Alert when Job isn't triggered

I have a Sql Job on my server that is triggered nightly from a remote server (once it has completed its backups).

I have successfully configured the job to notify me when it fails, but I would like to set up an alert to notify me when a job has not been triggered. i.e. when the remote server fails to trigger the job on my end.

Is this possible? I've had a look at the settings, and all the alerts, etc, are all concerned with when the job fails/succeeds.

I could set the job to alert on completion (regardless of status), and I was doing that to start with (and I did that to start with), but I would rather not get continuous emails (after all, I'd probably just start ignoring them).

I have managed to find one solution to this, although it's not as neat as I would have preferred. I've created a second job that checks the last run date on my target job. This is scheduled to run daily, a couple of hours after the target job should have run.

If not exists 
(
    SELECT 'x'
    FROM msdb.dbo.SysJobServers S
        INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.SysJobs J ON S.job_id = J.job_id
    WHERE J.name = 'JobName'
        AND CONVERT(datetime2, CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), last_run_date)) > GETDATE() -1
)
BEGIN
    RAISERROR ('The Job has not been executed today.', 16, 0)
END

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