Do you have more than five years’ client service experience within an agency? As well as excellent team management and presentation skills?

One of SA’s top independent award-winning agencies is looking for an account director or senior account manager to join their team for a three to six-month contract.

In this role you’ll contribute to the efficient and profitable running of the account and be accountable for the successful development and implementation of account strategies.

The position is based in Cape Town and reports to the Business Unit Director.

Requirements

• Matric
• Relevant tertiary qualification (marketing and communications)
• Five+ years of client service and agency experience 
• There+ years’ people management experience 
• Driver’s license and own reliable transport 
• Proficient in MS Office suite (Mail, Word, Powerpoint and Excel) essential 
• Diverse and excellent writing skills 
• Exceptional interpersonal skills 
• Good team working and management skills 
• Presentation skills 
• Ability to cope with pressure, work to tight deadlines and handle diverse activities 
• Passion for client delivery and service 
• Organisation and administration skills essential 

Key responsiblities

Client responsibilities

• Build positive and productive client relationships by demonstrating an understanding and sound knowledge of their business and industries in which they operate. 
• Manage multi-level projects simultaneously, forward planning, prioritising workflow and demonstrating problem solving at all levels. 
• Work with and draw on the expertise of the full spectrum of the agency’s resources to develop integrated offerings to clients where necessary. 
• Assist in delivering the highest quality of work and highest standard of creativity.
• Produce top quality written work for clients including proposals, presentations and reports. 
• Deliver presentations to clients as and when required. 
• Test strategic direction with creative teams in order to evaluate against strategy and adaptation across various channels of communication.  

People responsibilities

• Work with Business Unit Director to set annual review KPIs.
• Manage junior team member, focussing on motivation, hands-on training and appraisals. 
• Manage and supervise the team to ensure service levels and client deliverables are consistently met. Ensure effective communication internally to full team. 
• Co-ordinate and ensure successful orientation of new employees into the team.

Finance responsibilities

• Assess project costs against client budgets, managing client and agency budgets on an ongoing basis. 
• Ensure invoicing and financial administration adheres to best practice.
• Identify opportunities for expanding the financial potential of the clients’ business.

Operations

• Ensure meeting action reports, status reports, monthly reports, quarterly and annual reviews and other client admin is completed when required. 
• Manage all projects to ensure delivery on time and on budget.

Should you not receive a response within three working days of your application please take it that your application has been unsuccessful.

Posted on 05 Dec 10:08

A leading South African retailer, is looking for highly talented Front End JavaScript Engineer for their Cape Town or Stellenbosch office. You will be working with the best of the best, with some great perks on offer! 

Their stack includes:

JavaScript , React, Or Angular. 

Python, jQuery, PHP

MySQL, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

nginx, RabbitMQ, memcached

Docker, Kubernetes. 

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree, with a strong focus on a quantitative subject, and 2 + years experience within a Software Engineering role.  

Are you looking to join a well established and great team of associates to further your career with your recruitment experience gained to date? We are requiring your ability to build and strengthen client relationships to enjoy this very satisfying career within a niche market in the Western Cape.

REQUIREMENTS

Matric

Own vehicle essential

Minimum four years’ experience in a sales and administration role

Professional demeanour with an open personality

Fast paced work ethic with top integrity is essential

A self-starter, self-managed while driven to achieve deadlines at all times

Problem solver who can use initiative to solve situations that arise

Assessment ability and decision making

DUTIES

Building relationships with Key Clients and with Candidates suitable for placements

Working alongside the team achieving monthly deadline requirements

Develop and grow the database of candidates and clients

Managing the processing of candidate’s applications

Assessment of candidates for suitability to fill positions

Achieve monthly targets

Checking of figures for accuracy for documentation for the finance department

Managing quotes and tenders

Working with existing clients and growing the database

Developing marketing material  for advertising

Presentations to senior level Clients

Calling on Key accounts

Prospecting for new clients

Managing various reports for Management

Resolving problems and conflict resolution of any problems that arise

Negotiating at a high level

Salary:    Dependent on experience

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Job description

Cape Union Mart is looking for a resilient, passionate, apparel focused and detail orientated Buyer. The successful candidate will add value to the Cape Union Mart chain through assisting in working with various aspects in the buying process including the successful trending, sourcing and procurement of apparel merchandise for Cape Union Mart.

