Campaign Manager: Category Growth Specialist

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POSITION INFO:

Who are we: A leading South African online retailer

Who are we looking for: A highly talented Campaign Manager: Category Growth Specialist in Cape Town

What will you do:

• Develop and implement a social media paid content strategy that supports the Marketing objectives (with external counsel/workshop from brand strategy partners where required). Integrating Paid and Organic, with Paid strategic and implementation support from the Head of Performance Marketing and external agency
• Run, 0ptimise and manage company's performance channels with a core focus across Paid Social and reporting on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to the internal and external stakeholders
• Liaise with other departments to direct the marketing priorities that enable business success across paid social and other paid media channels
• Build and maintain relationships with our commercial partners at an account manager level and advise on best practices across performance and organic media channels
• Develop and execute Paid Social Media strategies for key business categories
• Work closely with the Social Media Manager to align organic and paid strategies and campaigns across social media
• Work closely with the Social Media Manager to build channel-specific content plans that engage and excite followers across all social media channels
• Execute all commercial paid campaigns as booked by the Advertising or Retail Marketing teams
• Technical implementation of campaign strategies (campaign setup, bidding strategy executions and feedback loop) and A/B test across all performance marketing channels
• Run, optimise and manage our campaign sets across various channels(Google, Facebook, TikTok etc) and platforms (web + app)
• Develop, scale and continuously refine and optimise our campaign strategy for the future, ensuring our full-funnel marketing strategy complements each performance channel
• Plot out the category-specific growth across digital channels, identifying strategic growth audiences and building a high-quality category-specific media plan

What do you need: 

• A tertiary qualification is required preferably in Marketing, Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science
• At least 3-5 years of experience in a campaign manager role
• Certifications: Google Ads (required) Google Analytics (required) DoubleClick (beneficial)
• Experience on the following platforms:
  • Google Ads (required) - Includes Search(required), Shopping(required), Discover(beneficial), YouTube(required) and App Campaign (beneficial)
  • Google Marketing Platform: (Having experience across all is beneficial, but not required)
• SA360 (beneficial)
• DV360 and CM360 (beneficial)
• GA360 (Beneficial) and GA4(beneficial)
• Experience on the following social platforms:
  • Meta Ads (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp) (required)
  • TikTok (required)
  • Snapchat (beneficial)

Attributes required:

• Data-driven decision-making capabilities with the ability to converse with all levels of management about their approach
• A strong problem-solving and solution-orientated mindset
• Attention to detail in all levels of their approach to campaign management. (Campaign set up and reporting)
• E-commerce experience (required)