Mr Price is seeking a dynamic and experienced Marketing Manager to join our team. This role focuses on both strategic ability and leadership skills, ensuring our brand’s marketing efforts are innovative, cohesive, and effective.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Brand Leader to develop seasonal marketing strategies.

• Oversee strategic planning by brand teams, providing feedback and guidance on strategies and marketing plans before presenting them to the marketing leadership team.

• Manage all seasonal brand planning and projects, including seasonal calendars and briefs, evaluating objectives, channel strategy, budgets, shoot plans, digital plans, paid social breakdowns, monthly organic social plans, and PR plans.

• Ensure accurate resource planning alongside the Brand Leader, which may inform future resource planning in the team.

• Support the Brand Leader with budget management of all projects.

• Critically analyze creative work against marketing briefs to ensure it delivers on the objectives of the campaign and is brand consistent.

• Liaise and oversee media agencies and briefs.

• Manage and maintain relationships with Merchant Heads, ensuring appropriate investment of marketing to support merchant strategies.

• Develop strong relationships and work closely with all key stakeholders, including creatives, shoot teams, production, e-commerce, and visual merchandise.

• Approve objectives and measurables of each campaign.

• Assess brand campaign reports compiled by the marketing effectiveness (ME) and insights team and results of key marketing campaigns.

• Compile seasonal postmortems with the ME team, insights team, and Brand Heads against seasonal marketing objectives and present to management.

• Have a thorough understanding of all the marketing research insights and key research projects to ensure strategies are aligned with key insights and actions.

• Manage a team of up to 10 people, setting clear and transparent expectations to exhibit the culture and values of the business and achieve/exceed KPIs.

• Identify and drive training needs, coaching, and development with a key focus on talent management, performance management, and succession planning.

• Create a team culture that is responsive and professional when meeting deadlines and providing a business-focused service to internal/external customers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field.

• 8+ years’ experience in marketing.

• 4+ years leadership experience.

• Advanced understanding of marketing channels, strategy, budgets, and reporting.

• Experience/exposure across all marketing channels, including brand, social media, digital, PR/influencer management, stores, sponsorships, internal communications, and activations.

• Experience and ability in leadership: managing and mentoring individuals/a team.

• Experience with retail cycles and e-commerce.

Application Process:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications through the Mr Price Group careers portal or via the provided job listing platforms. Please ensure that your application includes an updated resume and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and qualifications.

Mr Price Group is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply, and we thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the hiring process