labs. Blended cost per action below the year-one baseline; a higher conversation-to-agreement conversion rate; a first-party list large enough to run targeting without buying an entirely new audience. FIP's growth stops depending entirely on media budget and starts compounding: every riyal in year two works on data that did not exist in year one.
Year 3 · 2028–29
Phase 03 — Authority
Labour-market data published on a cadence; a newsroom operating as an asset rather than an archive; a digital PR programme in sector publications; programme pages ranking on Course schema in both languages; the first measurement of graduate outcomes after placement. Branded search overtakes non-branded; organic and direct share of demand overtakes paid; the first continuous time series for retention after placement. FIP becomes the body that gets cited in the Saudi food-manufacturing workforce conversation — a position a peer institute cannot buy with media budget.
Year 4 · 2029–30
Phase 04 — Expand
The Dubai regional centre activated as a second demand path; a full English edition of the content and search system; the employer funnel widened to GCC food manufacturers; positioning material built for the regional market. Qualified employer conversations originating outside the Kingdom; a meaningful English share of organic traffic; the first regional agreements attributed to a tracked path. FIP's growth stops being capped by a single market, timed to Vision 2030 reaching its target year and peak demand for qualified technical staff.
Year 5 · 2030–31
Phase 05 — Compound
Paid media converted into a seasonal accelerant around the three intake dates; a content system running itself on an annual cycle; a closed outcome loop from first click to a placed and retained graduate; full handover of every asset and document to FIP. The majority of demand arrives organic and direct; paid media is no longer the only engine; retention after placement is measured over a complete cycle rather than estimated. Demand exceeds capacity, so selection replaces acquisition as the constraint — the position that lets FIP raise both its admission standards and its output quality at once.
Value of the investment

The value generated from the investment in the partnership.

Four value drivers, all measurable inside the same performance framework — presented not as promises but as line items reviewed at every quarterly business review.

1

Assets that stay with FIP

The measurement layer, the schema, the audience personas, the content system, the employer database and the pipeline itself are all built inside FIP's own accounts and remain wholly FIP's property. Unlike media spend, this part of the investment is not consumed when the engagement ends.

2

Cost that falls every year

Each year of data lowers the next year's cost: retargeting replaces cold audience buying, organic search replaces the paid click, and branded search replaces bidding on a generic term. The cumulative effect is that marketing cost per signed agreement and per enrolment falls from phase to phase.

3

Revenue that compounds rather than repeats

Employer agreements are signed on five-year terms. An agreement signed in Phase 01 is still funding seats in Phase 05. So the value of the partnership's first year is not measured by first-year results alone, but by everything those agreements produce across the whole horizon — which no annual plan captures.

4

Risk removed on schedule

The April 2026 localization threshold is not a marketing target but a regulatory obligation on employers, and it is the strongest demand driver FIP owns. Meeting it with a working, measurable path instead of an improvised response is value measured in opportunity not lost, rather than in money spent.

How the value is reported

A single monthly report on one dashboard showing both funnels; then a quarterly business review with leadership where numbers are read against the baseline rather than against last month; then an annual re-plan at each phase gate where budget is redistributed to whatever has been proved to work. FIP is not asked to measure the partnership's impact itself: the impact is delivered already measured.

Investment structure: the fee in the Delivery & Commercial tab covers building the full five-year strategy — a single, non-recurring payment with no monthly retainer and no annual renewal fee. Delivery of each of the five phases (campaign management, publishing and monthly operations) is quoted separately, phase by phase, against the scope the roadmap above defines and agreed before that phase begins. Media spend in every year is funded by FIP directly with the platforms and is not part of the MAZ NEXA fee.

Governance

How a five-year partnership is actually run.

What separates a partnership from a series of projects is the governance rhythm. Four fixed cadences, each producing one specific decision.

Monthly reportdecision: tactical channel adjustment
Quarterly business reviewdecision: budget reallocation between funnels
The phase gatedecision: pass to the next phase or re-plan it
Annual re-plandecision: next year's scope and targets
FIP

What FIP provides

One contact with approval authority, read access to the platforms and the site, graduate outcome and placement data, access to the facility and labs for filming, and ownership of the employer conversation and the agreement itself.

MAZ NEXA

What MAZ NEXA is accountable for

Strategy, measurement, execution and reporting; fixing the baseline; prioritising budget on performance; and bringing the numbers to every review whether or not they favour us.

Joint

What is decided together

The scope of each phase before it begins, the following year's targets at the re-plan, any material budget shift between the two funnels, and any change to positioning or the core message.

