Intern : Junior Marketing Manager

Company Description

Wild Pursuit Online Marketing is an award-winning marketing agency. We collaborate with South African and International clients who are dissatisfied with their current marketing results.

We aim to improve leads and sales through effective online ad campaigns and high-performing websites. Our expertise includes Google Ads, website design and development, SEO, industrial market research, content creation, and social media. (To name a few).

We specialise in understanding human behaviour to create successful marketing strategies.

Success is meticulously tracked and measured to ensure optimal outcomes for our clients.

We are both a performance marketing agency and a brand marketing agency.

The role:
(This is an attention to detail role, and requires a high degree of resilience and ability to cope with constructive criticism)

This remote role is however based in Edenvale. The
Intern: Junior Marketing Manager
will be responsible for supporting the marketing team in developing and executing marketing strategies, conducting market research, managing social media accounts, creating content, assisting with online ad campaigns, and tracking and analysing campaign performance.

Minimum Qualifications

You must have
completed
a BA degree in Strategic Communications, or BCom Degree in Marketing Management. (Ideally from UJ) Honours Degree is advantageous. (If you are currently writing exams or finishing your FINAL semester by end of Dec 2025 you may still apply.)

You must provide the following work environment:

1. Professional work from home environment. (A quiet confidential room with a chair, desk, door and appropriate background- we will provide a laptop)

2. A Fast Fiber-optic line (min of 20/20 mbps)

3. Own car & live within 40min drive of Edenvale

About your character:

• Ethical with High Integrity,

• Networker

• Persuasive and Intuitive

• Curious, Enquiring Mind

• Willingness to work hard, like we do

You can satisfy these baseline skill requirements:

• Produce excellent written copy in English (Like an English home language speaker)

• Very comfortable with numbers (High numeracy)

• Are highly competent in:

• Online Meetings

• Presentations

• Thinking on your feet

• Excel, Word, PowerPoint

We are hoping to mentor you into these skills:

Strategy related:

a) Advise clients on their high-level strategy

b) Project Manage / Influence client's day-to-day digital marketing strategy

c) "Own" client's conversion strategy

Diagnose marketing/solution challenges for client's business:

a) Conduct informal market research, as and when needed

b) Compile monthly client reports - data analysis

c) Identify client's needs/client's pain points and sell or upsell a solution

Manage client relations:

a) Be single point of contact for clients

b) Ensure client is on a path towards 10X marketing ROI/ have achieved it

c) Maintain clients perceived value of the Wild Pursuit solution

d) Ensure client is profitable for Wild Pursuit

e) Set accurate customer expectations

Production related:

a) Project Manage all the projects we're running for the client- eg GAds / website build

b) Research / Build / Configure / Maintain GAds, FB Ads

c) Manage client budgets - /GAds, FB Ads spent

d) Design and oversee implementation and management of conversion measurement

e) Write copy for client websites, write copy for GAds, FB Ads

To get the job

There are hundreds of people who would like this job.

So you're going to have to win it using your skills.

To apply, these are the steps we have set, all must be completed:

1. Please send a well written cover letter of no longer than 600 words. It must be legible and handwritten. It must explain who
YOU
are and motivate us to review your CV and consider you for the role. When we read it, it should feel like you wrote it. It should
demonstrate
your skills. We are copywriters and can smell AI drivel from a mile away.

2. Send us an email with your CV/Resume and your written letter as noted above. I must be sent to this email address only: NB: subject of email must be as follows: #Intern25 +
Your name

(
PLEASE NOTE
: To protect our efficiency, the only way to communicate with us about this role is via the email address above.)

Applications must be received by Noon of Friday 17 Oct 2025.

Only short listed applicants will be contacted.

Salary negotiable based on skills, experience and fit.

Feel free to submit your salary expectation and your availability to start working.

REMEMBER
This is an attention to detail role. The assessment of your ability has already started.

Tips: Provide a summary of the role, what success in the position looks like, and how this role fits into the organization overall.

Responsibilities

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Qualifications

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