New Jobs at Ares Holdings

Merchandising:

• Product Planning and Selection: Identifying customer demand, analysing market trends, and selecting products that meet those needs.
• Inventory Management: Forecasting sales, managing inventory levels, and ensuring products are available in stores or online.
• Pricing Strategies: Developing and implementing pricing strategies to maximize profitability.
• Vendor Management: Building and maintaining relationships with vendors and ensuring a consistent supply of products.
• Merchandising Strategy Implementation: Overseeing the placement of products in stores or online, ensuring proper displays, and managing promotional activities.
• Sales Performance Analysis: Monitoring sales data, identifying trends, and making recommendations for improvement.
• Budget Management: Managing budgets related to product development, inventory, and merchandising activities.
• Team Leadership: Supervising and motivating merchandising team members.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Working with other departments, such as regional merchandising, sales, and operations, to achieve company goals.

Marketing:

• Brand Strategy Development: Formulate and implement brand strategies aligned with business objectives, including target audience identification, brand positioning, and messaging.
• Brand Consistency: Maintain brand integrity across all touchpoints, ensuring consistent messaging, visual identity, and customer experience.
• Marketing Campaign Planning: Develop and execute marketing campaigns to increase brand awareness, drive engagement, and achieve sales targets.
• Market Research and Analysis: Conduct market research to understand consumer behaviour, identify trends, and assess competitive landscape.
• Competitive Analysis: Monitor competitor activities and identify opportunities to differentiate the brand.
• Performance Tracking and Reporting: Track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of brand initiatives and make data-driven decisions, both locally and regionally, based on business cadence
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with various departments, including regaional marketing, sales, product development, and customer service, to ensure brand alignment.
• Budget Management: Manage brand marketing budgets effectively and ensure optimised allocation of resources.
• Content Strategy: Develop and oversee content strategy to ensure it aligns with brand messaging and target audience.
• Digital Marketing: Manage and optimize digital marketing channels to increase brand reach and engagement.

Requirements

• Degree in Marketing, E-Commerce, Retail, Business or any other related field
• 5+ years' experience in a retail trading environment, 2+ years' experience in managing a team
• Advanced Microsoft office ability (Excel advanced)
• Exercise sound judgement based on analysis, experience and fit for purpose
• Strong ability to interpret sales data, tracking and reporting, and knowledge on how to improve these metrics and execute
• Budgeting and reporting skills with a strong understanding of marketing & merchandising KPI measurements
• Strong customer first service focus and flexible in approach
• Drives collaboration and promotes teamwork
• A strong understanding of lifestyle brands and the market opportunities within the retail, wholesale and e-commerce sector
• Business and commercial acumen

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Overview:

• Product Planning and Selection: Identifying customer demand, analysing market trends, and selecting products that meet those needs.
• Inventory Management: Forecasting sales, managing inventory levels, and ensuring products are available in stores or online.
• Pricing Strategies: Developing and implementing pricing strategies and promotions to maximize profitability and meet business targets
• Vendor Management: Building and maintaining relationships with vendors, negotiating contracts, and ensuring a consistent supply of products.
• Merchandising Strategy Implementation: Overseeing the placement of products in stores or online, ensuring proper displays, and managing promotional activities.
• Sales Performance Analysis: Monitoring sales data, identifying trends, and making recommendations for improvement. Including local and regional reporting according to business cadence.
• Budget Management: Managing budgets related to product development, inventory, and merchandising activities.
• Team Leadership: Leading and motivating planning team members.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Working with other departments, such as marketing, sales, and operations, and finance to achieve company goals.
• Forecasting: Forecasting product demand requirements and plan inventory purchases accordingly.

