Sr Marketing Specialist

Xylem |ˈzīləm|

1) The tissue in plants that brings water upward from the roots;
2) a leading global water technology company.

Xylem, a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, is the leading global provider of efficient, innovative and sustainable water technologies improving the way water is used, managed, conserved and re-used. Our international team is unified in a common purpose: creating advanced technology and other trusted solutions to solve the world’s water challenges. We are committed to creating an organization of inclusion and diversity, where everyone feels involved, respected, valued and connected, and where everyone is free to bring their authentic selves and ideas.

**We Offer You More Than Just “A Job”**

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- Professional Development - To advance the capabilities of our people, we offer a wide variety of experiences to support our employees’ professional growth and continuous learning.
- Total Rewards - We offer comprehensive programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, work-life integration and corporate citizenship.
- Watermark - Watermark is our corporate social responsibility program working to provide education and access to safe water to ensure healthy lives, gender equality, and resilient communities. Employees have the opportunity to learn and volunteer on various water-related projects.
- Employee Networks - Our Employee Networks provide a professional, supportive network for employees from diverse backgrounds, including Women’s, LGBT+ and Allies, Veteran’s, People of Color and Allies, Emerging Leaders, and Working Parents Networks.

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**The Role**:Marketing Specialist

**PURPOSE OF THE POSITION**

The marketing specialist role is responsible to contribute to the overall success of the team’s delivery and implementation of all strategic and marketing objectives, throughout the business across all regions in Africa. The role responsibilities include initiation and successful delivery with all of the associated projects and marketing management artefacts and final successful closure and benefits realisation tracking of all marketing projects.

The role is based on a marketing projects management framework. Your role is primarily operational excellence with good strategic foresight to translate business goals into marketing plans 360 Marketing Campaigns Take full ownership of managing the operational execution of activations including.

Coordinating and planning

Include all channels - traditional, digital, PR, events and social into all campaigns.

Engaging regional internal teams

Engaging agencies for execution

Driving the target numbers

Working to budgets

Setting KPIs

Reporting

Watermark

Support CSR initiatives outlined by the Watermark lead.

Communications

Devise and execute all internal and external communications plan

GeneralManaging all administration including

Processing of invoices

Updating trackers

Dispatching goods to regions

Managing and drive adoption of Workplace, Xylem’s internal social channel

Manage corporate gifts

Support Manager to do data collection, research, meet strategic goals, planning, reporting etc

Strategy and Marketing
- Bachelor degree or equivalent diploma in marketing management
- Marketing specialisation in digital marketing, events management, project management or similar - advantageous
- Minimum 2-5 years marketing management experience
- Demonstrable experience in marketing together with the potential and attitude required to learn
- Experience in an environment where formal marketing management processes
- Proven experience in Microsoft Office at advanced levels
- Strong verbal and written communication skills used at all levels within the organisation
- Proven experience in social media and digital channels
- Solid knowledge of website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics, NetInsight, Omniture, WebTrends)
- Experience in setting up and optimizing Google Adwords campaigns
- Numerically literate, comfortable working with numbers, making sense of metrics and processing figures with spreadsheets
- Located in South Africa
- French speaking advantageous
- Graphic design skills advantageous
- Willingness to travel across Africa.