Snr Assistant Brand Manager_Umhlanga

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Responsibilities:
• Support manager to achieve brand and category marketing goals
• Contribute to the creation of new initiatives including new products, packaging and ideas
• Develop consumer insights and expertise, competitor and marketing understanding, to provide recommendations
• Input in marketing plans
• Set priorities and meet deadlines
• In depth and insightful reporting on category performance
• Work effectively with other team members
• Demonstrate creativity and innovative skills
• Manage cross function teams to execute project and category strategies
• Sound knowledge of marketing mix of portfolio
• May take on assistant/intern for the first time to train

Skills:
• Proactive, takes initiative and highly motivated self-starter
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Strong numeracy skills
• Able to multi-task and achieve targets in a fast-paced environment
• Able to collaborate with all levels and departments of the business
• Demonstrate skills in leadership
• Demonstrate decision making
• Creativity and ability to produce innovation and original ideas
• Time and project management skills
• Advanced computer skills – Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word, online project management platforms e.g. Click Up, Slack

Great track record in Marketing Degree or Honours degree (including Finance/Business Science grads) or IMM Diploma.