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Trends Analyst – Lifestyle/Food (Cape Town)

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Remuneration: Market related 
Location: Cape Town
Job level: Senior
Type: Permanent
Reference: #99CSG56
Company: ninety9cents

Job description

Ninety9cents is a full-service, integrated advertising agency, with its head office located in Cape Town, and is one of South Africa’s largest independently owned agencies. Led by founder and MD Andrew Brand, the agency’s extensive client base includes leading brands such as Shoprite/Checkers, Ackermans, Puma, Spur Group, Capitec and Distell, to name but a few. We have a position available for a well-rounded trends analyst. 

Requirements

Summary of main duties
Strategy:

  • Work closely with specialists in each marketing channel/department to create effective and holistic content strategies across all channels.
  • Work closely with strategy team to map out a content strategy that supports and extends marketing initiatives, both short- and long-term, determining which methods work for the brand and why.
  • Work closely with strategy to help the client identify the customer personas, segment customers by needs or interests, develop key message points, and ultimately help develop the roadmap to a content plan that addresses each customer segment effectively.
  • Continuous evolvement of strategy and communication of that strategy (internally and externally) is a must.

 Creative:

  • Work closely with Creative Director, or similar, on all creative and branding initiatives to ensure alignment of messaging needs across channels.
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Production:

  • Work closely with Client Service, Account Management and Project Management teams to understand, make recommendations and deliver on content needs for campaigns.
  • Work closely with Social Media, Email Marketing and Website teams to understand, make recommendations and deliver on content needs for campaigns.
  • Work closely with technical team to define practical content requirements for delivery and upload.
  • Work closely with Client/Brand Team to define ongoing brand stories across channels and manage regular output of content team.
  • Responsible for Content Partners and communicating the use of these content partners to both internal and external teams.
  • Manage regular partners to ensure delivery of content.
  • Proactive partnership opportunities.

SEO:

  • Responsible for ensuring that all content created for brand or campaign align with SEO objectives.
  • Ensure that all content includes SEO attributes such as a descriptive title, metadata, a relevant keyword focus, images with relevant tags, etc.
  • Ensure that all content is SEO friendly and is shareable through social media according to keyword best practice.

Measurement:

  • Gathering data and handle analytics (or work with those who do) and implement recommendations based on those results.
  • Leveraging market data to develop content themes/topics and execute a plan to develop the assets that support a point of view.
  • Communicate effectiveness of content for campaigns with project owners.
  • Communicate effectiveness of content with client via monthly reporting.

Management:

  • Single point of contact and owner for all content across all channels.
  • Responsible for the management of content creators from creation to deployment.
  • Supervising writers, editors, and content strategists; be an arbiter of best practices in grammar, messaging, writing and style.
  • Responsible for budgets, timelines and project management of content within or outside of projects. 
  • Responsible for the development of a functional content calendar throughout the brand verticals, and working closely with the owners in each vertical.
  • Developing standards, systems and best practices (both human and technological) for content creation, distribution, maintenance, content retrieval and content repurposing, including the real-time implementation of content strategies.
  • Establishing workflow for requesting, creating, editing, publishing and retiring content.
  • Participation in the hiring and supervising of content/story leaders in all content verticals.

Defining content needs at 99c:

  • Content team: Is responsible for creating long-lasting content plans. This plan is communicated to all teams in order for them to utilise as part of their campaigns.  
  • Technical: There is a team responsible for the strategy and frame in which content appears. This includes being aware of content to use as part of their broader strategy/implementation requirements.
  • Marketing: There is a team responsible for delivering on project or campaign objectives, and is aware of content available to assist in reaching broader strategy objectives.
  • Creative: Will assist with content creation where needed (design, video, content writing) and generate the creative ideas to promote the content available as part of individual briefs or campaign briefs.

Skills required:

  • Editorial skills, with a proven track record in food and lifestyle journalism
  • Nose for the story – storyteller
  • Lead and inspire teams of content creators and creatives
  • Long and short form content creation and strong understanding of distribution
  • Think like an educator and understand the audience needs
  • A passion for new technology tools
  • Clear articulation of the business goal behind the creation of content
  • Project management skills to manage editorial schedules and deadlines
  • Familiar with the principles of marketing
  • Great people skills
  • Basic technical understanding of HTML, XHTML, CSS, Java, web publishing, Flash, etc.
  • Fluency in web analytics tools for website, social, mailer etc.
  • A willingness to embrace change
  • Powers of persuasion
  • Organised
  • Continually learning the latest platforms

If you have not received a response to your application within two weeks, please consider your application as unsuccessful. Applications from EE candidates will be considered with preference in compliance with the EE Act.

