Jobs at The Unlimited

To lead strategy for Product in the Customer journey.

Develop Product that shifts the business into new categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Set Product Strategy for the business.
• Ensure Product Strategy is executed.
• Manage and maintain the Life time value and GP’s of products.
• Product Innovation and concept creation - Innovate and create products that deliver unbeatable value that our customers cannot get anywhere else.
• Manage the strategic relationships and negotiations with product fulfilment Partners.
• Ensure our product fulfillment is in accordance with the agreed SLA’s.
• Responsible for Strategic Product Value Management.
• Understand and pro-actively manage product performance.
• Ensure product strategy keeps our products relevant irrespective of state of economy.
• Oversee scripting and testing for the Business.

Knowledge, Experience & Skill:

• Relevant Tertiary Degree
• 10 Years minimum working experience
• Ability to understand economic situation and direction of SA
• Passion and knowledge of technology and how it can be and is used for innovating technology in insurance, motor vehicle, insurance health, life, cellular and legal
• Experience and understanding of insurance cells would be beneficial
• Experience in digital for the delivery of customer facing service solutions would be beneficial.
• Strong Commercial knowledge

Personal Characteristics:

• Conscious
• Vulnerable
• Courageous
• Emotionally Resilient
• Own it Do it Now
• Passion for Innovation, Creativity and Business
• Forward thinking
• Leadership style inspirational with a balance of strategic skills and strong ‘people’ orientation
• Well rounded, resilient and self-aware individual who is open to change and personal development
• Entrepreneurial, free thinker who will challenge the status quo and push boundaries
• Must have the capacity to grow their strategic ability
• Confident – someone who is able to hold their own with shareholders and be resilient in a demanding environment
• Hands-on, highly organized, makes things happen
• Self-motivated
• Self-aware

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Become the driving force behind a cutting edge, enterprise wide microservices platform.                                                                     

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead a hardcore engineering team in the design and implementation of strategic, enterprise wide microservices based solutions. Bring your architectural, TDD, DevOps and innovation skills to the fore, evangelise and drive technology into the organisation. Champion microservices adoption within the organization.
• Team Player, finisher, someone who takes pride in the final product.
• The ideal candidate is a technologist able to lead and guide a team of highly skilled engineers in developing solutions that fully integrate and collaborate with existing IT systems to solve complex business solutions. Candidate should have a holistic view of enterprise solutions, a solid background in agile and a flair for performance engineering, application development and security.                                           

Knowledge and Experience:

• Relevant qualification10 – 15 years solid experience showing a progression from development through to architecture.
• 5 years at a technical lead and/or architect level
• First and foremost a broad area of technical knowledge.
• Solid .Net, C# and Core experience.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture
• Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms
• Demonstrated knowledge of OAuth/HMAC/token-based authentication
• Solid Agile, DevOps, TDD
• Jira, Bamboo, Confluence, Bitbucket
• Show a passion for technology and interest in a wide variety of technologies (Java, PHP, Python, Jython, JavaScript, React Native, Flutter, Appcelerator, Node.js, NGinX, REST, AngularJS, etc.)
• Docker, Kubernetes
• ELK, Redis, mongoDB, etc.
• Kafka, Spark, etc.
• Solid cloud – Azure, AWS, Google
• SaaS

Personal Characteristics:

• Conscious
• Vulnerable
• Courageous
• Emotional resilient
• Own it Do it Now

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To maximise the value a customer experiences through specific channels or segment along the customer journey to increase customer lifetime value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and implementing channel or segment specific marketing strategy
• Analyze customers' purchasing habits and desires and develop effective ways to engage with customers
• Develop and implement strategies to generate interest in products, creating demand for the products
• Advise on appropriate promotional procedures established from customer data analysis and current trends.
• Marketing Strategy development to attain defined business objectives throughout product categories
• Head responsibility to develop, execute and performance of programs created to enhance presence plus ultimate take-away.
• Contribute to organization’s goals plus objectives and enhance market share and sales performance.
• Establish channel strategies along with execute associated plans.
• Prepare promotional plan in designated channels with crucial customer segments
• Provide marketing assistance to sales team through answering clients and product inquiries.
• Develop, supervise and improve procedures to link entire marketing activities with sales team activities.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

