Marketing Graduate - UK Reporting lines at Rentokil Initial South Africa

Requirements

You will start with us as a Marketing Graduate Executive, where you’ll support your Marketing Manager(s) by taking direct responsibility for the following:

• Understanding our systems & processes including our leads and enquiries models models
•  Supporting the marketing team with tracking of sales for particular product/service lines as well helping finance to maintain price lists as & where appropriate.
• Joining some of the Route 1 sessions to understand that programme & marketing’s role in it as well as creating some of the training content.
• Organising photo shoots
• Maintaining & updating customer & marketing databases
• Organising & attending events such as conferences, seminars, receptions & exhibitions.
• Creating appropriate content for Front Line Colleagues
• Managing the production of marketing materials, including leaflets, posters, flyers. e-newsletters & videos.
• Learning how to manage an agency
• Running a campaign, managing the budget and evaluating success
• Working with the global category team by conducting competitor and market research with a range of methodology.
• Contributing to marketing plans
• Manage relevant sections on our company intranet site & ensure material is up to date ( making content & structural changes as required)
• Support the Communications Specialist with communication with front line colleagues including updates on campaigns plus production information.
• Understanding the core products and services of your business
• Understanding our innovation process as well as how we work with the category team for forecasting purposes.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Matric
• Marketing related Degree
•  Putting customers at the heart of what you do
• An ability to gather & make sense of large amounts of information & apply it to making business and customer-focused decisions.
• An ability to work successfully in and develop strong relationships with the marketing team plus remote colleagues
• Feeling comfortable in leading projects with a tight deadline & budget focus
• Having good analytical and interpersonal skills
• Having a ‘can do’ attitude and an ability to think outside the box
• An ability to present information in a format relevant to front line colleagues
• Being highly literate with an eye for design / creativity and paying excellent attention to detail & accuracy
• Being comfortable to make decisions, as well as using your own initiative to deliver projects
• Being able to multi-task and deliver at real pace
• Managing to manage your emotions to remain calm, focused & optimistic while dealing with a number of demands at the same time
• Having an ambition for career progression within marketing