Roadmap

A 4 to 6 week development process, producing a five-year plan.

A combination of independent research and workshops with key stakeholders forms the strategy foundations. The six weeks below are how long the strategy takes to build; what it covers is the five-phase, 2026 to 2031 partnership set out in the previous tab.

Phase
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
Phase 1 — Immersion & intelligencestakeholder workshop
Phase 2 — Auditing & benchmarkingall digital assets
Phase 3 — Strategic plan & presentationmatched to objectives & KPIs
Phase 4 — Handover & rollout plana staged execution plan
KPI setting & reporting frameworkahead of executing the approved strategy
Phase 1

Immersion & intelligence

Key stakeholders across product, marketing, sales and strategy. Current versus ideal customer profile, the digital competitive set, the go-to-market offering, messaging, tonality, story, KPIs, technology and the current partner ecosystem.

Phase 2

Auditing & benchmarking

An audit of all digital assets — website, social media, performance and content — and content delivery against the marketing and sales funnel, top to middle to bottom.

Phase 3

Strategic plan & presentation

A practical build of the digital strategy, phased against deliverables across the five years, omnichannel in approach, and matched against the agreed objectives and KPIs for each year.

Phase 4

Handover & rollout

Handover of the five-year roadmap with monthly and quarterly targets for year one, annual targets for years two to five, and the monitoring and optimisation model. We work with your internal team, external partners and our own subject matter experts.

Scope of work

Three components, each with a defined output.

1

Digital Marketing Strategy Workshop

A focused workshop to align FIP's institutional goals, programme priorities and growth objectives, establishing a clear digital marketing direction that supports consistent branding, enrolment growth and employer partnerships — across a five-year horizon rather than a single year.

Key output
  • Clear strategic alignment, priorities, and success criteria for each of the five years.
1.1

Social Media & Brand Strategy

Define FIP's brand positioning across social platforms through audience persona development, competitor benchmarking, content direction and platform selection — including retiring the DFP identity and unifying every handle under FIP.

Key output
  • A clear brand narrative, audience focus, and content strategy.
1.2

Performance & Demand Generation Strategy

Develop a data-driven framework for demand generation, growth and long-term scalability, including funnel logic, the KPI framework and the retargeting approach — for both funnels, with stepped targets for each of the five years.

Key output
  • An actionable growth strategy with measurable performance indicators and a clear five-year escalation path.

Strategic value delivered

Clear market positioning Focused demand-generation roadmap Scalable, execution-ready strategy Alignment with Saudi market dynamics & Vision 2030
Strategy outputs

Eight outputs, and why each one matters.

1

Target audience, persona & user journey analysis

Mapping the audience lets FIP humanise its marketing and sales approach and reduce cost in the process. We consider how different audiences behave with the brand.

2

Search strategy: organic & paid opportunities

High-intent, conversion-ready traffic can be obtained from these channels. We identify the best opportunities for faster results.

3

Digital asset & tracking analysis

What impact do the website and platforms have on FIP's growth? We analyse this and identify growth opportunities — this is where the missing measurement layer sits.

4

Messaging & content strategy

Creating and distributing the right content, with the right message, to the right person at the right time builds deeper relationships and real growth.

5

Social strategy: channels, engagement & content

Every social channel is analysed against the target audience, with a recommendation on the content type that engages each segment and provokes outreach.

6

Lead generation & sales funnel analysis

We integrate FIP's partnership and admissions processes and funnel directly into the marketing strategy — which is what produces the employer and trainee funnels.

7

Digital PR strategy

We identify the PR channels that can be targeted to accelerate brand awareness and growth — this is where the newsroom turns from an archive into an asset.

8

Implementation plan

The success or failure of a digital strategy comes down to how well it is executed. We therefore create a staged execution plan for FIP.

What is in and what is out

Clear boundaries from day one.

In scope

  • The Digital Marketing Strategy workshop with leadership and key stakeholders.
  • A full digital asset audit: website, search, measurement, social and content.
  • Market, sector and competitor analysis, and the SWOT.
  • Audience personas and user journeys for both funnels.
  • Social and brand strategy, the message system and creative direction.
  • Performance and demand-generation strategy, funnel logic and the KPI framework.
  • Keyword strategy and search priorities in Arabic and English.
  • A recommended media plan and budget distribution.
  • A five-year roadmap (2026–2031) with objectives, deliverables and KPIs for each year.
  • A staged first-year implementation plan, plus the repeating operating model for years two to five.
  • A five-year channel evolution model and the paid-to-owned mix shift.
  • A complete strategy document and presentation, in Arabic and English.

