Ninety9cents is a full service, integrated advertising agency located in Cape Town, and is one of South Africa’s largest independently-owned agencies. Led by founder and Managing Director Andrew Brand, the agency’s extensive client base includes leading brands such as Shoprite/Checkers, Ackermans, PUMA and the Spur Group, to name a few.
We are looking for a detail-obsessed, big thinker Conceptual & Digital Copywriter to join our team! The ideal candidate must capture the imagination of an audience using the power of language and be able to work well with the creative and strategic teams to conceptualise and execute effective campaigns. So, if your imagination runs wild and language is your power, apply – you might just be who we’re looking for!
Main duties include but are not limited to
Translate / conceptualise the brief and the strategic requirements into compelling creative solutions
Write copy and scripts for electronic, digital and media, print, outdoor, radio and television
Brainstorm proactive creative campaigns, both for existing and potential clients
Client facing – effective communication in pitching ideas and concepts
Requirements
A tertiary qualification in Copywriting and / or Advertising
3 years + copywriting experience within an advertising agency
A portfolio of evidence that reflects conceptual, creative copywriting proficiencies
Proficient in MS Word / PowerPoint / Keynote
Excellent communication skills
Understand advertising as a selling tool
Team player with the ability to work independently
Ability to work well under pressure
“Out of the box” thinker
Assertive
Energetic
Solution driven
Deadline driven
Resilient
Great sense of humour
Ability to accept guidance and respond well to criticism
Meticulous with attention to detail
Demonstrate creative insight and brilliance for client solutions across all media platforms
Must be willing to work on alcohol brands
Flexible to work overtime (if and when required)
Interested candidates must please submit a concise CV and a link to their portfolio of evidence. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us within two weeks after submitting your application, please consider your application unsuccessful.
We remain committed to the principles of Employment Equity.
Start your digital journey and partner with the best technology providers that leverage a wealth of world-class expertise. This consulting system analyst role will require an individual that is project-driven and speaks a digital language of analysing, designing and specifying new information systems solutions.
Responsibilities:
Analysing of business requirements to plan system and configuration changes, providing system capabilities required for the development and installation of new systems or modification of existing systems.
Manage the full life cycle of development and configuration changes from requirements to analysis and documentation to configure the systems to implementation and migration support.
Provide input to insurance system capability investigations and provide consulting to Insurance during feasibility investigations.
Consult to clients and provide guidance on delivering hardware, software and firmware support across domains.
Evaluate factors such as the number of departments to be serviced, reporting formats, the volume of transactions, time requirements, cost constraints and the need for security and access to the affected system.
Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems. Participate in research that will enable recommendations related to the system software.
Make and validate recommendations based on cost and usability (feasibility) on enterprise-wide projects.
Deliver work products per the agreed timelines and within the agreed budget.
Deliver proof of concepts to clients and obtain the necessary sign-off.
Create systems impact documentation for larger, more complex/enterprise-wide projects that cross systems. Identify project dependencies and possible conflict and manage these to resolution (enterprise-wide).
Participate in design forums to approve designs and validate recommended software technologies.
Participate in problem-solving. Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
Reference number for this position is KB49023 which is a permanent position based in Johannesburg north offering a cost to company salary of R550 per hour negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Kavisha Bissessar on
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or call on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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A Construction Firm based in Bloemfontein specializing in the refurbishments of old and existing buildings is looking for a Finishing Foreman and Project Manager to join their team. The successful Candidate will be responsible for overseeing the refurbishments of the building as well as supervising the renovation teams. eddie@redlinerecruitment.co.za
HelloFCB is seeking an experienced traffic manager, who will be responsible for the planning, management, coordination and financial aspects of campaigns and projects. If you are someone who can handle multiple projects and can work under pressure in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, then contact us now.
You will be required to work closely with the studio manager to ensure the smooth flow of all work in the system, producing timing plans, setting up reviews, managing the creative’s time via the work schedule and their diary including the sign-off process, working closely with the account managers/executives to lead and manage the progress of each of the agency’s accounts.
