Career Openings at 99C

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• To build and sustain strong and long-lasting relationships with clients
• Ensuring constant and effective flow of communication between agency, client, and suppliers as well as arranging, attending and documenting meetings
• Execute and oversee the implementation of digital campaigns across various platforms, including social media web, and display advertising.
• Assist with preparation and delivery of top-quality briefs and proposals
• Co-ordinate internal strategic, creative, media and production teams to manage jobs from concept to final delivery on Website, App, Email, Social, Paid Media and/or other digital channels that also effectively answers client briefs.
• Handling status documents, job bags, campaign costs and invoicing
• Manage effective and accurate delivery of final elements to internal and external suppliers and ensure meticulous activation
• Assist with monitoring effectiveness of campaigns to ensure client campaigns are properly planned and reported on against campaign objectives, KPIs and metrics
• Maintain an active knowledge of industry and digital marketing trends to assist with proactively advising clients about digital marketing landscape developments
• Deliver jobs on time, on budget and continuously exceed client expectations

Requirements

Minimum relevant experience required:

• Digital Agency and/or Marketing Agency experience is essential
• Experience in a client service and/or project management role required
• Experience in running/managing campaigns and/or projects is ideal
• A good understanding of agency & creative process, process and did we mention process?
• Experience with the following platforms/programs: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel is essential.
• Experience with Workbook, Figma, Data Analytics platforms is a plus.

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Responsibilities:

Client Service

• Establish and maintain relationships with clients. Build trust through ongoing thought leadership in social media.
• Manage creative briefs, client feedback and delivery of content.
• Plan, create timelines, update status, manage deliverables and expectations.
• Set up, manage, conduct, and contact report on client presentations.
• When necessary, assist with the administration of cost estimates and billings thereof.
• Manage user security and access to clients’ accounts / tools / reports / dashboards.

Strategic Thinking

• Collaborate and contribute on Social Media proposals for:
• Planned and ad-hoc activity.
• Online listening, trend sourcing, outreach & tactical response
• Channel health or emerging channel creation
• Ideation, workshops, brainstorms etc.
• Contribute to Influencer Marketing and Content Marketing efforts.
• Regularly update teams / clients on current and emerging landscape trends, competitor activity and latest news

Content & Channel Planning

• Work closely with client & wider client service team to create, manage and maintain social content and/or communication calendars.
• Conduct regular research to monitor clients, consumer, influencer, competitor, industry, and social landscape/trends activity.
• Ensure each individual channel has clarity on plans, actions, responsibilities, and social posting schedule with best practice in mind.

Content & Channel Administration

• Assist and/or manage the production of content on social jobs.
• Ensure collaboration with creative, paid media and other relevant departments for effective execution of work.
• Scheduling & deactivation of content across channels.
• Ensure effective searchability / tracking / tagging across content.
• Manage client’s creative content bible.
• Be an advanced user in all tech and tools relevant to your role.
• Ad hoc community management as-and-when required.

Content & Channel Performance Management

• Work closely with Strategy department to ensure effective integration of efforts.
• Assist with Channel, Content, Campaign and Health Audits / Reporting
• Assist with Benchmark, Review, Live Listening and ROI Reporting
• Conduct regular performance checks & ensure escalations/recommendations are made timeously.
• Manage Creative Identity of Channel, Content, Templates and Spec sheets. 

Department Integration:

• Establish and manage relationships and/or partnerships with key leverage points that affect social media strategy, management and/or implementation. You’ll need to be able to collaborate and partner in any relevant exercises.

This is including but not limited to:

• In-House Departments
• Social Media Platforms
• Paid Media Agencies and/or Publishers
• Influencer Management
• Online Listening & Reputation Management
• Content Marketing & Production
• Technology Development (AR, VR or AI)
• Immerging technology etc.  

Requirements

• Relevant degree in advertising, marketing, social media, communication science or equivalent
• Work experience in Social Media and/or Agency Environment
• Experience in the fundamentals of classical and digital marketing
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Public speaking and presentation skills is beneficial.
• Self-motivated, hard-working and eager to learn attitude.
• Highly organised, strong attention to detail, deadline driven, ability to problem solve and confident in a fast-paced environment.
• Deep understanding of the various social media and immerging marketing channels
• Experience with retail brands is beneficial.
• Valid, driver's licence and own transport.

