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Advertising Specialist
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This is a full-time on-site role for an Advertising Specialist located in Midrand. The Advertising Specialist will be responsible for developing and implementing advertising campaigns, conducting market research, and analyzing campaign performance data. The role also includes collaborating with the marketing and sales teams to create compelling advertising content and strategies. Daily tasks include overseeing ad placement, assessing the effectiveness of advertisements, and adjusting strategies to maximize reach and effectiveness.
Qualifications
- Strong Analytical Skills and Data Analysis capabilities
- Marketing and Sales experience
- Excellent Communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Experience with advertising platforms and tools
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or related field
- Prior experience in an advertising role preferred
Paid Advertising Specialist
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Click Marketing is a Veteran-owned digital marketing agency based in the UK. Recognised as one of the UK's fastest-growing digital marketing agencies, we work primarily with start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses. Our team combines expertise, creativity, and the latest tools to deliver measurable results online.
We are also proud to support the Military and Veteran community by offering discounted services. From planning and branding to web development, SEO, and paid advertising, we craft tailored digital strategies that align with each client's brand and business goals.
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We are looking for a motivated
Paid Social Media & Google Advertising Specialist
to join our team on a contract basis. This is a fully remote role.
You will be responsible for planning, managing, and optimising paid advertising campaigns across social media and Google Ads. You will monitor performance through analytics, produce clear and actionable reports, and adjust campaigns to deliver the best possible return on investment.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Create, manage, and optimise paid campaigns across Google and social media platforms.
- Analyse data and provide insights to improve performance.
- Prepare regular reports on campaign results and recommendations.
- Collaborate with our wider team to ensure advertising efforts align with overall marketing strategies.
- Stay up to date with industry trends, tools, and best practices in paid media.
Qualifications
- Proven experience in
managing paid social media and Google Ads campaigns
. - Strong understanding of
digital marketing and web analytics
. - Proficiency with platforms such as Google Ads Manager, Facebook Ads Manager, and other marketing tools.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and reporting abilities.
- Ability to work independently, remotely, and to deadlines.
- A proactive and results-driven mindset.
Digital Advertising Specialist
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We're Hiring: Digital Advertising Specialist
At LTVplus, we're a remote-first company with a global team. This is a part-time role where you'll be focused on managing and optimizing our online stores, with the goal of increasing sales daily.
What you'll be doing:
- Setting up and updating products on either Shopify or Wayfair.
- Assisting with store tasks, including managing product listings, page content, and layout.
- Editing and improving existing product listings with SEO research to boost sales.
What you need to be successful:
- 1-2 years of experience in customer support, with a background in either Shopify or Wayfair.
- Proficiency in English, both written and spoken.
- Experience with relevant systems like Shopify, Wayfair, Zendesk, Gorgias, or Hubspot.
- Ability to work EST hours with a stable internet connection and a conducive remote setup.
Ready to join a global
digital advertising
team where your skills truly matter? We're looking for someone proactive who can work with minimal supervision.
If this sounds like you, apply today and join our global team #hiring #remotework #shopify #wayfair #seo #digitalmarketing #recruiting
Apply now and take the next step in your career. Applications close September 8th.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Senior Programmatic Advertising Specialist
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- Setting up, managing, and optimizing programmatic campaigns through DSPs such as DV360 or similar.
- Translating client objectives into smart targeting strategies, buying models, and creative deployment.
- Conducting data analysis to improve campaigns and share insights with clients.
- Coaching and guiding mid-level and junior specialists within the team.
- Actively contributing to strategic sessions and brainstorms with clients.
- Translating the latest industry trends into actionable innovations.
- Collaborating with colleagues from strategy, data, creative, and development teams.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in programmatic advertising.
- Extensive experience in setting up and managing campaigns across multiple DSPs (e.g., DV360, Xandr, The Trade Desk, Adform).
- Experience with both branding and performance-driven campaigns.
