Marketing and Procurement Support (Kew, JHB)

Responsibilities:

• Assist the Procurement department in the listing of new stock items
• Establishing new suppliers
• Assist with admin for price updates to shop/shelf talker templates for group
• Management of detailed information collation for all branches
• Administrative assistance for any overflow work within the procurement department as and when needed
• Manage responses and incoming workflow from the company’s general email inbox
• Creative design collaboration with Graphic designer for certain print media publications

Social Media Tasks Include:

• Implementation of ad campaigns for listed products & departments
• Calendar planning and content creation for marketing via social media (Facebook and Instagram) on all products for each department within the stores on a month-to-month basis following monthly promotions brief
• Managing social media customer reviews, queries, and interactions.
• Managing sponsored ad campaigns via social media
• Overseeing creative designs/ copy for company campaigns (at least 2 x main campaigns monthly)
• Generation of ad spend budgets to be implemented and monitored per booking
• Populating information of campaign analysis to record KPI data for company records
• Compile mailer of active campaigns for in-house mailing lists (2 x main campaigns monthly)
• Implementation of sponsored campaigns of various supplier initiatives (including the launching of new products/competitions/advertorials/brand awareness)
• Monitor Facebook and IG pages regularly, and ensure stories are updated at optimal times to showcase catalogue promotions and services on offer
• HR Administrative tasks include preparations for various vacancy positions to advertise on chosen platforms (namely Facebook) including copy preparation/ sponsored advert booking (budget confirmation)
• Manage Google pages for the various branches nationwide - uploading content, google ads, and responding to customer reviews per branch.
• Updating Google pages with special trading hours, Public holiday information, or special announcements

Skills: Outlook / MS Word / Excel, Google+ Business / Adverts/ Adwords / Gmail , PowerPoint , SharePoint , Social Media for business (Facebook/ Instagram)