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Job Description

An exciting opportunity exists within the Old Mutual Africa regions (OMAR) actuarial team that offers exposure to an interesting combination of technical and business issues. This is an opportunity to participate in OMAR’s growth markets – Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, and eSwatini.

Reporting to the Finance Actuary of OMAR, the role requires sound technical knowledge of Financial Reporting requirements and OMAR product range, with strong planning and delivery focus. In this role, you will lead a team of actuaries.

• Financial, Business & Risk Reporting: Effective and timeous delivery of valuation results covering IFRS profits, value measures, solvency and risk metrics for different stakeholders including: In-country management, OMAR Central, Head of Life Businesses, OML Group Actuarial reporting, OMAR Enterprise risk management, Balance Sheet Management and the Office of the Chief Actuary
• Business Planning & Forecasting: Provide actuarial modelling and other input into the segment business plan, and other strategic initiatives.
• Process efficiency and automation: Ensure processes are efficient, robust, fit for purpose and operated within an adequate and effective control environment.
• Ad-hoc projects: Support the delivery of relevant project objectives, as and when these arise.
• Business support: Use actuarial knowledge and skills to provide strategic support to the business and individual OMAR countries on various projects.
• Leading a team – manage, train and mentor an actuarial team.
  
  

• A qualified Actuary with at least 8 years’ relevant valuation experience.
• Ability to think strategically and provide business insights.
• Strong technical skills and attention to detail.
• IFRS17 implementation experience would be an advantage.
• Ability to communicate effectively to diverse technical and non-technical audiences (written and verbal).
• Experience leading a team.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with others.
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Finance and Sales

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Join to apply for the Director, RGMx Data Insights & Analytics role at The Coca-Cola Company

Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better shared future. We strive to provide cutting-edge excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing. This role serves as the lead in the organization between the category/brand teams and commercial operating teams to communicate initiatives to bottlers and customer teams. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate, relationship building and leadership capabilities while working across multiple channels

Director, Data, Insights and Analytics

Responsible for effective communication of Commercial Drivers of the Business in “What Happened?” and “Why Did It Happen?” format; will oversee a team dedicated to delivering data-driven insights and analytics solutions that enable actionable strategies for commercial success in the Africa Operating Unit (OU). This role is critical to supporting revenue growth, improving decision-making, and driving a measurable impact across markets and channels. Will be responsible for managing data infrastructure, advanced analytics, insights generation, and execution alignment with cross-functional teams, including total support of Commercial Organization.

Function Related Activities/Key Responsibilities (Top 5-8 Core Responsibilities)

• Define and implement the data and analytics strategy, ensuring alignment with broader commercial and AOU Goals
• Own the development and maintenance of data pipelines, infrastructure, and governance frameworks to ensure clean, accurate, and accessible data.
• Leverage internal and external data sources (e.g., bottler data, Nielsen, Panel, Macro) to support actionable insights with Standard Reporting.
• Translate complex analytics into clear, actionable insights and decision frameworks for commercial organization and key stakeholders
• Deliver real-time dashboards, reports, and presentations to track performance as well as Commercial Input metrics
• Develop predictive analytics models (e.g., demand forecasting, price elasticity, promo effectiveness) to enable proactive commercial strategies in markets with dynamic challenges (e.g., inflation, affordability).
• Become champions of Commercial Advanced Analytics tools such as Copilot, PvP, TPO
  
  

• Strong strategic & systematic thinking (forward-looking vision and anticipating of future needs)
• Identifies client needs and creates value; proven ability to work with high degree of autonomy once given direction.
• Strong Problem Solving & Analytical skills; ability to draw actionable insights from data; experience with sales analytics
• Solid experience in data integration tools and cloud platforms
• Thrive under pressure and maintain focus to make an effective OBPPC decision in Agile manner
• Deep understanding of commercial operations within AOU
• Hands-on experience with syndicated data (Nielsen, Kantar, IRI) and building unified dashboards for decision-making.
• Exceptional ability to turn raw data into actionable insights through advanced modeling (e.g., price elasticity, forecasting, churn analysis).
• Strong proficiency in analytical tools (Excel, Programming, AI) and visualization platforms (Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
  
  

• Minimum Required: Bachelor’s degree (engineering, finance, business, economics)
• Preferred Level: Master degree in business or associated field
  
  

• Minimum of 7+ years’ experience in sales, finance or RGM with expertise in customer planning, focused on delivery of world-class results in a complex, distributed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver upon results; ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations
• Business performance management – practical experience using data systems to track and steward frontline initiative execution
• Demonstrated experience using analytics to drive commercial results, including pricing, portfolio optimization, and execution strategies.
  
  

• Extensive experience (10 years +)
• Field and headquarter experience working closely across finance, sales & marketing, BIS, etc.
• Business operations experience with execution accountability
  
  

• Strong strategic & systematic thinking (forward-looking vision and anticipating of future needs)
• Identifies client needs and creates value; proven ability to work with high degree of autonomy once given direction.
• Strong Problem Solving & Analytical skills; ability to draw actionable insights from data; experience with sales analytics
• Effective communicate and builds relationships at senior organization levels; communicates long-term vision through clear & simple messages
• Grows diverse, high-performing teams through tough-minded talent management
  
  

• Iconic Brand: Work on the most recognized brand in the world and be part of developing the brands next chapter.
• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global marketing leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging digital platforms and marketing insights.
• Creative Team Culture: Be inspired by the best brand leaders and agencies in the world, which creates a creative culture that supports taking risks and innovation.
  