- Knowledge of cookieless targeting, audience planning, attribution, and incrementality testing.
- Strong analytical skills and data proficiency (e.g., experience with Google Analytics, Looker Studio, BigQuery, etc.).
- A commercial mindset and the ability to clearly communicate complex topics.
- Experience in client-facing roles, including presentations and strategic reporting.
- Fluent in English (both written and spoken).
Bonus points if you also have
- Experience with DOOH, digital audio, or retail media networks.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., DV360, GA4, Google Ads).
- Familiarity with workflow automation and scripting (e.g., Google Ads Scripts, DV360 Macros, APIs).
- Experience with DCO (Dynamic Creative Optimization) tools like Google Studio, CAPE, Smartly.io, or Bannerflow.
Specialist Advertising Umhlanga
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Our Advertising Services client is seeking a Performance & Reward Specialist to join their team based in Umhlanga, Durban .
Purpose of the JobThe Group Performance & Rewards Specialist will play a crucial role in driving performance in the organization and in ensuring competitive remuneration and reward.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years experience within a reward and benefits specialist function.
- Sound Retirement Funds and Medical Aid Funds experience.
- Payroll experience and knowledge desirable. Data analysis is critical to understanding adherence to policy.
- Strong project management and systems experience. Strong SOP and guideline skills.
- Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Vast Job Grading and Employment Equity submission experience.
- A solid understanding of local and an awareness of global regulatory reward frameworks, legislation, and best practice standards.
- Management of performance review processes.
- Implementation and management of rewards and recognition programs.
- Experience with reporting to REMCO.
- Management of the performance review process.
- Review best practices in performance management and drive process enhancements and re-design as appropriate.
- Review remuneration proposals for job offers and internal salary reviews.
- Prepare for Quarterly Remco meetings and maintain all documentation for such meetings.
- Identify and escalate remuneration gaps.
- Participate in annual salary surveys and extract insights informing remuneration policy and practices, and compensation decisions.
- Provide input into the design of bonus schemes and other short-term incentives.
- Prepare bonus schedules aligned to performance scores and incentive scheme rules.
- Develop and update pay scales to ensure internal and external equity. Ensure increases and benefits eligibility are aligned to policy.
- Analyse Employment Equity AA2 data and participate in the relevant meetings for the overall Employment Equity submission.
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders and benefit providers.
- Keep abreast of best practices in this field and continuously review.
- Facilitate Provident Fund Committee meetings.
- Facilitate the Job Grading process and ensure alignment of remuneration and benefits to grades.
- Formulate and maintain all performance and reward policies to ensure current practice is recorded.
- Manage compliance with relevant policies.
Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
#J-18808-LjbffrAdvertising Manager
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The South African Brand Team act as brand guardians for the ZA company. The primary department responsibilities include consumer insights, product marketing; in-store and packaging activation – including new product/variant launches, advertising; creative development, media planning and buying for brand/product activities, content, and events.
The Advertising Manager is responsible for the overall ZA Media and Advertising strategy across all campaigns, including delivery, performance measurement and optimisation, media agency management and working with Brand Specialists to ensure optimised media spend, efficient and effective creative and high impact campaigns that help us to grow our energy drinks business, our media properties, and events.
