Marketing Communications Lead (Contract)

Budget: R32,250 pm

Location: Stellenbosch, ZA

Working Type: Hybrid, 2-3 days per week in Stellenbosch

Contract Type: Full-time Contract - 6 months

Key Performance Areas:

• Campaign Management: From conception to the execution, you will steer the direction for all the internal product campaigns and relevant stakeholder campaigns that bring the clients culture and brand alive.
• Ownership of Key Strategic Initiative: Speaker series events are experiences for our people. Your role is to pitch the concept, involve your stakeholders, support business objectives, and activate it with some fun.
• Reporting: Keep us in the loop with weekly & monthly reports that are as insightful as they are incisive.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build bridges and forge alliances with stakeholders who share our vision.

Key Tasks and Accountabilities:

• Content Management:
  • Ideate and contract development of required content
  • Develop, plan and lead the execution of effective communication strategies, aligned to the Marketing product calendar, Tactical campaigns and employer brand strategy
  • Be a collaboration ninja: Align with your stakeholders to support their objectives for the year ahead.
• Ask ‘how can we do this better’? Make suggestions and strive for progression on every campaign we support or develop.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Be the key point of contact for Internal stakeholders (for relevant product owners / stakeholders). 
  • Prepare presentations and campaign proposals. 
  • Have a thorough understanding of portfolio team deliverables (aligned to book of work) and agree on supporting activities.
  • Align to meeting routines to remain in touch with the upcoming needs
• Functional Leadership:  Be the go-to guru for this function and own the portfolio end-to-end

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum: 3-5 years of brand marketing and/or communications experience in a dynamic, client-centric environment. You’ve been the agency ace, the project prodigy, and the storytelling superstar.‍
• Ideal: Your journey has taken you through the realms of FMCG, retail, banking, or services. You’re a digR pundit, or an internal communications commander.

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