Preference will be given to previously disadvantaged candidates.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a newly qualified graduate to join an established marketing team at a prestigious financial concern. We’re looking for a future marketing genius to grow in their team and help them improve their partnerships with business. This opening is a truly awesome chance for an exceptional, enthusiastic, energetic and confident candidate to launch their marketing career in style! Go on, wow us!

Requirements

The successful candidate must have/be:

• A business science or commerce university degree with a major in marketing/diploma from AAA School of Advertising, or VEGA and/or the Red and Yellow School of Advertising.
• A flare for marketing.
• Strong administrative skills.
• Some writing skills.
• Understanding of the web and digital as a marketing channel.
• Creative flair to assist team with developing communication and experiential ideas.
• Able to conduct desk research projects.
• High energy levels, willingness to learn and initiative to go the extra mile.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Should you not receive a response within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Company Description

Viv Gordon Placements (VGP) is a specialist recruitment agency in the advertising, marketing, media, public relations and publishing industries.

Posted on 15 Dec 19:42

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Environment:

A Cape Town based transaction technology research and development house requires a software tester to be responsible for ensuring excellent quality for several software products. The role includes assisting with product development and performing quality assurance on a number of products, creating and maintaining testing environments, providing product support and product integration with other systems. SQL Query writing essential.

Duties:

• The primary function of this role is to perform quality assurance for several software products, to create and maintain testing environments, and to provide product support and product integration with other systems.

In addition, the duties and responsibilities of this role include:

• Documenting and executing regression, functional, and integration tests
• Providing support to development, QA and project teams when required
• Compiling documentation describing product functions and features
• Troubleshooting and managing software bugs and defects
• Working with developers and the QA team to complete tasks within allocated timeframes
• Providing daily feedback to the department head

Requirements:

Desired skills and experience:

The following areas of expertise are needed or would be advantageous in this role:

• Experience of testing complex software systems
• Experience with writing SQL queries
• Excellent understanding of testing concepts
• Experience of creating manual test plans and test cases
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Exposure to software development methodologies
• Understanding of QA and testing methodologies
• Strong analytical, methodical and troubleshooting skills
• Exposure to software testing utilities such as SoapUI and LoadUI
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• A high level of persuasiveness and credibility
• An analytical approach to problem-solving
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Experience with platform and operating system architecture
• Ability to perform operating system and software installations
• Knowledge of Windows operating systems
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems would be an advantage
• Knowledge of databases and Microsoft SQL Server
• Knowledge of the Oracle Java Runtime Environment
• Knowledge of front-end and back-end systems
• Experience with both web applications and client-server applications
• Knowledge of common protocols and standards such as HTML, XML, CSS, TCP/IP, SSL and FTP
• Exposure to ISO 8583 or ISO 20022 payment protocols would be an advantage

Attributes:

• It is important that the candidate enjoys working and interacting with product and development teams to identify and resolve problems and that they are able to develop test strategies, test plans and test cases based on business and functional requirements.
• The candidate needs to be detail-orientated and driven to produce world-class quality solutions based on industry best practices. They must be passionate about great user experiences and knowledgeable about testing methodologies.
• It is important that the candidate can interact easily with both business and technology stakeholders, keep abreast of current trends in e-commerce and financial technology, and constantly strive for innovative solutions to ensure better processes and effective quality assurance testing.
• The successful candidate will be a team player who is an avid learner and engages with knowledge sharing both inter-departmentally and intra-departmentally.

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

Comments:

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Posted on 15 Dec 14:43

Job description

What does a job title like this actually mean? Part –  B2B Strategist, Project Manager and a whole lot of inbound magic! But you are better off reading the ‘war & peace’ below…

It’s time to drink our own champagne and we need you to help us!

This is the slightly ironic story of a digital marketing agency with off the chart growth despite their own digital marketing. There is only so much up-selling, cross-selling and word of mouth referrals that an agency can take before their triple-digit growth plateaus. We don’t do plateaus!