You will:
Co-ordinate jobs from brief to delivery effectively
Follow-up of jobs routinely
Produce timing plans
Schedule creative briefings, reviews and client service/strategic reviews
Manage the creative’s time via electronic diary and monthly schedule
Manage the sign-off process efficiently
Manage the repro process
Coordinate jobs between the different business units within the Agency
Interaction with print, TV, art buying and radio production where necessary
Before commencement of a job raise creative cost estimates on non-retainer clients for advance approval
Check closing/billing of all jobs in the system
Update job status schedules
Attend all inter-agency weekly status meetings
Requirements
You have:
Relevant degree/diploma
Minimum three to five years’ relevant experience
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
The ability to maintain good relationships with clients and team members; strong interpersonal skills is a must
The ability to work under pressure, multitask and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Good analysis and interpretation and great excel skills
Planning and organisational/document management skills
Personal skills/attributes:
Able to self-manage your workload
Pro-active, two-steps ahead attitude, motivated and eager to learn
Solution driven and a great problem solver
Proven track record and recent relevant contactable references are essential. The salary is negotiable depending on experience. Please be advised, only successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Posted on 24 Mar 08:16
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Our client is well entrenched in various supply chain networks throughout South Africa and is a leader in long and short haul transporting of temperature-sensitive and various other products. They pride themselves in providing industry-leading transport and distribution solutions that continually meet and exceed customer expectations.
They are looking to appoint a Fleet Manager and a Fleet Controller at their depot in Durban.
The overall objective of the Fleet Manager role is to effectively manage and oversee the day to day (also nightshift) operations of the depot/plant. This includes the short term planning and scheduling of daily operations. This extends from the productivity of drivers and their vehicles; along with the overall maintenance of vehicles; solving queries etc. in order to deliver exceptional service within clients’ SLA.
Overview: The search/platforms and media consultant (PMC) role will form part of the product specialist layer within the global operations team. This role requires high expertise within the paid search media and tech field as consultancy towards clients, internal operations and commercial teams will have to be provided.
This consultancy includes (but isn’t limited to) working closely with clients, commercial and operations teams on cross channel media strategies with the emphasis on Paid Search, proposals/RFPs, data layers, and measurement plans.
The PMC consultant will also assist global markets when required with deal and commercial structures as well as product consultancy. Keeping up to date with global market trends, product updates and innovative paid search strategies will form an integral part of this role. The PMC Consultant will work closely with Operational Country Heads to assist teams with analysing data and advise where campaign strategies can be improved.
Keeping a close call to strategic clients will be a default, with one particularly in mind. It will be required to spend time in the client’s offices on a regular basis.
The PMC will be responsible for managing technology partner relationships and building out the paid media offering in the relevant markets.
Place within the organisation:
Reports to the head of consultancy (Operations)
Closely interacts with other specialist consultants.
Works closely with clients on their paid search strategies
Works with international managing directors, international consultants + account managers as well as paid media managers
Works closely with platform partners i.e. Google, GMP, etc. to keep ahead of tech, gain access to betas and conferences, etc.
Tasks:
1. Internal consultancy
Working closely with APAC, European and SA teams, wherever needed, with tech implementations and cross channel media strategies and being able to translate thinking to teams.
Ability to work with strong international commercial team members (MD’s, in-market consultants, AMs and paid media managers) and understanding what is required – from commercial models to campaign goals, ROI and strategic needs
Employ campaign strategies with sufficient research and management tactics to maximise performance and revenue
Being able to spot when clients aren’t performing and then lead paid media managers in the right direction and consulting on possible solutions / next steps
Working closely with countries heads to understand market trends, client/market needs
2. External consultancy
Ability to understand the customer’s key business and marketing challenges and translate this into how our tech and services can achieve these goals
Improve business goals and process by combining the deep tech, product and strategic knowledge
Act as support and a point of contact to provide strategic (or any other) support where needed
Assist clients to understand and know how to read and interpret DC data
Providing consultancy services towards clients globally
Keeping track of client pipelines and pro-actively reaching out to HOD’s to assist with new deals
Joining of client meetings locally or virtually
Assisting with initial client strategy and re-strategies
Working knowledge on who to set up advanced eCommerce and data layer building/setups as well as tagging – keeping the future in mind and what the best solutions will be
Heavy hand in the best tech skeleton setups for GMP stack clients
Clear communication of new clients/strategies to paid media managers and head of countries
3. Operational
Training: Ensure the operations team os adhering to best practice and ensuring best practice is updated and relevant. Ensuring the standard of training remains consistent across the paid media teams.
