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What We'll Bring:
- The Senior Director, Marketing – Africa is a strategic, commercially driven leader responsible for shaping and executing an integrated, data-led Marketing and Corporate Communications agenda, with a primary focus on B2B growth that directly drives revenue growth, market expansion, and brand leadership across the region, while aligning regional priorities with TransUnion’s enterprise marketing strategy and global growth objectives.
- This role operates as a core member of the Africa executive leadership team (ExCo), influencing enterprise strategy and advocating for marketing as a growth engine. The role requires a forward-thinking leader with deep expertise in Account-Based Marketing (ABM), AI-enabled marketing, and full-funnel demand generation, capable of securing investment, driving prioritization, and delivering measurable business impact.
- The Senior Director owns the Africa marketing budget, leads regional strategy aligned to global priorities, and ensures marketing is tightly integrated with sales, products, and strategy to accelerate pipeline, revenue, and customer value.
- This role reflects a predominantly B2B organization (c.98%), requiring deep expertise in enterprise marketing, account-based engagement, and stakeholder-led communications across complex markets.
What You'll Bring:
- Extensive senior leadership experience (12+ years) in enterprise B2B marketing within data, technology, or analytics-driven businesses, ideally operating across multiple markets
- Proven track record of operating at ExCo or equivalent level, influencing strategy, investment, and business outcomes
Deep expertise in:
- Account-Based Marketing (ABM)
- Revenue marketing and pipeline generation
- AI-driven and data-led marketing strategies
- Strong commercial acumen, with demonstrated ownership of marketing budgets and ROI accountability
- Experience building and leading high-performing, modern marketing teams
- Proven ability to operate effectively in a global matrix organization
- Expertise across full-funnel marketing, including demand generation, brand, digital, content, PR, and events
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional leaders
- Demonstrated ability to translate market insights into actionable growth strategies
- Excellent communication and executive presence, including media and board-level engagement
- Education: Degree in Marketing, Business, or related field (MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred)
Impact You'll Make:
Executive Leadership & Influence:
- Acts as a trusted advisor to the Africa CEO and ExCo, shaping business priorities and advocating for marketing-led growth.
- Leverages strong commercial acumen and data-driven insight to influence budget allocation, strategic investments, and enterprise decisions, positioning marketing as a core driver of revenue, client expansion, and market leadership, while ensuring Africa’s priorities are represented in and aligned to enterprise decision-making and global investment strategies.
- Acts as a strategic advisor on both commercial growth and corporate reputation, supporting the CEO and ExCo in navigating market positioning, stakeholder engagement, and reputational risk.
Regional Marketing Strategy & Growth:
- Defines and leads a modern, insight-led marketing strategy that translates enterprise priorities into region-specific growth plans, ensuring alignment to global objectives while optimizing local market dynamics.
- Ensures disciplined investment tied to ROI, pipeline, and revenue, while driving full-funnel performance from brand awareness through to conversion and customer growth.
Demand Generation, ABM & Revenue Marketing:
- Leads a next-generation demand engine anchored in ABM, precision targeting, and personalized engagement.
- Partners closely with sales to align on accounts and revenue goals, driving pipeline growth through integrated campaigns and lifecycle marketing, underpinned by clear attribution and performance metrics.
AI-Enabled & Data-Driven Marketing:
- Champions AI and advanced analytics to enable predictive targeting, scalable personalization, and campaign optimization.
- Embeds a test-and-learn culture, ensuring decisions are driven by data, insights, and measurable commercial outcomes.
Corporate Communications & Reputation Leadership:
- Leads an integrated corporate communications function across internal and external audiences, ensuring clear, consistent, and strategically aligned messaging.
- Owns and drives TransUnion Africa’s regional narrative, aligned to CEO priorities and enterprise strategy, while overseeing executive and CEO communications, thought leadership, and high-impact engagements.
- Shapes media relations and market positioning beyond campaign PR, and acts as a trusted advisor to ExCo on crisis and reputational risk.
- Drives internal communications to support engagement, culture, and change across markets.
- Leads public affairs and stakeholder engagement with regulators, industry bodies, and partners to position TransUnion on financial inclusion, data integrity, and digital transformation across Africa.
Operating Model & Global Alignment:
- Implements and evolves the global marketing operating model within Africa, ensuring alignment, consistency, and scalability.