Responsibilities- Overarching, integrated media strategy across all advertising campaigns – ensuring all advertising plans are optimised to deliver awareness, impact, and engagement to achieve overarching marketing objectives
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders across owned/earned/shared media, events, content production, commercial partnerships, ensuring integration across all touch points
- Deliver impactful campaigns that are aligned to sales objectives and account plans
- Assess advertising ROI based on marketing mix modelling learnings to grow effectiveness of advertising and its contribution to sales
- Ensure media plans deliver effective, efficient, best-practice advertising campaigns
- Support Brand Specialists in the best implementation for advertising campaigns
- Ensure media planning and buying tactics are clear, fact-based, and optimised throughout each campaign and that post-buy learnings are collected
- Guide the ZA Brand Marketing Team on data-driven advertising opportunities, constantly identify, analyse, and leverage the latest media trends and emerging technologies, seeking out new opportunities and applying them to our media strategies
- Build in-team expertise across all relevant media channels including programmatic, social, search and broadcaster VOD/connected TV
- Understand and apply the DV360 and Google Campaign Manager tools and other relevant tools from main Social Media platforms to assess targeting and performance management quality
- Ensure compliance to GDPR in all advertising buying
- Work with Brand Specialists, the Media Agency, and Creative Agencies to deliver impactful, fit-for-purpose creative formats across our RedBull advertising campaigns
- Manage the media agency to inspire excellence and deliver best-practice integrated campaigns, with maximum effectiveness and efficiency, while constantly optimising ways of working and exploring new, innovative ways to connect with consumers
- Keep close cost-controlling systems in place, ensuring TV cost per GRP commitments and digital performance guarantees are held and TV inflation is pro-actively managed to minimize impact
- Cultivate a collaborative culture and strong agency-client relationship, ensuring best practice planning and buying and account servicing
- Perform annual media agency evaluation and develop/implement performance plans as needed
- Manage the budget, spend and ROI
- Contribute to the annual business planning process including analysis of media planning and buying and advertising creative effectiveness to deliver plans and initiatives that will grow brand health and sales
- Responsible for KPI setting, benchmarking, and controlling across all media to increase the value of media buys on an ongoing basis
- Manage and maintain the annual media budget
- University Degree
- Track record of delivering impactful campaigns of various sizes, from tactical online activations to multi-million-rand, 360° campaigns aligned across paid, owned, managed, and earned channels
- Project management experience, coordinating internal stakeholders, agencies, and other external partners (e.g., media publishers)
- Comfortable with data – you have an excellent understanding of TV and digital KPIs, their measurement and how to use data to unlock actionable insights
- Analytical and strategic mindset – you are a natural problem-solver, solution-focused and you know what it takes to build and grow brands
- FMCG experience with advertising budget responsibility or media agency background with deep knowledge of planning and buying, particularly TV and digital
- Budget management – capable and confident managing complex budget lines to deliver accurate phasing of large-scale, multi-channel media plans, including media cost controlling
- Media agency management experience, including negotiating optimal commercial conditions and optimising processes and quality of service
- Ability to build strong and effective working relationships with stakeholders of all levels and experience
- Experience in developing activities that resonate with consumers through creative empathy, innovative thinking, and good judgment of the creative work of others to achieve business results
- Solid understanding of the 18-24 Gen Z audience, their needs, pressure points, aspirations, and drivers is an advantage
- Minimum of 5 years professional experience in Marketing
- ZA market experience is essential
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#J-18808-LjbffrAdvertising Coordinator
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Onsite Position for SA Citizen
Reports to: Inland Account Manager
( Boksburg Area ) - Are you located in Boksburg, onsite role
CTC - R18,000-R25,000k
CORE PURPOSE OF THE JOB
The Advertising Coordinator is responsible for receiving and loading client briefs into the system for advertising, promotional, and marketing materials within specified timeframes. This role involves managing the production process, including briefing, amendment management, proof presentation, and ensuring client requirements are met.
PRINCIPAL DELIVERABLES
- Load and manage client briefs and changes, ensuring strict adherence to deadlines.
- Ensure quality assurance for data entered into the system and final outputs.
- Communicate effectively with departments, agencies, and clients to maintain optimal service levels.
- Understand the creative process and apply brand guidelines across media formats.
- Track and manage timelines, providing daily status updates on tasks.
- Liaise with internal staff and clients to gather necessary information and manage amendments.
- Assist clients by resolving brief queries and ensuring prompt responses.
- Manage all work through the system according to the training manual.
- Verify barcodes and product information on client briefs and follow up on image delivery.
