36 Brand Manager jobs in Durban

The brand champion and expert while ensuring brand integrity in all respects. Plans, implements, and executes successful consumer and trade marketing programs (including brand strategic planning, market positioning, pricing, promotion, advertising). Contributes to annual brand planning process and brand planning calendar, coordinates cross-functional activities and planning processes, manages timelines, and ensures timely completion of all deliverables.

Experience
• Must have experience with South African retailers and contacts within the industry.
• Footwear or apparel background is paramount.
• Brand Management experience is a must.
• Financial acumen
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel/Power Point/Word
• 10+ years’ experience, Management, Exec
• Key initiative planning and execution.
• Consumer communication strategy, planning and execution.
• Consumer insights
• Manufacturing Experience + 5 years

Duties and Responsibilities

Reporting:

Securing monthly retail sales reports from customers
Produce and distribute accurate monthly management reports to agreed time scales.
Produce detailed quarterly cash flow forecasts to form the basis for the working capital request
Produce financial reports detailing actual expenditure against forecast to agreed timescales.

Sales:

Leads the development of sales strategies and objectives for building and executing year-round brand engagement through partnerships, social media, fan conventions, and other vehicles.
Utilizes category and consumer insights to identify growth opportunities and drive innovation in product development as well as marketing initiatives.
Securing new business to drive the brand forward.
Collaborates with sales team for specific strategies for clients.
Securing sales forecast timely from customers.

Budget and control:

Manage working capital requirements.
Accountable for budget, forecasts and to secure good cost management within own responsibility area.

Staff Management/ Leadership:

Ensure that staff members are motivated by providing leadership & direction.
Conduct performance reviews with staff twice a year.
Undertake personal development/career action plans for incumbents reporting to you.

Customer Engagement:

Quarterly meetings with retailers and independent distributors.
Monthly engagement to secure sales

New Product Development:

Overseeing and investigating new product ranges to drink the business forward.

Qualifications
• Grade 12 
• Senior or Bachelor’s degree in Commercial or related field

Cleanipedia South Africa is a trusted digital platform dedicated to making cleaning simple, effective, and even enjoyable for South African households. Since its launch in 2018, it has published over 400 articles, helping millions of users tackle everyday cleaning challenges with confidence.

Whether you're dealing with stubborn stains, pet messes, or organizing your home, Cleanipedia offers practical, expert-backed advice tailored to local needs. From deep-cleaning your kitchen to removing red wine from your favorite shirt, the brand delivers easy-to-follow guides, hacks, and tips that empower users to clean smarter—not harder. What once started as a website with long blog format content has now evolved to exciting bite size social content. We are on a mission to become the biggest cleaning platform in Africa across our social media platforms. With currently 200k followers on Tiktok alone We provide Unilever Homecare brands amplification through our easy cleaning info and hack with some of SA's favourite cleanfluencers

IF YOU ARE READY TO CHANGE THE GAME OF CLEANTOK THEN THIS IS FOR YOU

Purpose of the Role

To support the Digital, PR & Social Influence Manager in executing and optimizing Cleanipedia South Africa's digital brand strategy. This role focuses on enhancing brand visibility, engagement, and performance across social platforms while maintaining consistency with global brand guidelines. In addition to growing and nurturing our online community.

Key Responsibilities

1. Digital Content & Campaign Execution

2. Assist in planning and executing social marketing campaigns

3. Coordinate content creation for Cleanipedia's social channels, ensuring relevance to South African audiences.

4. Collaborate with content creators, copywriters, designers, and agencies to deliver engaging, localized content.

5. Social Media Management

6. Social campaign management and reporting of platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) with digital agency.

7. Managing our online community called Shine – consistently looking for up and coming content creators, managing and creating briefs from internal brand teams in order to ensure Cleanipedia and homecare brand visibility throughout the year.

8. Track performance metrics and suggest improvements based on engagement data.

9. Analytics & Reporting

10. Monitor KPIs such as traffic, engagement, conversion rates, cost per engagement and view through rates.

11. Prepare monthly performance reports and insights to inform strategy.

12. Use tools like Google Analytics, Meta Business Suite/Tiktok Creative Centre, and Meltwater to identify trends and opportunities.

13. Brand Consistency & Localization

14. Ensure all digital assets align with Cleanipedia's global brand identity while being culturally relevant to South Africa.

15. Work with digital agency to translate global strategy to more localized approach for content execution and campaigns.

16. Project Coordination

17. Assist in managing timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder communications for digital projects.

18. Liaise with internal teams (e.g., marketing, legal, product) and external partners (e.g., agencies, influencers).

19. Innovation & Trendspotting

20. Stay updated on digital trends, consumer behavior, and competitor activity in the South African market.

21. Propose new ideas for content formats, platforms, and engagement strategies.
22. Use of tools – Meltwater and Sprinklr use beneficial.