Our ideal candidate will have the ability to significantly contribute towards the achievement of our department and business objectives as well as have the high energy levels required for this fast-paced, exciting and dynamic retail environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To achieve and exceed the departmental inflow margin and GP Rands
• To influence and execute the seasonal and purchasing strategy for relevant departments
• To research, understand and execute the relevant seasonal trends in line with the companies target market
• To build a competitive product range in order to maximize sales by sourcing and procuring the correct product within the seasonal strategic framework and in accordance with the agreed quality specifications
• To select and manage suppliers appropriate for the product category
• Ensuring timeous execution of procurement administration to meet target dates in the critical path
• To liaise and collaborate with marketing to ensure marketing needs are met
• To react to in season sales performance in collaboration with planning and suppliers to turn on/turn off stock in order to maximize KPI’s
• Managing that Product tech/spec packs are briefed to suppliers
• Responsible for the lab dip process in developing ranges
• Responsible for the Range Plan process
• Responsible for Marketing Briefs and Photography sign-offs
• Product Information Hub
• Execution of Product Ignite
• Swing ticket, packaging and barcode briefs

Requirements

• Grade 12 certificate and a relevant tertiary qualification is required
• A minimum of 2 – 3 years’ experience working in a clothing retail environment is an important requirement
• Proficiency in MS Excel, Word & Outlook
• Previous experience in using Dolfin Stock Management system is an advantage
• Effective written & verbal skills
• Strong administration skills
• Experience in working with OEM product
• International exposure is advantageous
• A valid South African Driver’s License is preferred
• Understanding of the product life cycle
• Experience in establishing and maintaining supplier relations

Key Competencies

• Ability to self-manage
• Effective Team player & passionate about product.
• Accurate & detail orientated
• Taking ownership & time management
• Accountable, honest and forward thinking
• A passion for keeping up to date with trends and a creative flair for fashion
• The ability to adapt trends to our different target markets
• Proven negotiation skills
• Ability to make sound decisions together with effective problem-solving skills
• Able to build and maintain influential relationships at various levels and across business functions
• Effective communication and presentation skills (advantageous)
• Solid organizing, planning, & time management skills
• Conflict management
• The agility and resilience to maintain high levels of drive and initiative under pressure
• High energy levels, flexibility and a sense of urgency

Posted on 03 Dec 14:15

Job description

Safari Now is looking for a strong Asp.Net Developer to join our software team.

Responsibilities:

SafariNow developers are required to participate in all phases of the software life cycle from requirements gathering through to design, implementation, acceptance testing and support. You will then be required to implement this functionality with a focus on reliability and usability. We follow a lightweight Kanban methodology with a focus on features, quick prototyping and short iterations.

Our Tech Stack:

We develop using a progressive Microsoft web stack – front-end is fluid, responsive design, JavaScript frameworks like Vue, Knockout.

On the server-side, we use ASP.NET 4.5 (MVC, with some legacy web forms), C# libraries and services, and SQL Server 2017. We use Hangfire.Net for background workloads.

There is a lot of third-party API integration, mainly to GDS systems, messaging and payment gateways and Office 365 web APIs.

Our focus is on high performance, scalability and great UX, and we believe that Microsoft tools are a good fit for our technical goals and strategy.

Requirements

You have these skills:

• Good knowledge of SQL Server 2012/2014/2017
• Understanding of data schema design and optimization
• NoSQL tools – MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch.
• C# – good experience of the language, the CLR and object-oriented design
• .NET 4.7.x / ASP.NET MVC 5 – extensive knowledge
• Strong practical Typescript/JavaScript experience.

It’s a big plus if you have:

• .Net core 2/3 experience, and experience of migrating to .Net Core
• Azure application design, and deployment patterns.
• Practical experience of responsive design / CSS frameworks
• Exposure to progressive web app development using JS frameworks (AngularJS, ReactJS, Vue etc.)
• Good understanding of .NET application optimization and scalability

These personal characteristics describe you:

• Highly motivated, desire to make an impact
• Take personal responsibility, good time management skills
• Self-starter, problem solver
• Team player able to work in a medium-sized team

Posted on 02 Dec 14:10