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Supervisor (Port Elizabeth)

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Location: Port Elizabeth, Baywest
Reference: #CT002290/MR
Company: MPRTC Recruitment

A renowned fashion retail company is seeking to employ a supervisor in Baywest, Port Elizabeth.

Please note:
If you do not fit the specification with the minimum requirements your application will not be accepted for this position. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete an assessment or test to demonstrate your knowledge of this position.

Requirements:

  • Matric/grade 12 certificate
  • Previous experience in a similar role, in the fashion retail industry
  • Successful track record in achieving turnover targets
  • Excellent leadership skills and ability to develop and motivate staff
  • Must have financial understanding of retail profit factors
  • Controlling the expenses of the branch
  • Understanding stock control to ensure stock levels are always on the correct levels and allocated correctly and minimise stock losses
  • Be computer literate (experience on point of sale systems)
  • Valid code eight drivers licence and own transport 

Applicants must reside in Baywest, Port Elizabeth or surrounding area.

Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.

Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful. 

Visit our website to view all of our current vacancies: www.mprtc.co.za

Posted on 20 Nov 07:50

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Inside Edition’s Deborah Norville Dropped 30 Lbs. After a Decade of Feeling ‘Terrible’ About Her Body

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For “an entire decade,” Deborah Norville hated the way her body looked.

“I felt terrible,” the Inside Edition host, 60, tells PEOPLE. “I didn’t like walking into a room; I didn’t like walking out of a room, because the view both ways was horrible.”

But beyond aesthetics, Norville was developing health problems made worse by genetics.

“I have a family history of a lot of cardiac problems,” she says. “My big wake-up call was my blood pressure was up, and I was really angry about it, because I don’t eat a lot of garbage. But my doctor looked at me, and he said, ‘At a certain point you can’t escape your genetics.’ I said, ‘Well, my blood pressure wouldn’t be so high if I wasn’t so fat.’ So he said do something about it. Lose some weight.”

RELATED: 9 Ways to Quit Sugar for Good

From there, Norville decided to completely cut out all sugar.

It wasn’t easy, because it is in everything,” she says. “It took me about a solid three weeks of me being incredibly purposeful about avoiding sugar. You will be slack jawed about how much added sugar there is, when you start reading your labels. I looked at my half and half and the second ingredient was corn syrup. That turned me into a dilettante about reading the labels.”

RELATED: 6 Really Good Things That Happen to Your Body When You Quit Sugar

Ditching sugar meant talking herself out of the candy bowl in the office break room and ignoring the boxes of crackers with hidden sucrose, but after the first three weeks, she found that her taste buds had changed.

“I started to realize it was working when I ate half an apple — and it tasted so sweet to me,” she says.

Norville also started eating fresh foods as much as possible, like high-fiber vegetables that she would simply roast with olive oil and spices like turmeric and curry. And each morning, she mixed up a bowl of oatmeal with flaxseeds.

RELATED: 10 Artificial Sweeteners and Sugar Substitutes

Without really intending to lose a certain amount of weight, Norville dropped 30 lbs. in about eight months.

“I am very satisfied with where I am now,” she says. “Frankly, I look pretty darn good. I can fit in a dress that I bought the year after I graduated high school, and that makes me pretty darn proud.”

RELATED: This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Sugar

Plus, Norville’s blood pressure numbers are “definitely better” — and “I feel good,” she says.

And while she was strict with herself at the start, Norville will let herself have wine during the holiday season — she’s just staying away from the hors d’oeuvres.

“Unfortunately one of the things with sugar is wine, but I’m not an absolutist about that,” she says. “I’m not going to eat those pigs in a blanket though, because it’s not worth it. You do a little cost-benefit analysis in your head.”

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Receptionist / Relief Cashier – Cape Town

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RECEPTIONIST / RELIEF CASHIER – CAPE TOWN in Western Cape | PA/Secretary | Job Mail | 4326523

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A TECHNICAL RETAIL SUPPLIER ARE LOOKING FOR A RECEPTIONIST / RELIEF CASHIER IN CAPE TOWN

Please Note:

If you do not fit the specification with the minimum requirements your application will not be accepted for this position. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete an Assessment or Test to demonstrate your knowledge of this position.

Requirements:

  • Grade 12/ Matric
  • 1 – 2 years’ experience within a similar role
  • Valid Driver’s License and Own Transport
  • Excellent Administration skills
  • Computer Literate
  • SYSPRO (Advantage)
  • Excellent Written and Verbal Communication Skills
  • Experience doing full Cashier Functions

 

Applicants must reside in CAPE TOWN or surrounding area.

Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.

Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

 

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Store Manager (pavilion)

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STORE MANAGER (PAVILION) in Kwazulu-Natal | Retail Wholesale | Job Mail | 4338749

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  • Remuneration : PER MONTH
  • Employment Type : Full Time
  • Industry :
  • Retail
    Retail Wholesale
  • Region : Kwazulu-Natal
  • Company : MPRTC Recruitment

A RETAIL STORE DEALING WITH OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT REQUIRES A STORE MANAGER IN PAVILION

Qualification

  • Grade 12/ Matric

Experience 

  • 2 – 4 years’ experience in Retail Management
  • Excellent Managerial Skills
  • Financial Understanding of Retail Profit Factors
  • Understanding Stock Control

Skills

  • Computer Literate (POS)
  • Proven Record for sales, stock loss control and Staff training skills
  • Excellent Customer Relations skills
  • Fluent in Afrikaans

Info: Applicants must reside in PAVILION or surrounding area. 

Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful. 

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Supervisor – Baywest, Port Elizabeth

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RENOWNED FASHION RETAIL COMPANY IS SEEKING TO EMPLOY A SUPERVISOR IN BAYWEST, PORT ELIZABETH

Please Note:

If you do not fit the specification with the minimum requirements your application will not be accepted for this position. Shortlisted candidates may be required to complete an Assessment or Test to demonstrate your knowledge of this position.

Requirements:

  • Matric/ Grade 12 certificate
  • Previous experience in a similar role, in the fashion retail industry
  • Successful track record in achieving turnover targets
  • Excellent leadership skills and ability to develop and motivate staff
  • Must have financial understanding of retail profit factors
  • Controlling the expenses of the branch
  • Understanding stock control to ensure stock levels are always on the correct levels and allocated correctly and minimize stock losses
  • Be computer Literate (experience on point of sale systems)
  • Valid code 8 driver’s license and own transport

 

Applicants must reside in BAYWEST, PORT ELIZABETH or surrounding area.

Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.

Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

 

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News24.com | DA in Limpopo in panic mode after move to oust it from political power

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The DA in Limpopo is in panic mode after a move to oust it from political power at the Modimolle-Mookgophong Municipality through two separate motions of no confidence filed by the ANC and EFF.

This was worsened by the resolution of the provincial executive to invoke Section 139(1) (c) which deals with the dissolution of the municipal council and the appointment of an administrator until a new council is elected, if exceptional circumstances warrant such a step.

The ANC and EFF are to use their combined numbers in the council to oust the DA, which gained power through a coalition with the EFF and Freedom Front after the August 2016 municipal elections.

The ANC has 12 seats, the DA holds seven, and the EFF and Freedom Front have five and two respectively.

The ANC has filed a motion against mayor Marlene van Staden. The EFF wants the whole political management team – Van Staden, speaker Dingaan Motshwene and chief whip Hercules Louw – removed.

But DA provincial leader, Jacques Smalle, told the media on Monday that the motions of no confidence were driven by sinister motives.

“These motions came at a time of the imminent release of a forensic audit investigation preliminary report which is likely to incriminate the failing ANC and EFF politicians and some municipal officials into irregularities of tenders and contracts awarded [in] the last two years,” Smalle said.

“In addition to this, the municipality is in the process of awarding several tenders to the value of tens of millions of rands. The DA was reliably informed that the motions are allegedly aimed at stopping the release of the forensic investigation and to elect an ANC/EFF coalition of corruption to share in a tender scheme with an eye on raising funds for both parties’ 2019 election campaigns,” he said.

The municipality is currently under administration, but Smalle reiterated that the challenges were inherited from the previous ANC administration. He said the DA/EFF coalition at the Thabazimbi Municipality remain intact despite numerous efforts by the ANC to wrestle power back after it was removed from power in the 2016 municipal elections.

At a separate media briefing, Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism MEC Seaparo Sekoati announced an executive decision to invoke Section 139(c) at its special meeting in Bela-Bela.

The reasons include that the municipality remains severely cash-strapped and unable to fulfil its constitutional obligations. It’s unable to pay creditors within the stipulated 30 days and credit stands at R448m as at October this year of which R354m is over by 20 days.

“Since the intervention, there has been notable slow progress to turn around the state of affairs at Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality. The progress is hampered by continuous disruptions,” Sekoati said.

“The executive committee does not meet [as] regularly as it should due to the meetings not forming a quorum occasioned by last-minute apologies by members, while the municipality convenes more special meetings than ordinary council meetings which implies that council committees are dysfunctional,” he said.

However, Smalle later told News24 that he believed the decision was politically driven.

“I think it’s premature and it is clear that this is linked towards the DA. There is seven days to respond and this still has to be referred to the minister and has to be debated in council. There is still a lot of water to run.”

He said the ANC and EFF motions could still be debated before a council could be dissolved.