• Tertiary qualification – Diploma/Certificate
• Technical qualification is preferable
• Minimum of 10 years in the role of marketing
• Extensive knowledge of all aspects of branding
• Strong project management abilities in order to effectively oversee strategy
• Need strong analytical abilities in order to analyze customers' purchasing habits and desires and develop effective ways for an organization to engage with them.
• Strong knowledge of consumer industry
• Experience analyzing large amounts of data and trends
• Ability to think critically and creatively

Personal Characteristics:

• Creative
• Passion for Innovation, Creativity and Business
• Forward thinking
• Commercially focused
• Leadership style inspirational with a balance of strategic skills and strong ‘people’ orientation
• Well rounded, resilient and self-aware individual who is open to change and personal development
• Entrepreneurial, free thinker who will challenge the status quo and push boundaries
• Must have the capacity to grow their strategic ability
• Confident – able to hold their own with shareholders and be resilient in a demanding environment
• Hands-on approach
• Self-motivated 

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Purpose of the Role:

• To optimize the Customer Journey to increase brand awareness and acquisition.

Key Responsibilities / Key Performance Areas:

• Journey mapping, design, implementation and optimisation.
• Drive conversion in sales through nudging communication and behavior mechanisms.
• To monitor and measure Brand awareness, recognition and credibility;
• Drive return of investments of acquisition channels.
• Drive Customer experience.
• To actively be involved in the Creative process throughout the business to ensure compliance;
• To drive and develop creation of brand communication elements and creative;
• Very keen eye of following market and competitive landscape;
• Understanding channels, tactics and methods to reach audiences where brand is currently not playing.

Knowledge and Experience:

• 3-year Bachelor’s Degree (Marketing or relevant Business Degree)
• 5 years working experience
• Direct Brand managing experience preferable
• Direct Marketing experience preferable
• Experience in relation to acquisition tools and tactics.
• Experience in digital selling
• Understanding of data analytics and tools.
• Business science background/Consumer Science/Behavioural Economics
• Ability to pull strategy from anything and drive growth sales.

Skill Competencies:

• Project management
• Experienced in product sales.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of digital as a sales tool.
• Understanding of social media as a brand building tool.
• Ability to scan an external environment with a view to identifying market trends.
• Research and analytical skills
• Effective budget management

Personal Characteristics:

• Conscious
• Vulnerable
• Courageous
• Emotionally Resilient
• Own it Do it Now
• Passion for Innovation, Creativity and Business
• Forward thinking
• Commercially focused
• Leadership style inspirational with a balance of strategic skills and strong ‘people’ orientation
• Well rounded, resilient and self-aware individual who is open to change and personal development
• Entrepreneurial, free thinker who will challenge the status quo and push boundaries
• Must have the capacity to grow their strategic ability
• Confident – someone who is able to hold their own with shareholders and be resilient in a demanding environment
• Hands-on approach
• Self-motivated

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Purpose of the Role:

• To be the operational lead for Brand in key areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Planning and executing brand activities geared towards increasing the primary revenue streams for the business.
• Provide Marketing strategy and direction/analysis for new opportunities to the primary business stream
• Overall brand building and awareness.
• Manage the public perception of the brand and drive PR to ensure a consistency in terms of “look and feel” across all communication.
• Support and drive Research to build positively on the current perception of offerings and the company as the automatic choice.
• Manage the output and workflow within the Creative and Communications
• Ideate, develop and execute marketing campaigns. Effective Media planning, buying and execution utilizing all the aspects of the Marketing machinery, i.e. Brand Marketing, Direct Marketing, Social Marketing and PR.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

• Postgraduate Degree
• 5 years’ experience in an Advertising Agency or managing Marketing Teams
• Understanding of Agency operations
• Leadership experience

Personal Characteristics:

• Strong Leadership
• Excellent Communication
• Team Player
• Driven to Succeed
• Action Oriented
• Self-Motivated
• Ability to handle conflict in an appropriate manner
• Simple and Agile
• Open to change
• Ambitious
• Entrepreneurial
• Conscious
• Vulnerable
• Courageous
• Emotionally Resilient
• Own it Do it Now
• Passion for Innovation, Creativity and Business
• Forward thinking
• Leadership style inspirational with a balance of strategic skills and strong ‘people’ orientation
• Well rounded, resilient and self-aware individual who is open to change and personal development
• Entrepreneurial, free thinker who will challenge the status quo and push boundaries
• Must have the capacity to grow their strategic ability
• Hands-on, highly organized, makes things happen
• Self-motivated
• Self-aware