Marketing Intern

Job location: The San HQ, Midrand- Johannesburg

Overview: We are looking for an enthusiastic marketing intern to join our marketing department and provide creative ideas to help achieve our goals. You will have administrative duties in developing and implementing marketing strategies. As a marketing intern, you will collaborate with our marketing and advertising team in all stages of marketing campaigns. Your insightful contribution will help develop, expand and maintain our marketing channels. This internship will help you acquire marketing skills and provide you with knowledge of various marketing strategies. Ultimately, you will gain broad experience in marketing and should be prepared to enter any fast-paced work environment.

The above-mentioned marketing activities will cover San HD & The Penthouse marketing activities as their own portfolios.

Duties and responsibilities: Design & Branding:

● Maintain consistent brand identity across all communication channels

• Collect quantitative and qualitative data from marketing campaigns
• Perform market analysis and research on competition
• Support the marketing team in daily administrative tasks
• Assist in marketing and advertising promotional activities (e.g. social media, direct mail and web)
• Prepare promotional presentations
• Help distribute marketing materials
• Manage and update company database and customer relationship management systems (CRM)
• Help organize marketing events

Campaign Management:

● Assist in planning, gathering information and executing external campaigns to fulfil campaign objectives and effectiveness.

● Assist with email marketing campaigns, including designing and distributing emails via Mailchimp.

● Assist with managing project and campaign deliverables in order to meet expectations and ensure campaigns are on time and within budget.

● Contribute forward-thinking content ideas that help amplify the brand reputation through experimenting with new formats, techniques and creative strategies.

● Engage with media and influencers to facilitate hair selection and showcase products.

● Build and nurture partnerships and PR opportunities to enhance brand visibility.

Social Media Management:

● Drive the conceptualization and creation of digital content for social media channels and website through bringing all types of content ideas to life, from graphic design to photos, videos and multimedia content.

● Assist in gathering information and materials needed for content creation.

● Monitor online interactions and respond to basic inquiries or comments and complaints professionally.

Website Management:

● Assist in managing the company's website updates and maintain website content, ensuring it is current and aligned with the brand's message.

● Coordinate e-commerce shoot schedules and calendars by liaising with photographers and relevant team members.

Event Support:

● Assist with planning and promoting internal events through various channels

● Assist with coordinating and running internal and events, including coordinating with external logistics, suppliers, external partners and managing RSVPs, and preparing materials for set up and support.

Project Coordination:

● Meticulously track and manage tasks and timelines for marketing projects.

● Track campaign performance and provide feedback for continuous improvement

General Support:

● Assist with day-to-day marketing tasks and ad-hoc projects as needed.

● Acting as support contact to the Marketing Manager for all San HD marketing queries, while identifying and escalating priority issues.

● Assist in collecting and organising data for analysis to support marketing strategies.

● Help prepare reports and presentations for marketing meetings.

• Education:
• A Bachelor's degree in Marketing or a related field.
• Experience:
• Not much experience is needed, at least 1 year experience in related field.
• Key Skills:
• Excellent communication, organization, and project management skills, with a strong understanding of marketing analytics tools and software.
• Proficiency in content creation, social media management, and email marketing.
• Ability to work collaboratively with different stakeholders and prioritize tasks effectively.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.

Requirements:

• Strong desire to learn along with professional drive

• Solid understanding of different marketing techniques

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office

• Familiarity with marketing computer software and online applications (e.g. CRM tools, Online analytics and Google Adwords)

• Passion for the marketing industry and its best practices

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to R5 000,00 per month

Work Location: In person