Senior Brand Marketing Manager

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Do you have senior experience as a Marketing Manager and are interested in relocating to Cape Town?Our International Client requires your experience overseeing brand portfolios developing and improving strategies and implementing brand plans.Experience in FMCG within the alcohol / wine / spirits marketing sector essential! We require your excellent relationship building skills coupled with strong emotional intelligence to manage a team of external Brand Executives to work hand in hand with the Head Office teams.Excellent opportunity to drive brand equity analysing marketing results.

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in business administration or Marketing
• 6 years’ experience in marketing analysis, brand building to the role of media, public relations, digital and trade marketing
• Knowledge of the luxury / liquor industry (sales, marketing, business development)
• Solid knowledge in financial & administrative processes
• Exceptional Project planning skills
• Solutions-driven, collaborative attitude and the ability to handle multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint proficient
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to flourish in a high-pressure, deadline-based environment requiring the need to work after hours and often over weekends

DUTIES

• Managing relationships between three divisions dealing with external Executive Brand Managers
• Ensure long term brand strategy for the region’s most important market is developed, clear and aligned with multiple stakeholders
• Work with Distributor team to establish next year’s brand plans and ensure quarterly plans are then executed to drive brand performance in the all important SA market
• Driving the correct project planning processes and following up with Business Managers to ensure timings are adhered to, reducing stress in the system
• Press Release and social media content calendar reviews and pre-approval before final sign off
• Provides local teams with the set of tools and executions to drive commercial and brand equity results
• Event and activation execution review – ensuring brand cohesion and consistency and Activation excellence
• Collating, reviewing and analysing marketing results to drive a mind-set of continuous improvement from a fact-based basis (and supplying Best Practice excellence to the region
• Being clear on implications of annual brand health tracking and other marketing research results to ensure brand plans reflect critical insights and implications
• With Market Director, tracking competitive activity and performance in the market-place and evaluating long or short term course corrections required
• Taking a lead / pro-actively pushing and creating initiatives on some of the smaller brands for longer term performance
• Handling all platform queries: guidelines, artwork, issues, etc.
• Support on day-to-day marketing topics liaising with Distributor brand managers across the portfolio.
• Ensuring distributor presentations and reports meet company standards
• Development of market visit agendas and ensuring all logistical requirements are handled before and during the visit

Salary: R negotiable dependent on experience

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Because we specialise in Companies, not specific industries, our focus is your company’s individual CULTURE and DYNAMICS . We are a Cape Town based boutique recruitment agency, who have been running for 14 years and can, collectively, offer well over 70 years of experience to our clients. We believe each of our clients deserves our time to research and collate all relevant data around their company in order for us to present the best candidates. We do not simply send through a CV.

We ensure the MATCHING has been done to a “T”, which includes your COMPANY and CULTURE requirements, so you only receive the best and we save your TIME !

How do we deliver positive results saving you TIME?

• A unique take-on process, eliminating TIME wasting for all parties concerned.
• Solution driven, for when problems occur.
• Experts in screening all the resumes that cross our path, ensuring we find the perfect MATCH .
• Hands-on, from interview process, placement and beyond, making sure that solid relationships are cemented.
• Continually keeping abreast of South Africa’s stringent Labour Laws.

Why should you be going through the painstaking process of sifting through a mountain of CV’s?

Your focus needs to be on your job function, most times you end up just recruiting someone out of pure frustration, exhaustion and desperation.

It is vitally important not to rush a recruitment process .

Our service TURN AROUND TIME is our success factor.