Job Description

This is a 6-month maternity leave contract to manage the marketing department of a leading pet care retailer in South Africa. We are looking for the contract to begin mid March 2024.

This position requires strong planning, coordinating, management, communication and administrative skills.

You would be managing a highly productive team with very high standards and a great deal of passion and energy for the work that they do. You will report to the Commercial Director but liaise with various individuals and departments in the company, as well as external stakeholders.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Manage the marketing team consisting of 6 team members:

• Ensure they are all clear on their tasks and deadlines.
• Support and assist team members with guidance and direction for them to complete their tasks and fulfil all marketing deliverables timeously and to standard.
• Marketing calendar: manage and continuously update the marketing calendar to ensure events, promotional campaigns, mailer campaigns, newsletters and articles and other marketing activities are scheduled and planned accordingly.
• Project Management: manage the planning and execution of various marketing initiatives, events and campaigns:

• Liaising with senior management
• Developing campaign concepts and ideas
• Setting up campaign plans and briefs
• Briefing relevant team members
• Overseeing the planning phase (providing sufficient support and direction to all involved)
• Ensuring excellent execution
• Post promotion reports and admin.
• Social media:

• Review and approve the social media calendar.
• Work with the content coordinator to brainstorm content, ensure sufficient content is planned and executed.
• Manage a variety of agencies and suppliers - manage and monitor the work they are doing:

• Commercial radio stations
• Radio production agency
• PR agency
• Digital agency
• Print suppliers
• Freelance service providers

• Budget management:

• Ensure costs are kept under control xe2x80x93 review and approve various campaign related costs.

Experience and qualifications required

• Degree in Marketing Managements, Marketing Communications or similar.
• Experience as a Marketing Manager.
• Experience in the retail industry preferable.
• Experience working with agencies and external stakeholders.
• Experience with Microsoft

Capabilities and strengths

• Organized and meticulous xe2x80x93 high attention to detail
• Excellent planning skills
• Great time management skills
• Excellent communication skills xe2x80x93 written and verbal
• Good copywriting and proofreading skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Great people skills
• Productive and extremely efficient
• Driven /action orientated
• Strong initiative
• Resourceful
• Ability to prioritise and re-prioritise
• Service-orientated
• Multi-tasking
• Ability to work under pressure and with tight deadlines

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