Skills & Qualifications

• Degree in Digital Marketing or related field.
• 1–3 years experience in digital marketing or brand management.
• Strong understanding of South African digital landscape, consumer culture and content creators.
• Proficiency in tools like Meltwater, Sprinklrr, Traackr, Tiktok creative centre, Google analytics are beneficial.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and multitasking skills.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their 'Whole Self' to work and this includes you Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

At RCL FOODS, we are driven by a purpose that goes beyond business. Our commitment to "We grow what matters" reflects our dedication to nourishing lives, communities, and the future. As a leading player in the Food Manufacturing industry, we pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products and making a positive impact.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for a confident, curious, and energetic Assistant Brand Manager to join our Marketing Team, working on the Pet Category. The role will be based in Westville and report to the Brand Manager.

The ABM will support the Brand Manager to drive growth of the brand within the Pet category through execution of the annual brand plan activity that has a consumer centric approach to communication and innovation for the brand.

Brand Communication Support:

• Provide support to the Brand Manager in his/her role.
• Contribute to the development and execution of the annual brand strategy.
• Play a key role in brand guardianship – ensuring all communications and materials adhere to brand guidelines
• Execute and project manage agreed activities emanating from the marketing strategy and brand plans across a range of channels.
• Conduct brand audits and competitor reviews for annual brand planning process
• Develop agency briefs and manage some interaction with agencies and partners, including RCL FOODS internal in-house Studio
• Assist in the identification and development of brand building ideas.
• Support the management of digital content creation and social media content
• Closely monitor and analyse sales volumes, market share trends and competitive activity.
• Budget management and monthly tracking
• Campaign reporting and optimisation and share and present learnings with broader marketing team when appropriate

Brand Innovation Support:

• The marketing strategy and brand plans across a range of channels.
• Project management and leadership of small and medium innovation projects (quantified by the business as bronze, silver)
• Co-project lead big innovation projects (Gold and platinum)
• Work closely with project management team of specialists on BOSCARDS and Gate document process

Stakeholder Management:

• Work closely with Customer & Customer Marketing team on execution of in-store initiatives and promotions
• Work closely with CMI team to leverage consumer insights to support execution of marketing plans
• 3rd party agencies and in house studio

Administration:

• Administer and manage budget, raising POs, invoices
• Manage NPD gate documents and process
• Maintain and safeguard records, reports and NPD files.

KPI's:

• Efficacy of support to the Brand Manager
• Performance against standards and targets

Information Analysis, Management and Reporting:

• Build trade insights through regular trade visits and interaction with Customer team
• Build relationships with agency partners and assist with day-to -day management of account and campaigns

Minimum Requirements:

• Marketing Related degree or diploma
• 1-3 years relevant experience in a similar role and environment
• Ideally with some FMCG experience

Key Skills:

• Strong digital marketing expertise.
• Strong people management skills – to enable strong collaboration with internal and external functions
• Strong administration skills and Microsoft skills (Excel, PPT etc)
• Good ability to communicate across the business and across levels of authority
• Pro-active work ethic and growth mind-set

At RCL FOODS, we are driven by a purpose that goes beyond business. Our commitment to "We grow what matters" reflects our dedication to nourishing lives, communities, and the future. As a leading player in the Food Manufacturing industry, we pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products and making a positive impact.

As we continue to grow, we are looking for a confident, innovative, and energetic Assistant Brand Manager to join our Marketing Team on a Fixed Term Contact. The role will be based in Westville and report to the Brand Manager.

The ABM will support the Brand Manager to drive growth of the brand within the Pet category through execution of the annual brand plan activity that has a consumer centric approach to communication and innovation for the brand.

Brand Communication Support:

• Provide support to the Brand Manager in his/her role.
• Contribute to the development and execution of the annual brand strategy.
• Play a key role in brand guardianship – ensuring all communications and materials adhere to brand guidelines
• Execute and project manage agreed activities emanating from the marketing strategy and brand plans across a range of channels.
• Conduct brand audits and competitor reviews for annual brand planning process
• Develop agency briefs and manage some interaction with agencies and partners, including RCL FOODS internal in-house Studio
• Assist in the identification and development of brand building ideas.
• Support the management of digital content creation and social media content
• Closely monitor and analyse sales volumes, market share trends and competitive activity.
• Budget management and monthly tracking
• Campaign reporting and optimisation and share and present learnings with broader marketing team when appropriate
• Ensure effective communication and implementation of the new brand proposition across all customer and operational touchpoints, including comprehensive updates to online and in-store branding assets.
• Support in project and event management/coordination, with the ability to drive initiatives from concept to execution.
• Strong understanding of the artwork sign-off and total packaging process, ensuring brand consistency and quality control.

