Marketing Head - Communications/Advertising

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a HEAD OF MARKETING within our Business Enablement area. If you’re hard-working, passionate, dedicated, and willing to roll up your sleeves to get a result, Our client is a great place to grow your career and learn at the same time. Our client is a 100% black owned and proudly South African company. This position will report to a Director that sits on EXCO and will have between 3-5 people reporting into it.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain an integrated corporate brand, marketing, and communications strategy for all stakeholders.
• Accountable for all internal and external communications, media, PR, marketing, and events.
• Deliver quality projects that drive exceptional client experiences - on plan, on budget and on time.
• Key liaison within all the business units to align on brand value, proposition, and positioning (internal and external).
• Work with internal and stakeholders to ensure alignment of activities and economies of scale principles are applied where possible.
• Responsible for the entire marketing budget, spend, recon and optimisation.
• Conduct ongoing industry and marketing research and development (audience, product, UX, CX and servicing).
• Direct all service and product campaigns (lead and value generation).
• Oversee and Design marketing artifacts to deliver effective product information, positioning, and platform management.
• Report, monitor and analyse marketing and brand activities to show ROMI (lead and value).
• Data Collection and Analysis - Collate and analyse data.
• Lead and manage the division in line with the approved policies, applicable laws, legislations, and delegated authority for operational effectiveness.
• Foster a high-performance corporate culture within marketing that promotes ethical practices and encourages individual and team creativity, integrity, accountability, and social responsibility.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in commerce, marketing, advertising, communication, or any related field.
• 7 – 10 years of working experience in agency, advertising, marketing, or brand management.
• Knowledgeable in general Marketing (both Traditional and Digital) and PR

Competencies and experience

• Financial Services experience advantageous
• Project Management skills
• Ability to implement practical and comprehensive solutions that have long-term impact to the company
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Be passionate about and have the necessary skills to integrate with new technologies
• Must be performance driven with a relentless desire for continual improvement
• Adhere to company culture of continual improvement and innovation e.g., contribute ideas to improve collective performance
• Ability to deliver on multiple large-scale projects