  

• Seniority level Not Applicable

• Employment type Full-time

• Industries Manufacturing, Food and Beverage Manufacturing, and Food and Beverage Services

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This is an internal hire for RocketDevs’ own growth team — not a client placement. We’re investing directly in building an in-house performance marketing engine that scales our own campaigns and future hiring pipelines.

As our Head of Advertising, you’ll own the vision, strategy, and performance of RocketDevs’ paid and digital advertising efforts across all channels — with a focus on measurable growth and sustainable ROI. You’ll work closely with the founders, growth, and creative teams to expand our reach, generate high-quality leads, and position RocketDevs as a top player in our space.

What You’ll Do

• Define and lead the overall advertising strategy across Google Ads (Search, Display, YouTube), Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram), and emerging platforms like Reddit, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
• Oversee campaign architecture — from full-funnel targeting to conversion — ensuring alignment with broader business goals.
• Direct creative development for ad campaigns: write strategic briefs, collaborate with designers, and refine messaging to maximize CTR and conversion rates.
• Analyze and interpret performance data to optimize budgets, scale winning campaigns, and eliminate waste.
• Identify and test new advertising channels, tools, and approaches to stay ahead of the curve.
• Oversee tracking infrastructure — from pixels to GA4 to Conversion API — ensuring accurate attribution and actionable data.
• Lead and mentor any future advertising team members, fostering a high-performance, results-driven culture.
• Report directly to the Head of Growth or Founder with strategic insights and forward-looking recommendations.

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• Seniority level Executive

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Marketing and Sales
• Industries Staffing and Recruiting

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Our vision is loved brands, done sustainably, for a better shared future. We strive to provide cutting-edge excellence in ingredients, innovation, design, and marketing. This role serves as the lead in the organization between the category/brand teams and commercial operating teams to communicate initiatives to bottlers and customer teams. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate, relationship building and leadership capabilities while working across multiple channels

What You’ll Do For Us

• Represents the total Trademark commercial perspective in all discussions/decisions across bottler network and communicates initiatives to bottlers and customer teams.
• Ensure representation of channel needs and proper translation of brand strategies across retail & foodservice channels.
• Partners with brand team to ensure commercial leadership organization serves as a single source of direction delivering and transformation brand strategies into actionable plans.
• Responsible for the development, implementation, and achievement of annual commercial business plan.
• Align channel input on price/pack architecture and ensure channel coherency and directs and steward’s commercial development of all new item introductions
• Lead collaboration with Revenue Growth Management functions to develop tools and tracking for sales teams to ensure maximization of revenue and gross profit.
• Support category/brand teams in determining program budget, manages the program allocations across channels/customers and re-allocates funding based on performance.
• Supports Commercial Leadership category strategic planning and performance management.
• Lead development of tools and tracking to ensure profitable growth across the portfolio.
• Partners with product/package leads in creation of brand/ package launch decks/PAGS for delivery to channel planning and sales teams for use in the market
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or another related field.
• 5-7 years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry
• Leadership and experience working across multiple channels – e.g., large store, small store, and Foodservice/On Premise channels.
• Experience in brand and category management, coordinating pricing and promotions, and customer and sales.
• Demonstrates strong business acumen through the ability to create a 1-3-year business plan for brand/category and a path to achieve that vision, anticipating future trends and needs in the marketplace and business; demonstrates innovation/creativity
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and build relationships at all organizational levels; communicates long-term vision and shorter-term opportunities through clear & simple messages.
• People leadership/management – specifically, managing virtual teams and influencing multiple stakeholders with different priorities.
• Strong track record of leadership across cross-functional teams
  
  

• Iconic Brand: Work on the most recognized brand in the world and be part of developing the brands next chapter.
• Exposure to World Class Leaders: Availability to global marketing leaders that will expand your network and exposure you to emerging digital platforms and marketing insights.
• Creative Team Culture: Be inspired by the best brand leaders and agencies in the world, which creates a creative culture that supports taking risks and innovation.
  
  

• Seniority level Not Applicable

• Employment type Full-time

• Industries Manufacturing, Food and Beverage Manufacturing, and Food and Beverage Services

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Job Description

An exciting opportunity exists within the Old Mutual Africa regions (OMAR) actuarial team that offers exposure to an interesting combination of technical and business issues. This is an opportunity to participate in OMAR’s growth markets – Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, and eSwatini.

Reporting to the Finance Actuary of OMAR, the role requires sound technical knowledge of Financial Reporting requirements and OMAR product range, with strong planning and delivery focus. In this role, you will lead a team of actuaries.

