Job description

We are looking for a creative retail visual merchandiser to increase sales, get buyer’s attention, and to provide an excellent in-store, website and ecommerce experience.The goal is to use visual merchandising to convert window shoppers into prospects, drive branding and sales objectives and maximise profitability.In addition to retail visual merchandising, you will be working across our wide range of clients creating mood boards that provide creative direction for their websites photography, videos for their social media and digital marketing campaigns. The goal for the digital campaigns is the same as retail, to convert website visitors into shoppers, and social media exposure into sales. Responsibilities

• Define, design and implement a creative visual merchandising strategy (Instore, businesses and online)
• Create appealing & eye-catching visual displays that lead the customer through the entire store, and could be carried through to online marketing assets (Website and Social media)
• Produce window displays, signs, interior displays, floor plans and special promotions displays
• Identify key messages & set a clear image of the end result
• Come up with, revise & present design ideas with assistant merchandisers
• Act in alignment to the organization’s culture, products, image and target market
• Monitor costs & work within budget
• Oversee the production & brief staff on arranging displays
• Change displays to promote new product launches & reflect festive or seasonal themes
• Liaise with suppliers & source elements
• Research lifestyle, demographics and design trends

If you would like to apply for this role, please send us a copy of your cv and a link to your portfolio

Company Description

Conversion Advantage is one of South Africa’s leading digital marketing agencies. Our offices are located on Leisure Island in Knysna, South Africa. Yes, we promise, it’s a real island. Staff walking and running around the island on their lunch break is a common occurrence.
Our prestigious clients are located across South Africa and Australia. You may know some of them. They come in all shapes and sizes. From entrepreneurs to fashion brands. Here are just a few that have made use of our services; Diesel, Superdry, Unitrans VW and Audi, Totalsports, Shamwari, Toyota, La Motte, Leopard’s Leap, Safari Outdoor, Adidas and Ferrero Rocher.

Requirements

•       Proven work experience as a visual merchandiser or visual manager

•        Demonstrable visual design skills with a strong retail merchandising portfolio

•        Solid experience in field visual merchandising, including window displays, signs, interior displays and space utilisation

•        Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, or other visual design tools

•        Knowledge of current visual merchandising trends and best practices

•        Proficiency in MS Office

•        Creative and innovative thinker

•        Ability to analyse sales merchandising reports and survey results

•        Degree or Ddploma in visual merchandising, fashion merchandising, exhibition design, visual communications or similar

Posted on 05 Feb 14:55

Job description

Researchers are the first point of contact between Top Media and Communications (Pty) Ltd and our clients. Therefore, it is of great importance that candidates possess a professional conduct/manner across all forms of communication.

Researchers must be able to perform: telephonic research to collect, verify, update and capture, new or existing company information in line with project requirements. General administration. Critical thinker. Able to communicate with blue-chip companies and government departments.

We collect and research over 10,000 established South African companies annually which form the basis of our publications, awards, and conferences.

We strive to help businesses do more business.

Company Description

Topco Media is a leader in South African business-to-business communication, where our primary service and product offerings, i.e. events and publishing, aim to reward, celebrate and advertise the best in South African business and government.

Requirements

• Excellent telephone manner
• Target driven/ability to perform under pressure
• MS Office literate.
• Ability to work in Excel
• Ability to do white page and benchmarking but not essential
• At least one year of work experience in related field/or call centre environment
• Take initiative
• Good communicator
• Team player
• Candidates must be based in and around Cape Town area

Posted on 04 Feb 16:12

Job description

A leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Retail Marketing Manager Home Division to join their team in Cape Town to complement and play a key role in their accomplished team of Marketing professionals. The business is exceptionally dynamic and fast paced, as the e-commerce environment is ever evolving and significantly growing.

Prospective candidates for the Home Division should have experience in working across the following retail departments:

• Small Appliances
• DIY and Automotive products
• Homeware
• Garden Pool and Patio products
• Large Appliances

Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining and implementing Retail Marketing, Sponsorship’s, Partnership and Commercial plans
• Define and implement Department and Division level Marketing plans and programs (across all marketing channels) that drive visits and support GMV, growth and shopper acquisition objectives.
• Build relationships internally with the Retail & Marketplace teams to identify product based marketing opportunities that the marketing team will need to execute on.
• Coordinate Retail Marketing team and work closely with and support the Division and Department Managers to achieve overall growth KPI’s.
• Optimise and manage the Retail & Marketplace department marketing priority executions, process and reporting.
• Own and manage Partnership, Marketing Income, Coupon and Loyalty marketing budget spend and targets.  Be responsible for achieving and tracking all Retail Marketing, Partnership and commercial KPI’s.
• Developing external relationships with partners to secure and grow shopper acquisition and retention. 
• Build relationships with suppliers, sellers and partners to identify strong co-branding opportunities, and craft value exchange  / co-op marketing agreements with these partners. 
• Attract new buyers to the site through partnership opportunities with big brands in the market, particularly banks, and engaging in ongoing strategies to unlock the potential of those partnerships.
• Operational and Management reporting weekly and monthly (incl retail dept level reporting)

