Marketing Manager - Sandton, South Africa - Monocle Solutions

Description

Monocle Solutions:

At Monocle, we believe work is more than a job. It is a chance to make a difference in the world of finance. An opportunity to fulfil your potential. To make friendships with ambitious, positive, like-minded people.

To gain invaluable industry experience and learn critical skills that will set you up for a successful career in marketing.

Monocle is a people-centric, independent consulting firm, specialising in banking and insurance. We understand that our greatest asset is our people and because of this, we do things a bit differently.


Monocle offers:

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Unparalleled growth and exposure - Monocle is uniquely positioned in the market to undertake projects across a wide spectrum of critical and exciting areas of the financial services industry. Our managers deliver mission critical projects at the most prestigious banks and insurers in Johannesburg, Cape Town, London and Amsterdam.
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Unlimited training and development - Investment in our people's development is at the heart of Monocles company ethos. That is why we prioritise the upskilling of every employee.
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Unique and vibrant company culture - At Monocle, we believe friends work better together than colleagues. We love nothing more than partaking in a wide variety of activities through our company sponsored clubs.
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Ultra-competitive compensation - At Monocle, we want the best talent to join our team, so we understand that those individuals need to be recognised and rewarded for their true value.


What is Monocle:

Monocle is an industry-leading management consulting firm specialising in banking and insurance.

Through our bespoke consultancy service, we work with leading banks and large financial institutions, in South Africa, UK and Europe, to transform the way these institutions do business by implementing innovative and results-driven solutions.

Monocles services are highly sought after in the industry for the delivery of mission critical projects, as our versatile knowledge of banking, data systems, quantitative experience and strategic insight allows us to provide a unique service to our clients.

What are we looking for:

As a Marketing Manager, you should have a passion for building brands, strong attention to detail, a broad range of marketing expertise and capable project management abilities.

If you have a creative way of thinking and innovative ideas to build our brand through multiple channels, we would love you to join our team.

As a Marketing Manager at Monocle your main tasks and responsibilities will include supporting the marketing team to:

• Partner the marketing lead in developing plans and execute against the marketing strategy.
• Autonomously manage multichannel marketing campaigns.
• Oversee the execution across a range of marketing mediums.
• Take business imperatives and translate them into marketing objectives and plans.
• Partner our internal stakeholders to build our marketing strategies through competitor research, platform knowledge, benchmarking, messaging, and target audience identification.
• Oversee the daytoday content and engagement of our owned marketing channels to continuously improve our presence, develop our brand and grow our audience.
• Formulate insights and improvements based off key marketing and business objectives (ROI and KPIs).
• Identify trends and insights while optimising spend and performance based on research and insights.
• Develop new and creative approaches and campaigns.
• Stay up to date with the latest marketing trends, technologies, and social media best practices.
• Build Monocles market presence, amplifying the message as an employee of choice and preferred execution partner to our clients.

The following areas will be part of your responsibility:

• Developing and executing against Monocles international marketing strategy.
• Oversee the success of our owned marketing channels.
• Ensuring Monocle is positioned as an employer of choice.
• Conceptual campaign creation.
• Campaign execution.
• Campaign analytics and optimisation.
• Sponsorship and event management.
• Internal communication management.
• Campaign budget management.
• Customer relationship management.
• Marketing data base management.
• Holds a relevant Marketing Degree.
• Minimum 5 to 7 years of marketing experience.
• Hands on experience across multiple marketing channels for a professional services brand.
• Experience in B2B marketing.
• Experience in managing multifaceted campaigns.
• Indepth analytical ability and dashboarding capabilities.
• Strong understanding of the financial services industry.
• Proven ability to working across a variety of geographies, in particular the UK and EU.
• Has 2 to 3 years management experience.
• Proven communication and project management skills.
• A team player able to effectively own key marketing activities and deal with top management.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Creative and proactive.
• An interest in banking and