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Job Scope includes but is not limited to: 

• Working in a team under the leadership of a Group Head and Creative Director to conceptualise and execute campaigns based on both client and internal briefs
• Present work imaginatively and confidently to clients and senior creatives.
• Be skilled in design and conceptualisation
• Maintain exceptionally high standards for execution and attention to detail
• Collaborate and communicate well with the team and other departments
• Have an eternally positive disposition especially when the going gets rough

Requirements

Minimum relevant experience and skills/attributes required:

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Relevant years’ experience as an art director in a large/integrated Advertising Agency
• Relevant years’ previous experience in a high-volume environment
• Demonstrated experience with social media design across various social media platforms
• Proficient experience in design software
• Knowledge of the digital landscape, specifically social platforms and its relevant features (Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok, etc) as well as ecommerce platforms
• Has experience in basic animation/motion graphics & video editing – will be a bonus, but not essential 
• Understanding of UI/UX digital marketing best practices – will be a bonus, but not essential 
• Strong interpersonal skills; a team player, persuasive negotiator, positive and innovative thinker
• Maintain high standards for execution and attention to detail
• Highly motivated and a high level of initiative; ability to work independently, in support of the agency’s creative goals and the client’s business objectives

Requirements:

• Experience in digital and experiential advertising advantageous
• Able to multi-task, work to tight deadlines, and follow agency process 
• Refined design aesthetic & meticulous eye for detail 
• Has an interest in fashion, culture & other lifestyle trends
• Work ethic: Should be able to describe oneself as “Committed, reliable, curious, self-motivated, flexible, adaptable, team player"
• Flexible to work outside of normal working hours (overtime if and when required)
• Prior experience on Workbook will be advantageous, but not essential 

Other:

• Driver’s license with own vehicle

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Duties:

• Software systems conceptualisation, scoping, costing and execution
• Creation of micro services in AWS using NodeJS and Lambda
• Building responsive mobile-first websites from supplied creative
• Maintaining in-house applications and productivity tools
• Developing and maintaining Progressive Web Applications
• Evaluating and making recommendations on website performance metrics
• Providing technical guidance to clients and matching the correct stack to requirements
• Identify and address performance and security issues in the frontend code.
• Working with backend developers to create and consume APIs
• Providing detailed feedback of progress through verbal and written reports
• Maintaining code repos in our source control system
• Attending and contributing to technical meetings and daily stand-up
• Contributing to the internal development of staff, systems, and processes at 99c
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior frontend developers
• Stay up to date with the latest frontend development trends, techniques, and technologies
• Attending client meetings, presenting work to client
• Ability to scope out technical projects and input on technical requirements Client for proposals

Responsibilities

• Development of Websites, Desktop Applications and Progressive Web Applications using Vue3 and Quasar
• Old Mutual Retirement Game (www.retirementgame.co.za)
• 99c Website (www.99c.co.za)
• Davidoff Coffee (www.davidoffcoffee.co.za)
• Development of Web apps with Vue2 and Vuetify
• Racebook (Vue2 + Vuetify, Axios, AWS Lambda, S3, Cloudfront, RDS, EC2) (www.racebook.co.za)
• SidekickPeople staff directory (NodeJS, AWS Lambda, MS ActiveDirectory) (www.sidekickpeople.co.za)
• Development and maintenance of websites with basic HTML, CSS and JS
• AutoCarTruck (Bootstrap, jQuery) (www.autocartruck.com)
• ShopriteX (www.shopritex.co.za)
• Rainmaker Media (www.rainmakermedia.co.za)

Requirements

• 6+ years in frontend dev across multiple disciplines and devices
• 4+ years’ experience in developing web and hybrid applications
• Excellent frontend HTML and CSS skills
• Extensive understanding of system architecture and the JS ecosystem including NodeJS
• Strong database and data manipulation skills
• Knowledge of modern JS frameworks (Vue in particular)
• Understanding of AWS systems and operations
• Proven experience as a Frontend Developer or similar role, with a strong portfolio displaying previous work.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and meet project deadlines.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Canvas, AR and 3D JavaScript solutions (WebGL, FabricJS, ThreeJS)
• Experience with Vue 3 Quasar framework building Electron, Android and Desktop apps.