Meanwhile, the Fetakgomo-Tubatse Municipality which lost millions of rands invested in the now liquidated VBS Mutual Bank, is technically bankrupt and has been placed under administration.

Sekoati said the risk of community unrest was mounting as service delivery projects have come to a halt and creditors were not being paid, among other problems.

News24.com | Zuma: ‘2019 polls outweigh 1994 election, opposition must also vote for ANC’

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The 2019 general elections are more significant to the ANC than the first democratic elections in 1994, former president Jacob Zuma said on Monday.

“When we voted for the first time, we were excited and happy that [former president Nelson] Mandela was released from prison. We have serious challenges now which need us to be tough and disciplined. Even opposition members must vote for the ANC, but remain in their parties,” Zuma said.

He was speaking to scores of people during an ANC KwaZulu-Natal campaign trail in Clermont, west of Durban.

“We must protect this freedom. Poverty came with land dispossession and if we can sort [out] the land issue, poverty would be eradicated.”

He said people should be bothered by people who said the land was theirs but were born somewhere else.

“Instead they should say: ‘Let’s resolve this,’ and not make it difficult,” Zuma said.

Zuma said if he was a priest, he would have likened the ANC to “Alpha and Omega”.

“The ANC is the beginning and the end. If you love your party and [you are] sentimental, I’m not fighting with you. But cast your vote where it will be put into good use and then stay in your party,” he said.

He said he has heard other parties “speak” but “none” had explained how they would help the community more than the ANC.

“That party doesn’t exist yet,” he said.

ALSO READ: I will do anything to save the soul of the ANC – Mabuza

He said some parties wanted the ANC to get less than 50% of votes at next year’s elections, “so that it becomes weak and can’t govern by itself but instead form a coalition with another party”.

“We don’t want that. We want a two-thirds majority.”

Zuma warned ANC members who were still hesitant about voting next year because they held different views about the party’s current leadership.

“I don’t want to hear people saying: ‘I don’t know if I’ll vote’. Has the ANC changed? No. But you’re voting for the ANC. You can’t fight with an individual and fight with the ANC. The ANC comes first. The people should not be hesitant to vote for the ANC. It’s not for the first time that there have been different opinions,” he said.

Having different views from another party member did not mean you were enemies, Zuma warned.

“Some members might elect Zuma, but it doesn’t mean he is the ANC itself. It’s just for a time being. After a period of time, he will leave and then you can elect the one you love. It’s a mistake to let that leader die with the ANC,” warned Zuma.

He also used the occasion to take a jibe at other political parties.

“The difference between the ANC and other political parties is that they were built on different views. Some were angry and some were expelled from the ANC. That’s why they are called parties. There’s no other party called a liberation movement like the ANC because the ANC was built by the nation,” he said.

ALSO READ: It doesn’t matter where or what time, ANC can send me, says ‘pensioner’ Zuma

He urged ANC supporters to treat next year’s election as “do or die”.

“We can’t let other parties take the freedom we fought for by not voting. They’ll take it and play with it because they don’t know how it came about. You must wake even those who are sick, push them in a wheelbarrow to a voting station and take them back to bed when they have voted. One vote makes a difference,” he said.

Zuma began his day by visiting a shopping centre in Umlazi, south of Durban, in the morning.

Sport24.co.za | Gatland wants to avoid ONE topic ahead of Bok Test

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Cape Town – Wales coach Warren Gatland hopes at least one topic of discussion will be avoided ahead of Saturday’s Test against South Africa in Cardiff.

“The biggest thing for me – and the players are the same – is that the last thing we want is a media debate about the Welsh No 10s,” Gatland told the Wales Online website.

The Wales mentor is spoilt for choice at No 10, with all of Gareth Anscombe, Dan Biggar and Rhys Patchell in contention.

Biggar produced a man-of-the-match performance when he started at flyhalf in last Saturday’s 74-24 win over Tonga, while his replacement Patchell was impressive when he came on in the final quarter.

However, in the 9-6 win over Australia earlier this month, it was Anscombe who started at flyhalf, while Biggar came on as a fullback replacement.

“All three of the 10s have played well and that’s a great position for me to be in,” said Gatland.

Gatland added that the media debate around who should start at flyhalf “has been going on forever and they don’t want to be stuck in the middle of that”.

“I think whoever is involved against South Africa will see it as a big opportunity and whoever misses out will be very disappointed. It’s a position where we have different players with different strengths, but we’re in a good position there.”

While Wales are pondering their starting flyhalf, the Springboks look more settled in the position.

Handre Pollard was the man-of-the-match in the 26-20 win over Scotland in Edinburgh, while Elton Jantjies seems content with a bench role.

Jantjies was impressive when he came on in the second half at Murrayfield, with Pollard seamlessly slotting into the inside centre berth.