Marketing Manager Centurion - Sinakho Staffshop (Pty) Ltd

Description

Marketing Manager

A challenging role has arisen for a Marketing Manager to join our team at Sinakho Staff Shop Pty Ltd. As the ideal candidate, you will be responsible for developing and implementing the overall annual marketing and communication strategy.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Strategy Development: Develop, plan, implement and manage the overall annual marketing and communication strategy.
• Cross-Departmental Coordination: Coordinate across all departments in developing and implementing the company-wide marketing and communication plan.
• Partner Relationship Management: Evaluate communication medium potential and manage strategic partner relationships across company departments, stakeholders and external suppliers to create awareness, educate consumers/collectors and support resellers/dealers in demand creation.
• Market Insights: Keep abreast of and understand market/dealer/consumer behavior and attitudes to generate relevant insights.
• Team Leadership: Develop, guide, mentor and lead the team in meeting strategic objectives.
• Talent Development: Develop individuals so they can deliver on business objectives.
• Customer Relationships: Build and maintain great customer relationships, through communication and collaboration, to ensure effective service delivery within the business clusters.
• Supplier Relationships: Build and maintain relationships with external suppliers to ensure effective services delivery.
• Project Planning: Plan projects and ensure effective implementation of these projects, within budget to meet business objectives.
• Project Execution: Execute projects based on project frameworks established and within governance structures and timelines.
• Quality Initiatives: Participate in quality initiatives and corrective actions to address non-conformance to standards.
• Resource Allocation:
• Communication: Develop and maintain communication structures and communicate work requirements and relevant information to direct reports so that they have access to the required tools, equipment, material etc. to perform their tasks to the required standard.
• Team Management: Manage and coordinate marketing and creative staff, lead market research efforts to uncover the viability of current and existing marketing return on investment.
• Media Collaboration: Collaborate with media organizations and advertising agencies.
• Campaign Development: Brainstorm ideas for new online and social media campaigns and traditional media.
• Leadership: Provide leadership to the team, defining objectives to be achieved by the department.
• Strategic Coordination: Coordinate with the sales team and other departments to produce effective strategies. Monitor current campaigns, ensuring staff meet deadlines.
• Workforce Planning: Deploy people and management processes – workforce planning, recruitment & selection, learning and development, performance management, career and succession planning and employee relations etc. in line with organisational policies, procedures and prevailing improvement initiatives.
• Working Environment: Manage the working environment and ensure it contributes to improving staff morale and increasing productivity.
• Operations Review: Design and review operations and organisational structure to support operational plans and strategy, in collaboration with HR.
• Budget Management: Research and develop budgets to meet business requirements and monitor expenses ensuring expenditure is within the budget.
• Return on Investment: Continuously strive for measurable, meaningful returns on marketing expenditure.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to all procurement policies and procedures by maintaining governance, risk and compliance.
• Cost Savings: Continuously strive to save costs.
• Safety Targets: Adhere to and meet all relevant safety targets and measurements within the area of responsibility.
• Safety Regulations: Adhere to and enforce all health and safety regulations and report all safety hazards, accidents and incidents to relevant structures.
• Customer and Supplier Concerns: Actively address all customer and supplier concerns related to marketing activity within the prescribed time frame and processes.
• Legislative Compliance: Adhere to, and lead in the compliance of all relevant legislation, (POPI, FICA, ASA, Communications Act, etc.) Environmental, Health and Safety or any other company required compliance.
• Process Alignment: Develop, update and ensure alignment of all work processes to the required policies, processes, work instructions with governance, risk and compliance requirements.
• Continual Improvement: Proactively identify continual improvement strategies.
• Action Plan: Action and audit findings and agreed improvement initiatives ensuring that they are aligned to tasks/processes/systems.
• Corrective Actions: Implement corrective actions identified and agreed within the specified time.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Educational Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree (3 years) in a relevant field is essential.
• Professional Registration: Registration with MASA - Marketing Association of South Africa would be an advantage.
• Industry Background: Should come from a variety of business or industry backgrounds, where leadership, communication, and aligning creative direction with the company's strategic goals has been demonstrated.
• Marketing Channels: Must have an intimate understanding of traditional and emerging marketing channels.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication and leadership skills, creative and innovative.
• Tech Savviness: Familiarity with the latest trends, methodologies and technologies in web and social media metrics.
• Budget Management: A proven history of budget-management skills and proficiency with a strong governance and compliance component.

Package & Remuneration

Market related.

Interested?

Please apply online.