Marketing Coordinator Sub-Saharan Africa: PR, Events and Sponsorship

SUMMARY:
A leading Technology company is looking for a Marketing Coordinator to join their team in Rosebank. The Marketing Coordinator will support the Marketing team with all marketing related activities. The Marketing Coordinator will own strategies for PR, events, sponsorship/Ambassador/influencer activities. The above-mentioned marketing activities will cover Sub-Saharan Africa.

POSITION INFO:
Education:

• Marketing Degre

• At least 3 years’ experience in Marketing
• Events/Agency background preferable
• Sponsorship, ambassador and influencer trend knowledge
• Must be a people’s person with the ability to build strong relationships
• Must be a creative thinker and add value to local campaign concepts

• Managing the brands PR and reporting on campaigns. Finding unique PR opportunities
• Managing and organizing all marketing related events across Sub-Saharan Africa
• Taking ownership of Influencers, ambassadors and sponsorships relations, identifying and filtering for all sponsorship requests
• Handling branding and sports apparel requirements, keeping stock of existing and sourcing new branded items
• Acting as support contact to the Marketing Manager for all Africa Marketing queries
• Accepts ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments
• Campaign specific and monthly reporting around influencers and ambassadors