Remuneration:	negotiable
Location:	Cape Town, Sea Point
Education level:	Diploma
Job level:	Junior/Mid
Type:	Six months
Reference:	#ITProjectManager
Company:	Monetise

Monetise (www.monetise.co.za) is a boutique eCommerce agency based in Cape Town. Our portfolio of client includes local and international retailers, and this position is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to grow with the company. We are looking for a strong and dynamic Mid-level Project Manager who will lead the delivery of client e-commerce solutions.

The successful candidate will work closely with clients and Monetise’s development team to ensure that solutions are delivered on time and within budget. We are looking for a team player who is willing to roll up their sleeves and work collaboratively with the client and developers to ensure that we a deliver high value solution that meets the client’s needs.

You will initially be responsible for smaller, simpler projects and where appropriate will work with a senior project manager to guide and coach you as required. This represents an excellent opportunity for someone to grow into a more senior role within Monetise.

Job type: six-month contract

Job description:

The project manager will report directly to the Director and will work closely with the other Heads of Department to ensure that projects are completed on time and to budget in accordance with clients’ needs and company policies.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing project resources and their costs.
• Assigning, prioritizing, and supervising project tasks.
• Ensuring the execution and review of project activities within deadline.
• Implementing and managing changes.
• Identifying and managing project risks.
• Detecting, reporting, and fixing issues whenever necessary.
• Ensuring that quality is maintained at all times.
• Obtaining approval and sign-off of key deliverables.
• Tracking and confirming time and costs.
• Accurately reporting progress to the client and to the Monetise Director

You’ll be responsible for taking projects from conception through to final delivery. Projects may follow a traditional structured delivery approach or an Agile approach, or a hybrid of both models.

 Requirements:

• Two+ years IT or e-commerce experience
• Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid organisational skills including attention to detail
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills and experience working on multiple projects
• Good understanding of all phases of a project, including requirements analysis, functional design/specification, and testing
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Drive
• Good working knowledge of web and other technologies
• An enthusiastic and committed attitude
• Experience with Agile/Scrum or any other project management methodologies
• Bachelor’s Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience managing digital campaign and/or CMS website projects

 Personal qualities needed

• Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills
• Energetic and motivated
• Self-starter
• Proactive
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• Positive outlook on life
• End user-orientated/focused
• Work well under pressure to meet deadlines
• Work independently
• Desire to grow and develop

Posted on 28 Aug 15:55

Remuneration:	Market related
Location:	Cape Town
Job level:	Management Jnr-Mid
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#HCH-1696
Company:	HomeChoice

Job description

Are you a confident and analytical Campaign Planner who has had proven success to accurately forecast and plan investment and sales to acquire and retain customers and maximize ROI to meet business growth objectives? If your passion is to drive trade and influence sales – then here is your next challenge!

Here’s what you can expect to be doing in the role

• Accurately forecast and develop a campaign demand plan and adspend to provide the business with a clear roadmap to meet financial objectives

• Ensure trends are monitored with changes identified timeously for re-forecasting and adjust accordingly

• Provide insightful reporting & analysis for weekly sales, monthly management reports, marketing review, quarterly concepts, and ad hoc requests

• Analyse trends relating to key variables within campaigns and put forward proposals for improvement

• Increase customer demand and basket size to deliver intake targets and drive organic growth through innovation

• Engage and challenge the different business units to improve conversion from Intake to NSV by achieving Net Factor objectives

• Monitor campaigns and channel performance to achieve NSV, taking proactive actions to improve any underperformance

• Leverage relationships with merchandise and operations for great marketing offers and incentives to drive customer demand

• Collaborate with CICA to develop insight led campaign segmentation strategies to achieve customer growth

• Work closely with telemarketing to achieve business objectives in line with the campaign plan 

• Drive process improvements in campaign execution and collaborate with IT to improve systems and processes in the area

• Develop A/B Testing to find new opportunities to drive sales

• Collaborate with the Channel Heads to forecast and drive growth in key strategic areas such digital, foreign and showrooms

• Demonstrate leadership skills which embodies effective communication skills and work as an enabler within the planning team

• Ability to provide constructive feedback to direct reports and motivate the team to deliver against company targets 

• Perform the role of a mentor and empower the team to grow as individuals to pursue their career goals, develop their skill and to foster effective teamwork

• Understand the investment influence to drive a digital first strategy to achieve campaign objectives

A little about who you are

• A Business Science / BComm / Finance / Stats / Marketing Degree and/or CIMA qualification 

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within a planning role (preferably within a retail/marketing environment)

• Passionate about data, insights and analytics

• Excellent cross functional team management skills

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

• Digital orientation

• Affinity with numbers

• Commercially minded

• Data orientation

• Attention to detail

• CX journey mapping and funnel analysis

• Personalisation

You will have mastered these traits

• Entrepreneurial and excited to take on new initiatives

• Passionate about data, insights and analytics

• Strong problem solving, highly analytical, attention to detail with solid organizational skills

• Excellent oral and written skills – demonstrated ability to influence audiences including those at senior leadership levels

• Credible leadership skills for strong team and results orientated delivery

• Proven ability to handle multiple competing priorities and ability to adapt in flexible, fast paced environment

• Ability to think big and deliver from concept to execution

• Decision making abilities with strong analytical skills

• Must be resilient, open to feedback and assertive

• Relator and relationship builder

• A minimum of 2 years’ data warehousing experience with a working understanding of dimensional modelling

• At least 2 years’ experience in ETL processes using SSIS

• Intermediate to Advanced skill level in using MS-SQL/T-SQL

• Beginner to Intermediate skill level in developing reports using SSRS

• Competent in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)

• Experience building and maintaining Tabular Cubes (DAX) using SSAS will be an added advantage

• Exposure to Self-Service BI using Power-BI will be an added advantage

• Exposure in using TFS or SVN will be an added advantage

• Exposure in working within an agile project environment will be an added advantage

Benefits 

• Provident fund (included in CTC)

• Flexible working hours

• Café and lounge area

• Staff restaurant with a variety of healthy meal options

Posted on 28 Aug 15:34

Remuneration:	R540000 – R550000 per year Cost to company
Location:	Cape Town
Education level:	Degree
Job level:	Mid
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#ND50670
Company:	E-Merge IT Recruitment

Here’s a cool shop, based near Cape Town’s renowned Waterfront looking for the animal lover at heart! You will be part of a team-building and maintaining a custom e-commerce management engine, while indirectly helping man look after his best friend!

The right dev for the job needs to be hands-on, highly clued up with the Microsoft stack and comfortable working with ASP.Net (they not hitting Core just yet). As for the team they are young, flexible, and focused on deliverables /output. They aim for excellence and continually push each other to be their best-coding-self!

This is what we are looking for:

• 3 years’ key experience using the Microsoft web stack (ASP.Net C#, SQL, Windows Server, IIS)
• Decent skills in RESTful API dev and integration
• Some good front end skills: JavaScript, HTML and CSS will be just fine!
• Key experience in Azure server infrastructure

Qualification:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or something equally as good

Reference number for this position is ND50670-2020 which is a permanent position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of R550K pa negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nicole D on e-merge.co.za or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

Are you ready for a change of scenery? E-Merge IT Recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the e-Merge website www.e-merge.co.za for more great positions. Do you have a friend who is a developer or technology specialist? We pay cash for successful referrals!

Posted on 28 Aug 14:47