- Maintain a continuous workflow for all client briefs and manage promotional briefs within critical path timelines.
- Brief the DTP Advertising team accurately and on time.
- Ensure correct creative themes and brand elements are included in briefs.
- Input accurate data into the system for scheduling and reporting.
- Work with internal teams to prioritize jobs based on critical path timelines.
- Liaise with the agency and DTP team on creative instructions and media bookings.
- Track job progress and communicate with Client DACs to ensure quality output and timely task completion.
- Maintain client confidentiality and uphold professional standards.
- Provide daily status updates and handle day-to-day queries.
- Check media bookings and assist with brief execution as needed.
- Flag missing elements and work with internal teams and service providers to meet critical deadlines.
- Manage job reverts and updates, ensuring correct system records and accurate output.
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Effective client interaction and relationship building.
- Swift resolution of brief queries and issues.
- Seamless production flow from brief to final proof and material delivery.
- Quality and timely system output for advert layouts and approvals.
- Adherence to system requirements and critical path deadlines.
COMPETENCIES REQUIRED
Qualifications and Skills:
- Matric essential; 3-4 years of experience in retail advertising preferred.
- Certificate or diploma in advertising or related field beneficial.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
Behaviours and Attributes:
- Demonstrates accuracy, precision, and thoroughness.
- Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
- Reliable, with a positive attitude and ability to work under pressure.
- Customer-focused, flexible, and dependable.
- Professional, maintains confidentiality, and handles criticism well.
- Strong communication skills, ethical behavior, and problem-solving abilities.
- Detail-oriented with good organizational skills and ability to prioritize.
- Open to change and technology-driven procedures.
- Own reliable transport is essential (non-negotiable).
WORKING CONDITIONS
- Open plan office environment.
- Interaction with team members, clients, and client suppliers on a front-line basis.
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Advertising Controller
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Job category: Media, Advertising, PR, Publishing and Marketing
Location: Durban
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
IntroductionWe are currently recruiting for an Advertising Controller to join our dynamic team. The purpose of the Advertising Controller is to produce creative and accurate advertising material and also assist with special projects and any other task requested by management.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES- Maintain and grow relationships with retailers through effective communication in terms of Guild promotions and advertising.
- Open and brief Regional Guild Promotions job via the Marketing Integrater System.
- Check competitive pricing from Price Probe.
- Check national and retail pricing to ensure the accuracy of information against the Marketing Integrater System and Published Promotion Schedule.
- Liaising with Retailers for approval on Guild leaflets.
- Update pricing and forward same to Buyers.
- Open a job for each press advert according to the critical path on special promotions.
- Ensure compliance or adherence to critical path for all promotions.
- Create and capture print orders with all product variants, prices and promotional dates.
- Ensure the accuracy of product variants, price and promotional dates on guild leaflets.
- Amend/edit guild leaflets layouts as per requested changes.
- Assist with any adhoc strategic Campaigns e.g. Christmas Gift Guide, etc.
- Generate PO numbers and capture invoices accordingly on the SAP System.
- Marketing Diploma / Tertiary Degree.
- Minimum of 3 years FMCG experience.
- Computer literate in MS Office – excel, word, PowerPoint essential.
- Experience in Marketing Integrator System, and SAP will be an advantage.
- Excellent time management skills, communication skills, negotiation skills and attention to detail required.
- High level of numeracy.
- Ability to cope under pressure.
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#J-18808-LjbffrAdvertising Coordinator
Posted 21 days ago
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Job category: Advertising and Communication
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
IntroductionWe are looking to recruit an Advertising Coordinator to work within our Marketing department. The role will be based at the Head Office in Cape Town.
Job Purpose:
To co-ordinate activities for above the line promotions and ensure that the related processes are maintained and followed as per the promotional calendar.
Job Objectives:
- To ensure that the promotional vehicles are created and the required page ownership and marketing instruments are assigned timeously based on agreed calendar.
