Current Opportunities at Flash Group

Description

Analysis and Design:

• Sound knowledge of OO design principles and patterns.
• Understanding of ORM frameworks (.NET Entity Framework).
• Understanding of Microservices, REST and MVC driven web frameworks.

LEADERSHIP KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Providing real-time, ongoing coaching and feedback to team members throughout the year
• On-time completion of performance management activities including regular 1:1s and Bi-annual performance reviews through GPS
• Supporting employee development including facilitation of career development conversations and crafting development plans for current and future needs
• Taking action to hire and retain high-performers and address poor performance
• Proactively manage change initiatives within the team including sufficient planning/ preparation and communication to minimise disruption and support employee adoption.
• Role modelling the behaviours that support and drive the Flash culture and values

Skills:

• Strong C# .Net Core skills
• Strong experience in RESTful web services
• Strong experience with Relational DBMS, MSSQL.
• Experience with microservices architecture and design
• Versed in DevOps methodology including setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Ability to communicate about technology in non-technical terms to colleagues and Clients.
• Ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure.
• Good leadership skills

Advantageous:

• Java (Java / J2EE)
• Identity Server authentication.
• Experience with Blazor, PHP and React
• Solid grasp of Cloud Native architecture
• Exposure to mobile apps development (primarily Android).
• Oracle/MySQL

Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Support and enhancement of an established, multi-faceted technology platform, and associated 3rd party integrations.
• Work with system architects to evolve and improve business orchestration APIs
• Work closely with Solutions Architects, Team Leads and Product Manager to deliver on business requirements
• Provide work estimates based on analyzed business and technical requirements.
• Working closely with QA to identify development and production issues.
• Assisting in out of hours’ production releases when required, as well as out-of-hours support when necessary.
• Manage, support and mentor team members in the team.

Taking responsibility for ensuring changes are:

• unit and integration tested
• documented
• optimized to ensure benchmarks are met.

Minimum Requirements:

• Have a minimum of 10 years’ experience in software development
• Experience in leading and guiding developers.
• Be passionate about technology, enthusiastic about problem solving, and constantly seeking to learn and improve skillset.
• Have experience of working with enterprise scale application stacks.
• Have had exposure to the full software development lifecycle.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

Brand Strategy and Planning

•  Understand how to translate business objectives into brand/marketing strategy and interventions
•  Contribute to the development and execution of the brand strategy.
•  Contribute to the development and execution of annual marketing plans and 3-5 year strategic plans.
•  Execution of strong Flash plans across different channels, for different audiences and in line with different product/service categories.

Campaign Design and Management

•  Develop & launch brand campaigns, in line with strategy and brand vision.
•  Develop and implement content strategies for your product/service brand
•  Drive brand consistency and overall brand awareness across all campaigns, channels and to all relevant target audiences 
•  Write effective strategic and creative briefs, guide creative development process and evaluate creative work against the brand strategy and brief.
•  Develop strong, clear campaign messaging that encourages the desired behaviour change. 
•  Work with digital marketing team to analyse key marketing metrics (CPP, CPM), quality, and overall campaign performance.
•  Evaluate, negotiate, select and manage outside resources necessary to execute the marketing plan where necessary.
•  Accountable for budget management and the delivery of KPIs and agreed targets.

Market Research and Analysis

•  Analyse sales and market data to understand impact of campaigns on brand sales and help identify untapped opportunities for new product launches.
•  Gain/obtain customer and product usage insights, identify new opportunities, build relevant customer personas through research, surveys and interviews.
•  Partake in regular field visits to meet customers.
•  Draw on sound market intel & competitor knowledge to identify opportunities and drive strategic decisions for marketing campaigns.
•  Drive and partake in any consumer research initiatives aimed at getting a more thorough understanding of who your customers are.

Stakeholder Management 

•  Ongoing communication and presentations on campaigns and tactics to both internal and external stakeholders.
•  Collaborate with the marketing Manager, creative studio, digital marketing team and 3rd party agencies to create and implement all aspects of the annual marketing plans across the group.
•  Lead and manage junior brand manager/s where relevant

LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE AREAS

•  Providing real-time, ongoing coaching and feedback to team members throughout the year.
•  On-time completion of performance management activities including regular 1:1s and Bi-annual performance reviews through GPS.
•  Supporting employee development including facilitation of career development conversations and crafting development plans for current and future needs.
•  Taking action to hire and retain high-performers and address poor performance
•  Proactively manage change initiatives within the team including sufficient planning/ preparation and communication to minimise disruption and support employee adoption.
•  Role modelling the behaviours that support and drive the Flash culture and values

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

•  Bachelor or post-graduate degree / diploma with good results 
•  Minimum of 4 – 6 years Brand Management experience required
•  Must have experience in any of these areas: Content marketing, Search engine optimisation(SEO), search engine marketing(SEM) and social media marketing(SMM). 
•  Experience in using eMarketing
•  Software and Google Analytics
•  Fintech familiarity a bonus
•  Main market brand experience a bonus

BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS / ATTRIBUTES:

•  Creative and strategic thinker with a strong understanding of branding and marketing
•  Uses analytical thinking to understand problems and identify appropriate solutions
•  Identifies opportunities and takes initiative to act of these
•  Collaborative and team-oriented
•  Flexible in a dynamic and changing work environment
•  Strong communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to engage and influence multiple stakeholders across the business
•  Open to trying new things or ways of working
•  Provides constructive feedback to team members