Tech used:

• VueJS 2 and 3 (plain JS and Typescript)
• SASS/Bootstrap
• Quasar Vue Framework
• Vuetify Vue Framework
• NodeJS
• SQL Database
• AWS Lambda (microservices/APIs)
• Microsoft Power Suite and ActiveDirectory
• Figma

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Brief summary of main duties include but are not limited to:

• Media research, data collection and aggregation
• Quality control of target audiences, keywords and placements
• Campaign setup across paid media platforms (social media, search, shopping and display)
• Budget management across channels and campaigns
• Effective campaign optimisation to achieve performance targets
• Regularly analyse and seek opportunities to improve campaign performance
• Trend monitoring to assist develop digital paid media strategies
• Assess, plan, setup and test campaign tracking / conversions
• Post campaign analysis, analytical media reporting with insights and recommendations

Minimum Relevant Experience required:

• 1-2 years in a paid media manager role

Personal Skills & Attributes:

• Passionate about digital advertising and marketing
• Very high attention to details
• Proactive, self-starter, entrepreneurial attitude
• Enthusiastic problem solver
• Honest, punctual, responsible
• Good communicator
• Time management
• Analytical
• Team player
• Requirements
• Google Ads certifications (Search, Display, Video and Shopping)
• Google Analytics certification
• Facebook Blueprint (advantageous)

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Summary of main duties:

• Translate the brief and the strategic requirements into a compelling creative solution
• Presentation of work to the Creative Group Head and/or Creative Director
• Be the custodian and creator of the copy, tone and language style of the Client's brand
• Together with an Art Director, generate effective, innovative and compelling creative concepts for individual ads or campaigns based on sound strategies
• Pro-actively identify creative digital trends and opportunities
• Direct and produce effective, impactful and compelling advertising that reflects insight into the task, the brand and the target market
• Take ownership of your tasks and actively manage the creative process to progress towards deadline

Requirements

Qualifications required:

• Relevant degree/diploma
• Be proficient in PowerPoint/Keynote, MS Word

Minimum relevant experience and skills/attributes required:

• Revelant years’ conceptual copywriting experience within an advertising agency
• Strong conceptual ability
• Advanced brand copywriting
• Attention to detail
• A solid portfolio that reflects creative copywriting proficiencies – both ATL and Digital work
• Understanding of advertising as a selling tool  
• Capability to take on campaigns with multi-element tasks which require a concept and a thought through process
• Accept guidance and respond well to criticism 
• Resilient – can accept setbacks 
• Finely honed copywriting skills and latest techniques
• Have a great sense of humour
• Have a basic understanding of writing for SEO and keywords
• AdWords, Analytics, Reporting
• Must demonstrate creative insight and brilliance for client solutions across all media platforms
• Create copy across multiple channels
• Consistently produce creative elements against a deliverables list 
• Lead brainstorms and conceptualization
• Lead the craft and design of an idea
• Detail-obsessed big thinker, passionate and hard-working, self-motivated team player with the ability to grasp a client's strategy and brand, and deliver beautiful, insightful, polished work

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Responsibilities include and are not limited to:

• Forming an integral part of the client service team in order to ensure that briefs are adhered to and Client Brand is always of utmost importance
• Ensuring that appropriate timings are adhered to
• Ensuring that all internal processes are adhered to
• Managing multiple stakeholders at once
• Ensuring that relationships are fostered and sustained internally and with client

Requirements

• At least 3 years’ experience as an account manager in an advertising agency
• Proven track record of working on ATL and Digital campaigns
• Tertiary qualification in advertising highly advantageous and preferred
• Previous ad agency or brand management experience
• Previous TTL experience
• Candidate will need to be someone who can hit the ground running, someone who takes initiative and can work well independantly with minimum senior level input
• Excellent time management
• Proven experience working on Product and price campaigns
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strategically driven for the betterment of the client’s business
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• Committed collaborative team player
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Strong communicator who is able to give clear guidance and direction whilst operating under pressure, with tight turnarounds and short deadlines
• Outstanding attention to detail and highly organised
• Proficient in MS Office
• Prior experience on Workbook advantageous but not essential