Assisting with training of commercial teams on media
Assisting paid media managers with tech issues e.g.:
Reporting discrepancies
Tracking issues
Testing/troubleshooting new features
QC and performance: Periodic checks on strategic clients to spot loopholes and helping teams to close the gaps (working in conjunction with regional leads)
Troubleshooting: First level of troubleshooting and triage on technical and performance-related issues
Spot testing of pixels/tracking setups
Tech and product features: Regular testing and evaluation of new DSP features and feature performance – in conjunction with operational heads of countries
Being able to self-train on new platform and share knowledge within team
Run Strategic campaigns: Will need to run campaigns that are strategic/new onboarding in order to keep up with tech and add value back to the Trading and commercial teams.
4. Administration
Documenting strategies to ensure all teams can easily find back information
Ensure all administration is accurate and up to date and shared with executing teams
Assist finance and commercial team with commercial models where needed
Requirements
Knowledge and experience:
A minimum of seven+ years of experience within the digital industry
Experience as a paid search buyer for a minimum of five years working within paid search platforms eg Google Ads, Bing, Yahoo, etc. (International exposure is an advantage, but not necessary)
Well-versed in performance marketing, yielding results for client’s investments, i.e. sales/lead conversion, and omnichannel acquisition.
Experience as a paid search strategist, planning and executing on x-channel marketing strategies.
In-depth experience with bid management tools, with desired experience with SA360
Desired experience with third-party tracking, API integrations, and advanced paid search features, and familiarity with A/B multivariate experiments.
Advantage if you have intermediate working knowledge on HTML, CSS, Javascript and UX design
Illustrate strong relationships with Technology partners; Google LCS and Google Marketing Partners etc.
Experience with website analytics tools (e.g, Google Analytics, NetInsight, Omniture, WebTrends)
Strong skill set in navigating teams and where expertise is needed. Able to operate within grey areas and without clear direction, a consultant should advise what is required
Experience in stabilising high-pressure situations and tight deadlines
Experience in working within a fast pace global operational team
Experience in working directly with clients, MDs and commercial teams
Experience in working closely with finance teams should commercial models be queried
Clear understanding of digital commercial models and being able to work with commercial teams
Outstanding ability to think creatively and strategically within the digital marketing space – creating and implementing performance-driven strategies (cross channel)
Thinking ahead and being able to identify areas of improvements within for clients – this is from a performance point of view as well as tech
Ability to identify and support teams to resolve technology/platform problems as well as reporting discrepancies, tracking issues and any other tech-related issues which affect campaigns
Strong experience in the management of digital accounts with a strong focus on ROI and digital performance strategies
BS/MS degree in marketing or a quantitative, test-driven field
Characteristics:
Ability to be entrepreneurial and to create own opportunities
Ability to operate at optimal levels without clear direction, the PMC Consultant should be the directions creators
Ability to work under pressure and able to concentrate in the middle of chaos (being able to streamline the chaos)
Strong ability to prioritise and managing own time as well as assisting teams where needed
Ability to spot loopholes within client strategies/commercials
Taking the lead on brand/client innovation
Not being afraid to take the lead in client meetings and questioning client approaches, strategies and commercials
Good technical communicator – be able to turn complexity into simplicity
Autonomous, proactive and resourceful
Self-motivated and driven individual with strong integrity
Very diligent – staying on top of the details and understanding how they fit into the big picture
If you believe that you’re the right candidate for this position, please send your cover letter and latest CV to Caryn Pillar at
moc.atebucni@rh
. (Take note that if you do not fit all of the above criteria, you will unfortunately not be considered for this position)
Please also note that if you do not receive a response from us within two weeks of applying, please consider your application as unsuccessful.
Posted on 23 Mar 15:59
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