It’s criminal that we aren’t doing what does so well for our clients, ourselves. But instead of beating ourselves up about it, let’s focus on how you can help us drink our own champagne and make sure we don’t plateau in 2018!

We Need to Own this Vertical

We are a B2B agency. As my Dad always said ‘there is a lot of money in boring’.  We started out as a B2B/technology agency and although we still work with the likes of Microsoft, HP and SAP we realised earlier this year that we are never going to own this vertical market.

We don’t like ‘plateaus’ and we certainly don’t like the potential of not ‘owning a vertical’.

Earlier this year we looked at our B2B client base and saw that it was our B2B Event clients that we were making the biggest impact with. We could own their digital strategy. In this market there are very few specialist agencies and the global B2B event market (Trade Shows, Conferences, Exhibitors, Inhouse Event Management) runs into the multi-multi of billions a year. The icing on the cake is that on average 25% of B2B marketing budgets are spent on events. We need you to help us own this vertical!

A Lofty Digital Strategy – Executed

While few and far between, we have all seen companies that can’t help but be brilliant (even in B2B). Their brand voice sings your song, every white paper they produce you simply can’t resist downloading, every blog they write hits the mark, their explainer videos look like they have been produced in hollywood, their website is beautiful yet highly functional, their emails make you smile, their social gets more ‘shares’ and ‘likes’ than we have all had hot dinners, their presentations, pitches and proposals virtually close deals without a sales person. We need you to help us be like that!

Are you a Digital Marketing Maestro?  (20% Clouds – 80% Dirt)

To be a digital marketing maestro you live your life ‘in the clouds and in the dirt’  (borrowed that from Gary Vee).

The clouds – describes your quest to discover the unknown, your philosophy to learning, exploration, failure and continuous improvement, it’s about your need to understand what’s disrupting today and especially tomorrow — it’s about never accepting ‘its always been done like this’ it’s about your digital agility.  

While we need you in the clouds, it’s imperative that you love to get your hands dirty. The dirt is about being a practitioner, always executing towards those clouds, it’s about hard work, it’s about getting your hands dirty and the experience/learning you get from that.

As our inhouse Marketing Maestro (think orchestra conductor) you’ll help design an integrated strategy which includes

• Website design/development
• Positioning/Messaging
• Persona development
• Database
• Inbound
• Content (multiple formats)
• Social
• Paid Media
• Nurturing (marketing automation)
• CRM integration
• Marketing collateral
• Analytics  

Don’t worry – we have most of the musicians in house, for you to pull these digital components together to make beautiful music. This part is obviously where digital strategy and project management come into play!

Requirements

You: B2B Inbound Marketing Maestro with dirty, mucky hands?

Although our inbound strategy will come in part from your cloud thinking, your greatest passion is seeing the result of content devoured by your target prospects – this is where we really really need you getting dirty.

One of our core values is ‘walk in their shoes, see through their eyes’ which also brilliantly describes our philosophy towards content and our inbound marketing strategy. By deeply understanding the challenges and opportunities our target personas face, you will produce content that not only shows us ‘walking in their shoes’ but poetically ‘walks them through an inbound strategy’ which ends with them saying ‘I should speak to these guys’.

Your Maestro Background (sorry – here is where we use ‘bullet points’)

Our predictor — Your writing ability led you into a digital agency career, which then led you into inbound strategy – which will (hopefully) lead you to us!

• You have two+ years designing and executing B2B inbound strategies

• You are a Content Creator  (this is where your love of dirt comes)

• It’s in your DNA – writing and content creation (we’re probably your English teacher’s favourite)

• You are a Digital Hybrid Marketer (WTF is a Hybrid Digital Marketer?)

• Your Agency Background

What will you get in return

Our success will be directly related to your success so it’s only appropriate that we pay you a good salary with juicy performance bonuses.  With the growth of our agency, you may choose to continue leading our marketing charge (have you CMO aspirations?) or we could turn your focus to our clients. Lastly – our culture is one of extreme fun while getting very dirty! Come and join us in 2018 – help us avoid the B2B walk of shame!

Posted on 14 Dec 11:33