Out of scope (quoted separately)

  • Execution of the strategy across the five years — campaign management, publishing and monthly operations. The scope is fully defined in The Five-Year Partnership tab and is quoted phase by phase ahead of each phase.
  • Technical implementation on the site: GTM, pixel and schema deployment, image compression.
  • Building the employer landing page and lead form.
  • Video production, photography and ongoing content production.
  • Paid media spend — funded by FIP directly with the platforms.
  • Website development, CRM licensing and third-party tool fees.
Commercial

One line item, one payment, covering five years.

The standard price for this engagement is SAR 200,000. A special 10% discount is applied for Food Industries Polytechnic, bringing the net to SAR 180,000 before VAT. The fee below is the whole strategy development engagement: no monthly retainer and no annual renewal fee across the five-year horizon.

ItemUnitPrice (SAR)Total (SAR)
Digital Marketing Strategy — five years
The workshop, social & brand strategy, the performance & demand-generation framework, a five-year roadmap across the 2026–2031 horizon, and the full document in Arabic and English.
1200,000200,000
Subtotal200,000
Special discount 10%−20,000
Net before VAT180,000
VAT 15%27,000
Grand total (SAR)207,000
Total investment
SAR 207,000
Inclusive of 15% VAT · SAR 180,000 before VAT after the 10% discount · a single, non-recurring payment covering the full five-year horizon
Standard price SAR 200,000 · you save SAR 20,000
Terms

Payment terms & notes

  • One-time / non-monthly services — workshops, strategy development, production, branding and collateral design — are settled 100% upfront prior to starting the service. This engagement is of that type.
  • Monthly services — social media management and monthly performance marketing — are settled monthly against project continuity and monthly deliverables. Not applicable to this engagement.
  • All deliverables are bilingual — Arabic and English.
  • Compliance — fully compliant with ZATCA VAT (15%), PDPL, and Saudi commercial law.
  • Revisions — includes up to 2 design revisions within the agreed scope and timeline.
  • The discount — the 10% is specific to this engagement and to this proposal's 30-day validity period. VAT is calculated on the discounted net, per ZATCA rules.

This proposal excludes paid media spend in every one of the five years. The recommended SAR 120,000 opening-quarter media plan (Channels & Media tab) is a budget funded by FIP directly with the platforms and is not part of the MAZ NEXA fee above — nor is media spend in any subsequent year.

Delivery team

Who works on the Food Industries Polytechnic account.

Account Director
Primary contact, relationship owner, accountable for approvals and escalation.
Digital Strategist
Leads the workshop, the positioning and the full strategy build across both funnels.
Search & Analytics Lead
The technical audit, the measurement architecture, the keyword strategy and the KPI framework.
Media Planner
Budget allocation across both funnels, intake-season weighting and performance estimates.
Creative Director
The core narrative, creative direction and message standards across every output.
Content Strategist (AR/EN)
Content pillars and the content loop, written natively in both languages — no machine translation.
Market Analyst
Market sizing, peer benchmarking and regulatory impact analysis.
Project Manager
The timeline, stakeholder coordination and on-time handover of the document.
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+28.4%
organic sessions

Further cases available on request: Jahez (high-volume creative production), Shell Helix (551M paid impressions), Audi with Ali & Sons, and Pure Minds Academy.

Why MAZ NEXA

A joint venture between an international agency and a Saudi group.

MAZ NEXA is a joint venture between the international growth agency NEXA and the Saudi-based MAZ Holding, supported by its PR arm Bold Influence.

20+
years of combined industry experience
300+
experts in marketing & communications
5
global locations — KSA, UAE, UK, Australia, USA
1%
top 1% of HubSpot partners globally
MENA Search Awards — Best Use of Search 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2026 MENA Search Awards — Best Local Campaign 2021, 2026 MENA Search Awards — Best Integrated Digital Campaign 2017–2022 MENA Search Awards — Best In-House Team 2021 ISO 9001 certified · 2026

MAZ NEXA Digital Advertising & Marketing Company · Al Imam Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz Branch Rd, Almasiaf, Riyadh 12465, Saudi Arabia · support@maznexa.sa · www.maznexa.sa — Prepared for Food Industries Polytechnic on 06 August 2026 and valid for 30 days. All prices in Saudi Riyals. The standard price is SAR 200,000; after a special 10% discount the net is SAR 180,000 before VAT, and the grand total is SAR 207,000 inclusive of 15% VAT. Market figures and performance expectations across the five-year horizon are planning projections drawn from published sources, not guaranteed outcomes.