Requirements

• Tertiary education in Planning, Merchandising or any other related field
• 5+ years' experience in a retail trading environment, 2+ years' experience in managing a team
• Advanced Microsoft office ability (Excel advanced)
• Exercise sound judgement based on analysis, experience and fit for purpose
• Strong ability to interpret sales data, tracking and reporting, and knowledge on how to improve these metrics and execute
• Budgeting and reporting skills with a strong understanding of merchandising, demand and supply planning KPI measurements
• Strong customer first service focus and flexible in approach
• Drives collaboration and promotes teamwork
• A strong understanding of lifestyle brands and the market opportunities within the retail, wholesale and e-commerce sector
• Business and commercial acumen

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Main purpose

• This position act as the gatekeeper for the companies by greeting, welcoming, and directing victors appropriately.
• Ensuring that security and telecommunications systems are maintained. Directing calls and messages in a professional and efficient manner

Key Responsibilities 

• Answer the phones and direct the calls
• Be professional in dealing with incoming calls
• Manage phone system, i.e. message system, extensions, etc.
• Take messages and direct accordingly 

Office and kitchen Co-ordination

• Identify and arrange all maintenance for office building
• Get quotes for repairs and have them authorized before placing orders
• Ensure the work is done and match to quote and sign off with senior person
• Place orders with suppliers where directed 
• Ensure receptions area is presentable an always welcoming

STATIONARY MAINTANENCE

• Collect orders from HQ and retail stores
• Courier stationery ordering
• Place orders
• Check courier invoices and POD's to ensure validity and sign off for payment
• Distribute stationary
• Keep Inventory 

General Office Duties 

• Assist with Filing
• Assist departments as requested, time permitting
• Have good product knowledge, understand overall company processes, and know where to get information order to deal with queries in a quick and effective manner
• Be of assistance to the General Managers (Brand Managers)
• Assisting Senior Management with travel booking arrangements. (Flights, Uber, accommodation etc.)
• Arranging of gifts for sympathy, wedding (as per direction from line)
• Birthday calendar update and send out of messages on behalf of ARES group
• Be an ambassador to the companies and the brands

Office Cleaning Duties

• Ensuring that the office/reception area (windows, floors, tables, canteen etc) are always kept clean.
• Working out a schedule to assist the office cleaner to get around to all duties.

Boardroom Management

• Ensure boardroom is prepared for external visitors on arrival. Liase with Office Cleaner to arrange, water/coffee etc.
• MVPS guests- displaying their names "welcome John "on arrival

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Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and execute digital content strategies across social media, websites, email campaigns, and paid media. 
• Brief in optimize high-quality content (text, images, videos) tailored to different digital channels to the design agency. 
• Plan and manage digital advertising campaigns across platforms such as Google Ads and different Google Campaign (PMAX) META ads, and other PPC channels as well as newsletters and newsletter flows. 
• Track, analyse, and report on ad performance metrics (CTR, CPC, ROAS, conversion rates, etc.) to optimize campaigns – daily with the agency partner. 
• Conduct A/B testing on digital content and ads to improve engagement and ROI. 
• Collaborate with designers, copywriters, and developers to produce visually compelling and high-performing content. 
• Stay updated on SEO best practices and implement SEO strategies to enhance organic reach. 
• Utilize tools such as Google Analytics, Meta Business Suite to monitor content effectiveness. 
• Ensure content is aligned with brand guidelines, messaging, and tone of voice. 
• Research and apply emerging trends in digital marketing to improve content engagement and performance. 

Required Skills & Experience: 

• 2-5 years of experience in digital content creation, marketing campaigns, or digital advertising. 
• Proven experience in managing and optimizing digital ad campaigns (PPC, social media, and display ads). 
• Strong analytical skills with expertise in Google Analytics, Google Ads, Facebook Ads Manager, and other ad performance tools. 
• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills. 
• Hands-on experience with SEO tools, CMS platforms (e.g., Shopify), and email marketing tools (e.g., Klaviyo). 
• Knowledge of basic graphic design tools (Canva, Adobe Creative Suite) is a plus. 
• Ability to interpret data and adjust content strategy accordingly. 
• Strong project management skills with the ability to meet deadlines and multitask effectively. 
• Passion for digital trends, creativity, and innovation in content marketing. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience in B2C digital marketing. 
• Knowledge of marketing automation platforms and CRM systems. 
• Certification in Google Ads or Meta Blueprint is a plus.