Job description

Black Snow Group is an integrated marketing agency with impressive client roster is looking for a digital marketing strategist with a minimum of five+ years’ experience in a strategic role with digital marketing.

The role requires a digitally savvy, innovator, a trendsetter, and a progressive thinker who can connect digital to all other aspects of a client business and drive growth opportunities. The person we are looking for is dynamic, profit driven, strategically-minded + digital, experienced, connected, great fun and able to sell at the highest level.

Role:

Your primary role is to build our client base through developing digital marketing and communication strategies that deliver against our client’s business objectives and to maximise sales, enhance the company bottom line and ensure the good reputation of the business is upheld.

You will be required to prepare award-winning pitches and presentations (360° planning including digital) and be responsible for the promoting the agency services. Must have the experience and skill to produce comprehensive strategy, proposals and presentations as well as present them.

Strategy

Play an advisory role on client engagements, serving as a strategy advisor to both account leads and clients.

• Develop unique strategies and builds upon current client strategies including the digital arena to meet/exceed objectives.
• Perform detailed evaluation of client business environment including customer needs, capabilities/assets, and competitive realities to identify unique market opportunities and threats.
• Lead the design of insight driven strategies from opportunity identification through to experience definition.
• Proactively keeps abreast of assigned clients’ marketing and media plans, and provides technological solutions including rich media, site optimisation, promotional ideas, mobile, social networks, viral, etc.
• Partner with creative, technology, analytics and account management to ensure successful project hand-off and work is appropriately positioned for long-term success.
• Research and analysis market trends, demographics, competitor pricing schedules, competitor services, and other relevant information to form marketing strategies

New businessDemonstrate an ongoing ability to work collaboratively with our company’s management and other agency teams on RFPs, tenders, meetings, presentations, etc.

• Assist in fostering new business, prepare and presents winning strategic pitches and presentations
• Identifying and penetrating new clientele and following up with quality client service
• Demonstrate an ongoing ability to work collaboratively with our company’s management and other agency teams on RFPs, tenders, meetings, presentations, etc.
• Analysing potential strategic partner relationships for business marketing activities

Company Description

Established in October 2009, Black Snow Group is one of the top digitally-led branding and marketing companies in South Africa, servicing smart brands nationally and globally. We have subsequently grown into a well-balanced, progressive and bold marketing team with expert knowledge in all things marketing.

Requirements

In order to succeed you will need agency to show experience within migital marketing – Social media, SEO and paid marketing but not limited to and would include other marketing channels.

• South African citizen
• Reliable transport (own reliable vehicle essential)
• Minimum of a degree, diploma or equivalent in digital marketing
• Minimum five+ years in a strategy role with experience (Agency Experience a must)
• Superior communication skills, both internal and client-facing
• Research and writing skills are essential
• Ability to very effectively communicate agency capabilities and brand personality to prospect

Advantageous

• Leadership/management experience would be an advantage

Personal skills/attributes

• A hands-on and professional approach with both clients and team members
• Highly attentive to detail – you are a “well-organised” freak
• Prepared to work late (if needed) go the extra mile!
• Must be able to perform under pressure and deliver on fixed timelines
• Must have excellent ability to work with people within cross functional teams
• Must have strong networking, facilitation and negotiation skills
• A strategic and creative thinker who is confident, self-motivated, articulate and practical.

If you have not heard back from us within 14 working days, please note that your application has been unsuccessful.

Important: No recruiters, please.

Posted on 23 Nov 10:50

New Work Here is a smart tech product hub and Fintech working a wealth of offshore projects in the mining and aeronautical industry, and they are bleeding for some devs to aid their latest gig within their capital arm.

They are looking for two C# Full Stack developers with deep skills in JavaScript and TypeScript. You’ll be part of a diverse, smart, agile, and fairly laid-back team; passionate about tech, open to new (bigger, better) ideas. You will work on evolving projects, you will learn and you will prosper.

You’ll get the freedom to do the work you want to do all while collaborating within a respect-driven dev team. You’ll also be supported, coached, and taught their tricks.

Some soft perks include flexi-time, generous leave, Beer o’clock scrums, full Medical aid, provident fund + bonus.

Have I got your attention? This is how you can get mine:

• Six to eight years of key experience coding in the Microsoft Stack
• You are clued up in C#, ASP.Net, .Net Core, Web API, SQL
• You are actively working with JavaScript and TypeScript
• Some skills in React will earn you points
• You have decent Azure Cloud experience
• You have a knack for analytics/mathematics

Qualifications:

• Degreed in computer science or similar
• Top grades in maths in school

Reference number for this position is ND49329-2020 which is a permanent position based in Johannesburg; offering a salary of R900,000 cost to company, salary negotiable on experience. Contact Nicole on az.oc.egrem-e@delocin or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 18 Nov 11:57

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