- To apply the appropriate page layout, design and templates to each leaflet vehicle based on the pre-promotions planning meeting.
- To assign primary and secondary sub-department owners to each promotional offer block.
- To ensure that all promotional offers are completed timeously and consolidate all promotional pages after lock-down and send to the Studio.
- To act as a liaison between the Studio and the Merchandise team in respect of merchandise sign-off to ensure adherence to promotional processes and guidelines.
- To manage the promotional workflow and tasks to agreed timelines.
- To manage the image order process to ensure that images are sourced timeously to ensure promotions are completed based on agreed deadlines.
- To provide administrative assistance in producing minutes, agendas, and reports timeously and accurately.
- Advertising and Promotions with Marketing administrative skills
- ND. Marketing
- Marketing experience, exposure to briefings
- Financial experience, understanding of terminology regarding margins and planned sales figures
- Understanding of advertising environment
- Strong attention to detail
- Proactive
- Numeracy
- Planning and organising
- Deciding and Initiating Action
- Working with People
- Relating and Networking
- Analysing
- Delivering Results & Meeting Customer Expectations
- Adapting and Responding to Change
Advertising Executive
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About Us
BeMySocial is a vibrant UK-based creative and communications agency, delivering bold, strategy-led marketing and advertising solutions for clients across diverse industries. Rooted in collaboration, innovation, and trust, we create campaigns that make a global impact. As we expand our international reach, we're seeking a talented Advertising Executive based in South Africa to join our remote team, contributing to dynamic campaigns for clients in the UK, US, and beyond.
The Role
As an Advertising Executive at BeMySocial, you'll lead the planning, development, and execution of integrated advertising campaigns across multiple channels. Blending creativity with strategy, you'll work closely with clients and our global team to bring visionary campaigns to life. This fully remote role offers the flexibility to work from anywhere in South Africa while staying connected to our innovative UK-based team.Key Responsibilities
- Plan, manage, and execute advertising campaigns across digital, social, print, and emerging platforms, including formats like AR/VR and interactive storytelling.
- Engage with clients to define objectives, develop detailed briefs, and present compelling campaign ideas and updates.
- Collaborate with creative teams, including designers, copywriters, and video producers, to ensure campaigns align with brand standards and meet deadlines.
- Analyze campaign performance with advanced analytics tools, providing data-driven insights to optimize results and maximize ROI.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, exploring innovations like AI-driven advertising, Web3 integrations, or new social platforms to elevate campaign impact.
- Maintain organized project documentation, campaign schedules, and communication logs using modern project management tools.
What We're Looking For
- At least 2 years' experience in advertising, marketing, or communications, ideally in an agency setting.
- Strong expertise in media planning and execution across digital platforms, including Google Ads, Meta Ads (Facebook/Instagram/TikTok), programmatic advertising, and emerging channels.
- Exceptional client-facing communication skills, with confidence in leading virtual meetings, responding to briefs, and pitching creative concepts.
- Proven project management skills, capable of managing multiple campaigns and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- A creative mindset paired with a data-driven approach to deliver measurable results.
- Proficiency with tools like Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides), Slack, and project management platforms (e.g., , Asana, or ClickUp).
- Familiarity with design tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or Canva is a plus but not required.
What We Offer
- Fully remote work with flexible hours, designed to balance South Africa and UK time zones.
- A collaborative, inclusive team culture where your ideas drive innovation and shape campaigns.
- Opportunities to work on cutting-edge campaigns for diverse clients across the UK, US, and global markets.
- Access to ongoing learning, including workshops, certifications, and professional development resources.
- A people-first company passionate about creativity, collaboration, and redefining modern advertising.
How to Apply
To apply for this role, please visit:
Submit your CV and a concise cover letter highlighting your relevant experience and why you're excited to join BeMySocial. We're particularly interested in examples of past campaigns or creative contributions that showcase your impact.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: R20 000,00 per month
Work Location: Remote