- Acts as the key link between regional and global teams while championing agile ways of working and integration into global planning cycles.
Integrated Campaigns & Communications:
- Oversees the delivery of integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns across digital, events, paid media, and content.
- Ensure campaigns are insight-led, targeted, and aligned with revenue and pipeline objectives, with clear attribution and performance measurement.
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Builds strong partnerships across Sales, Product, Strategy, and Risk & Compliance, aligning marketing to business priorities.
- Enables sales through insights and programs, while feeding market intelligence into product and strategic decision-making.
Team Leadership & Capability Building:
- Leads and develops a high-performing marketing team, building capabilities in ABM, digital, AI, and data analytics.
- Fosters a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement, while effectively managing internal teams and external partners.
Brand, Reputation & Risk Management:
- Protects and enhances brand and reputation across the region, ensuring alignment between marketing, communications, and corporate positioning.
- Provides oversight on reputational risk, regulatory considerations, and ethical standards working closely with Legal and Risk.
- Ensures brand governance while enabling locally relevant narrative and market positioning.
End Date: June 24, 2026
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What We'll Bring:
- At TransUnion, we empower our associates to take ownership of their professional journeys. We cultivate a culture where continuous learning, leadership, and innovation are part of everyday life—regardless of job title. With the support of collaborative colleagues, dedicated mentors, and cutting-edge tools, our people are equipped to grow, lead, and make a meaningful impact.
- Our HR Benefits and Operations Consultant will be responsible for implementing and managing compensation structures and employee benefits programs that attract, retain, and motivate talent. This role ensures compliance with local labour laws and internal policies and procedures, while aligning total rewards strategies with business objectives.
- We pride ourselves on being an energetic and close-knit team, always on the lookout for fresh, creative and different ideas to support our partnership with employees and business. We are highly driven, motivated and are always adaptive to changes within the business on strategic initiatives and execution, ensuring we never lose our people impact and touch.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, or related field
- At least 7+ years of experience in benefits and rewards management
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel, HRIS systems (e.g., Workday) are essential
- In-depth knowledge of South African labour laws and tax regulations
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong presentation skills, with experience preparing executive-level reports.
- Familiarity with various grading systems and compensation frameworks.
- A team player capable of working within a collaborative and fast paced environment.
- Ability to effectively lead and manage a small team to achieve operational goals.
Key Attributes:
- Detail-oriented and data-driven
- Operational execution capability
- High integrity and confidentiality
- Collaborative and proactive
Impact You'll Make:
Benefits Administration
- Oversee administration of employee benefits including medical aid, retirement plans, life and disability insurance, and wellness programs.
- Evaluate and recommend enhancements to benefits offerings based on employee needs and market trends.
- Manage relationships with third-party benefits providers and brokers.
- Ensure timely enrollment, claims processing, and communication of benefits information.
- Manage various grading systems to support organizational structure and pay equity.
Rewards Planning & Management
- Partner with CoE to maintain competitive salary structures and incentive programs applicable to eight (8) African Countries and more.
- Apply regional insight of African markets to inform compensation strategies across the continent.
- Support annual merit review cycles, including salary increases and bonus allocations.
- Advise leadership on compensation processes for new hires, promotions, and internal transfers.
HR Compliance & Governance
- In addition to the above the HR Consultant will be responsible for ensuring that all applicable HR Policies and Procedures comply with labour laws, tax regulations, and governance standards.
- Ensure regulatory compliance to all relevant legislation, including BBBEE and transformation requirements. Prepare for and support Department of Labour audits.
- Prepare and submit regulatory reports related to benefits and compensation.
- Support audits and ensure accurate documentation and record-keeping.
Analytics & Reporting
- Provide regular reporting on HR metrics, benefits utilization, and cost analysis.
- Develop dashboards and insights to support strategic HR decisions.
- Monitor trends and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
Employee Communication & Support
- Lead communication campaigns to educate employees on compensation, benefits and policy changes.
- Address employee queries and resolve issues related to pay and benefits.
- Support onboarding and offboarding processes with compensation and benefits components.
Team Lead
- Oversee daily operations by monitoring workflows, assign tasks, and make sure deadlines and quality standards are met.
- Support and develop employees through guidance, training, and feedback to team members. This may include coaching for performance improvement and facilitating professional development.
End Date: June 30, 2026
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