Attributes

• A strong strategic thinker who has worked with C-level executives – an ability to craft marketing plans to build department sales
• A highly driven individual who is motivated to drive meaningful sales revenue for the business through retail marketing initiatives including – onsite sales, product launches, co-marketing opportunities with suppliers, event and sponsorship marketing.
• An inquisitive mind with a passion for data – be highly analytical, using data to inform decisions
• An understanding of e-commerce and the key levers that drive sales in an e-commerce environment
• A strong working knowledge of Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel is required
• Tech Savvy – have a passion for technology and how to use technological solutions to improve performance
• Creative mindset – be able to craft numerous campaigns across many departments
• Solutions-oriented – have a can-do attitude and high energy
• Highly organised and efficient, with an ability to work towards and meet tight deadlines 
• Attention to detail will be very important; strong administrative skills
• A person who is a very strong relationship builder and can unlock opportunities with partners and suppliers.
• Good negotiation skills
• eCommerce marketing experience
• Experience in developing and managing annual marketing budgets
• A track record of having developed and implemented successful integrated marketing campaigns across all touchpoints
• Experience in managing a team, external agencies and having large budget responsibility.
• A track record of having grown a customer base and performed on acquisition and revenue targets.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to collaborate with diverse teams.
• Ability to prioritise responsibilities and multiple projects that will impact the business at various levels

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree  or equivalent qualification in business, marketing or communication
• A minimum of 8-10 years retail and marketing experience
• Experience working across marketing channels – Digital, ATL, Partnerships, Commercial  – with demonstrable results
• Retail or e-commerce industry experience beneficial

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Posted on 04 Feb 07:58

Social Community Manager – Brand Influence

Beauty Bulletin (www.beautybulletin.com) and Brand Advisor (www.brandadvisor.co.za) are looking for a dynamic, digitally savvy, systems orientated and self-driven community manager who is based in Cape Town. If you can make a conversation go viral then this may be for you.

Are you a young sensational digital community manager who has excellent communication skills, a passion for word of mouth and highly organisational? Then this is an exciting opportunity to start working in the digital space of influencer marketing and join the team.

This role includes understanding the strategic needs of our clients’ brands, creating inspiring influencer briefs, selecting perfectly matched trial teams and driving projects into authentic, viral conversations by engaging with our audiences and influencers on all social platforms. Attention to detail and strong administration skills are essential.

Job description:

• Interpreting client briefs into influencer-driven communication solutions
• Selecting targeted influencer trial teams for each project
• Liaising and engaging with community members, advisors and influencers on a daily basis – emailing and phoning. Confidence on the phone is a must.
• Ongoing engagement on all Influencer social content (retweets, likes, shares, comments, conversations, managing inquiries, moderating and responding to fans and followers, etc.)
• Downloading all influencer content and statistics
• Assisting with creating final reports from social media and community.
• Assisting with growing the community and researching nano to micro-influencers.

Requirements:

• Formal marketing/PR/English qualifications.
• Excellent proofing and writing skills.
• Very PC and digitally literate. 
• Attention to detail.
• Very organised with a systematic approachability to keep track of workflow.
• Excellent spoken English.
• Must be able to work independently and quickly.

Personal attributes:

• An outgoing, engaging and confident ‘people person’.
• Confident on the phone to connect with Influencers.
• A strong team player
• Strong at planning and time management.
• A passion for understanding of influencer marketing, millennials, gen z, social commerce and social media trends.
• A disciplined personality with an eye for detail and an ability to meet (and juggle) deadlines.

Bonus skills:

• Knowledge of social media reporting.
• Knowledge of SEO.
• Experience using Hashtracking

Please send your CV to Lori@beautybulletin.com 

Posted on 03 Feb 15:42

We are looking for an experienced consumer account director who has solid experience working in a PR agency on medium and large clients. Experience working on multiple local and global brands is a must. He/she must have strong client relationship skills, people management and working with a degree of independence.

This position reports directly into the Group Account Director and the candidate should have project management, budgeting, people management, and business development skills. He/she will oversee and drive workflow and processes within the team, with a focus on retaining and growing existing clients and people, working closely with the senior leadership team to steward the ‘Retain and Grow’ strategy of the company.

The candidate should have a clear understanding of the overall company strategy, client strategies and ensuring that they work with the appropriate leaders in the business to deliver both client and company objectives.

Skills and requirements

• Minimum of six to ten years of experience in a PR agency
• Experience with local and international lifestyle and consumer brands with an understanding of business trends in the industries to which he/she consults 
• Understands integration and ability to work collaboratively with other internal business units to produce integrated 360 campaigns
• Must have the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively at all levels
• Strong budgeting experience
• Solid understanding of consumer trends and marketing best practices
• Strategic thinker with creative abilities to develop innovative client strategies, PR plans and leading a team on execution. Will be responsible for overall development of strategies, PR collateral, and programs based on team input
• Excellent media and influencer relations and contacts in order to develop and guide media and influencer relation strategies
• Has established a circle of industry editorial, investment community, professional and/or third-party group contact
• Strong presentation skills
• Problem solver, thinker and doer
• Believes in, and able to, develop people
• Provides strong leadership in building effective, productive account teams
• Understands integration and ability to work collaboratively with other agencies
• Stakeholder management and engagement skills
• Project management and multi-tasking expertise
• Anticipates and develops solutions to client needs and problems
• Exceptional language and writing skills

Posted on 03 Feb 08:33