Job description

An opportunity has become available for a professional, innovative, confident and results-orientated Marketing Manager to lead the Leisure and Footwear marketing team and to develop, implement and execute customer-focused and company-led marketing strategies.

This position, reporting to the Marketing Executive, is based at our Head Office in Cape Town and is an exciting and challenging opportunity that will require the successful candidate to partner with and empower stakeholders to achieve company objectives.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Develop and implement the annual brand marketing strategy for the leisure and footwear portfolio
• Develop the brand essence and ensure that this is seamlessly communicated to our customers
• Build and maintain effective partnerships with all key stakeholders (both internal and external) to achieve the departmental and business goals
• Drive customer centricity
• Lead, manage and develop the Leisure and Footwear teams to reach their full potential within their respective areas
• Optimize the department’s performance and the achievement of required outcomes through effective people management
• ?Drive continuous improvement and self-development
• Execute and delivering on ad-hoc duties and responsibilities
• Drive the company culture and values

Qualifications and Experience Required:

• A tertiary qualification in Marketing or similar is required
• A digital qualification would be advantageous
• At least 4 years of working experience in Marketing within a Retail environment would be preferred
• An extensive knowledge of the digital landscape and social media is required
• At least 2 years of experience leading, managing and developing a team of Marketing professionals and graduates is important
• Practical knowledge of Microsoft Applications with excellent Excel skills is essential.
• Able to travel locally
• A valid drivers license is preferred
• Sound business acumen is required

Key Skills and Competencies:

• An emotionally intelligent, inspiring leader
• Ability to lead, coach, mentor and support experienced professionals, providing necessary direction and guidance while delegating the detail and specialized areas accordingly.
• Ability to build and maintain strong win-win relationships with relevant stakeholders across all levels of the business as well as key external partners
• Strong partnering and collaboration skills
• Strong numerical, logical and analytical thinking
• Sound judgement and decision-making rooted in high levels of professional work ethics
• The ability to solve problems and think innovatively
• An excellent communicator
• Effective presentations skills
• A strong sense of urgency
• Strong influencing skills; consistently achieves targeted results
• Strong organisational skills
• An excellent negotiator with the ability to influence and be assertive
• A passionate team player
• Proactive
• Attention to detail

Posted on 20 Dec 16:30