Digital Commerce: Marketing Campaign Manager (Sixty60)

Role Purpose

Checkers Sixty60 is looking for a high-energy, self-motivated, innovative, and experienced Marketing Campaign Manager to join the marketing team. Due to the highly collaborative nature of this role, this candidate is required to work in-office. This is not a remote role.

Reporting into the Deputy Head of Marketing, this Marketing Campaign Manager will work closely marketing, merchandising, media and creative teams, in managing various marketing activities, and collaborate with various internal departments and partner agencies to bring campaigns to life.

Role Description

• Develop and manage end-to-end delivery of marketing campaigns across all channels, from execution to post campaign analysis (reporting).

• Effectively manage own portfolio of work while collaborating with creative, strategy and media teams to implement multichannel campaigns.

• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the delivery of campaign plans.

• Manage creative and media partners with clear objectives, requirements, budgets, and timelines.

• Ensure that campaigns are executed within established timelines, are continuously optimised based on performance and that results are fed back to key stakeholders timeously.

• Conduct market and competitor research to identify key trends and insights in the e-commerce landscape.

• Keep the brand up to date with changes and advances in the digital marketing landscape and advise on new channels and approaches to adopt.

• Set and manage campaign budgets.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree or Diploma in Marketing, Advertising, Media or related – (essential).

• +3 years of digital marketing experience – (essential)

• +3 years of marketing experience in retail or related business field – (essential)

• Experience working with e-CRM – Email, SMS, push notifications and in-app messaging – (preferred)

• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of the media landscape within the broader retail industry – (preferred).

• Strong proficiency in MS Office – (essential).

Key competencies and work ethic

• Account management - strong ability to keep schedules, prioritise tasks / briefs and ensure campaigns / projects are on time and delivered against business objectives.

• Team player and collaborative partner - contributes towards building a positive team morale.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and story-telling skills - articulates ideas and concepts in a creative and meaningful way.

• Dynamic personality and the ability to think outside the box.

• Proactive with initiative to drive new ideas and content.

• Organised with strong time, delivery, and planning management. Plans and organises own work effectively and delivers against deadlines and quality standards. Focuses personal efforts on achieving results aligned to organisational objectives.

• Interpersonal skills - build strong relationships internally and externally and manage conflict and competing priorities well.

• Flexible thinker with the ability to make sound independent decisions.

• Adaptability: Willingness to adapt to changes in the industry, consumer behaviour, and company priorities.

• Results-oriented and quality focused with good project management skills - Able to balance multiple projects and priorities in a large scale, complex environment.

• Ability to work under pressure and to organise, prioritise, and reorder workload in a rapidly changing and fast-moving environment.

• Self-starter with the skill and discipline to work independently and across multi-functional teams. High level of self-motivation and drive to set, meet and exceed on goals and expectations.

• Has integrity and takes accountability for actions and mistakes.

• Business Acumen - Commercial and business understanding of the broader retail industry.

• Curious and willing to learn – Proactively identifies new areas for learning; seizes learning opportunities and actively uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job.

Our Group and all its operating companies is committed to creating, embracing, and preserving a diverse workplace that values the unique talents, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities that enrich our organisation. A place where everyone matters and feels included.

We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally.

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