Brand Innovation Support:

• The marketing strategy and brand plans across a range of channels.
• Project management and leadership of small and medium innovation projects (quantified by the business as bronze, silver)
• Co-project lead big innovation projects (Gold and platinum)
• Work closely with project management team of specialists on BOSCARDS and Gate document process

Stakeholder Management:

• Work closely with Customer & Customer Marketing team on execution of in-store initiatives and promotions
• Work closely with CMI team to leverage consumer insights to support execution of marketing plans
• 3rd party agencies and in house studio

Administration:

• Administer and manage budget, raising POs, invoices
• Manage NPD gate documents and process
• Maintain and safeguard records, reports and NPD files.

KPI's:

• Efficacy of support to the Brand Manager
• Performance against standards and targets

Information Analysis, Management and Reporting:

• Build trade insights through regular trade visits and interaction with Customer team
• Build relationships with agency partners and assist with day-to -day management of account and campaigns

• Marketing Related degree or diploma
• 1-3 years relevant experience in a similar role and environment
• Ideally with some FMCG experience

Key Skills:

• Strong digital marketing expertise.
• Strong people management skills – to enable strong collaboration with internal and external functions
• Strong administration skills and Microsoft skills (Excel, PPT etc)
• Good ability to communicate across the business and across levels of authority
• Independent problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to overcoming challenges.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a keen eye for creative design

Overview

Cleanipedia South Africa is a trusted digital platform dedicated to making cleaning simple, effective, and even enjoyable for South African households. Since its launch in 2018, it has published over 400 articles, helping millions of users tackle everyday cleaning challenges with confidence. Whether you're dealing with stubborn stains, pet messes, or organizing your home, Cleanipedia offers practical, expert-backed advice tailored to local needs. From deep-cleaning your kitchen to removing red wine from your favorite shirt, the brand delivers easy-to-follow guides, hacks, and tips that empower users to clean smarter—not harder. What once started as a website with long blog format content has now evolved to exciting bite size social content. We are on a mission to become the biggest cleaning platform in Africa across our social media platforms. With currently 200k followers on Tiktok alone! We provide Unilever Homecare brands amplification through our easy cleaning info and hack with some of SA’s favourite cleanfluencers!

IF YOU ARE READY TO CHANGE THE GAME OF CLEANTOK THEN THIS IS FOR YOU!

To support the Digital, PR & Social Influence Manager in executing and optimizing Cleanipedia South Africa’s digital brand strategy. This role focuses on enhancing brand visibility, engagement, and performance across social platforms while maintaining consistency with global brand guidelines. In addition to growing and nurturing our online community.

1. Digital Content & Campaign Execution — Assist in planning and executing social marketing campaigns; coordinate content creation for Cleanipedia’s social channels, ensuring relevance to South African audiences; collaborate with content creators, copywriters, designers, and agencies to deliver engaging, localized content.
2. Social Media Management — Social campaign management and reporting of platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) with digital agency; managing our online community called Shine, consistently looking for up and coming content creators, creating briefs from internal brand teams to ensure Cleanipedia and homecare brand visibility throughout the year; track performance metrics and suggest improvements based on engagement data.
3. Analytics & Reporting — Monitor KPIs such as traffic, engagement, conversion rates, cost per engagement and view-through rates; prepare monthly performance reports and insights to inform strategy; use tools like Google Analytics, Meta Business Suite/Tiktok Creative Centre, and Meltwater to identify trends and opportunities.
4. Brand Consistency & Localization — Ensure all digital assets align with Cleanipedia’s global brand identity while being culturally relevant to South Africa; work with digital agency to translate global strategy to more localized approach for content execution and campaigns.
5. Project Coordination — Assist in managing timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder communications for digital projects; liaise with internal teams (e.g., marketing, legal, product) and external partners (e.g., agencies, influencers).
6. Innovation & Trendspotting — Stay updated on digital trends, consumer behavior, and competitor activity in the South African market; propose new ideas for content formats, platforms, and engagement strategies; use of tools – Meltwater and Sprinklr use beneficial.

• Degree in Digital Marketing or related field.
• 1–3 years experience in digital marketing or brand management.
• Strong understanding of South African digital landscape, consumer culture and content creators.
• Proficiency in tools like Meltwater, Sprinklrr, Traackr, TikTok creative centre, Google analytics are beneficial.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and multitasking skills.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.