• Financial, Business & Risk Reporting: Effective and timeous delivery of valuation results covering IFRS profits, value measures, solvency and risk metrics for different stakeholders including: In-country management, OMAR Central, Head of Life Businesses, OML Group Actuarial reporting, OMAR Enterprise risk management, Balance Sheet Management and the Office of the Chief Actuary

• Business Planning & Forecasting: Provide actuarial modelling and other input into the segment business plan, and other strategic initiatives.

• Process efficiency and automation: Ensure processes are efficient, robust, fit for purpose and operated within an adequate and effective control environment.

• Ad-hoc projects: Support the delivery of relevant project objectives, as and when these arise.

• Business support: Use actuarial knowledge and skills to provide strategic support to the business and individual OMAR countries on various projects.

• Leading a team – manage, train and mentor an actuarial team.

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Requirements: Skills, Qualifications, Experience required

• A qualified Actuary with at least 8 years’ relevant valuation experience.

• Ability to think strategically and provide business insights.

• Strong technical skills and attention to detail.

• IFRS17 implementation experience would be an advantage.

• Ability to communicate effectively to diverse technical and non-technical audiences (written and verbal).

• Experience leading a team.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with others.

Skills

Competencies

Education

Closing Date

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

The Old Mutual Story!

SUMMARY :

Our client based in Randburg, Gauteng, is looking for a Group Marketing Manager to join their team.

Role overview :

This is a pivotal role designed for a strategic thinker with a solid engineering background, an in-depth understanding of the data centre and power infrastructure industries, and the commercial acumen to collaborate cross-functionally with HODs, Business Development Managers (BDMs), and R&D teams. As the marketing department enters a growth phase, this leader will be responsible for shaping a market-driven, insight-led strategy that supports relational B2B selling and positions the group for expansion into new products and markets.

POSITION INFO : RESPONSIBILITIES :

1. Collaborate closely with HODs, BDMs, and R&D to identify market gaps, inform product development, and drive go-to-market strategies.
2. Develop a group-level marketing roadmap that supports long-term growth, innovation, and market penetration in Africa and beyond (UAE and Europe expansion).
3. Shape a marketing strategy that aligns with a relationship-based B2B sales model, prioritising trust, reputation, and strategic engagement over high-volume digital lead generation.
4. Leverage strong technical understanding to communicate complex concepts clearly and effectively in all marketing outputs.
5. Stay abreast of industry trends in data centre, power, and digital infrastructure sectors to anticipate shifts and inform business strategy.
6. Participate in ideation around product evolution, partnerships, and service offerings based on grounded market intelligence.
7. Act as a bridge between the marketing team and internal stakeholders across operations, engineering, business development, and executive leadership.
8. Drive collaboration between marketing and sales teams to create high-impact tools, messaging, and campaigns that support sales conversations and long-term relationship building.
9. Refine and elevate the company's positioning as an innovative, reliable B2B partner in its sectors.
10. Ensure brand consistency across all platforms and touchpoints, allowing room for differentiation where necessary between the two brands.
11. Develop high-value, insight-rich marketing content reflecting industry knowledge and thought leadership (e.g., case studies, solution briefs, sector-specific whitepapers).
12. Oversee all communication strategies, ensuring technical accuracy and strategic alignment in messaging.
13. Lead the strategy and execution of industry-specific events, conferences, client sessions, and exhibitions.
14. Facilitate opportunities for engagement, networking, and partnership-building with key stakeholders and decision-makers.
15. Manage and grow the shared services marketing team, building internal capability and introducing strategic structure.
16. Lead the team in executing daily marketing operations, maintaining strategic oversight and high-level planning.
17. Foster a culture of curiosity, commercial thinking, and continuous improvement within the team.
18. Play an active, hands-on leadership role—supporting execution when needed despite focusing on strategy.
19. Drive the transformation of the marketing function into a structured, performance-driven business unit.
20. Set and monitor KPIs focused on brand growth, market awareness, product readiness, and stakeholder engagement, not just lead generation.
21. Report directly to group leadership on strategy execution, market feedback, and emerging opportunities.

REQUIREMENTS :

• Degree in Engineering, Marketing, or Business (or a combination).
• 5–7 years’ experience in B2B marketing, preferably in infrastructure, data centres, energy, or engineering sectors.
• Strong commercial mindset and understanding of relational B2B selling environments.
• Familiarity with African markets and infrastructure ecosystems is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to work with technical teams, interpret complex systems, and translate them into strategic narratives.
• Experience in building or significantly growing a marketing function.
• Excellent stakeholder management, leadership, and communication skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with high agility and initiative; adaptable, resourceful, and ownership-driven in a fast-paced environment.

To apply, please send your CV with salary expectations to us. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not receive feedback within 48 hours, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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The Marketing Manager will manage the marketing department and develop and implement integrated, strategically aligned marketing solutions across the company and various business units. The Marketing Manager will provide specialist marketing advice to stakeholders and is responsible for managing, coordinating, and coaching the marketing team. The Marketing Manager will report to the CEO.

Minimum Required Qualifications and Experience:

Relevant Bachelor's Degree/Diploma: BCom in Marketing/Communications, Business Science with Honors in Marketing, or similar degree.

Experience: 6 - 8 years in marketing or industry experience in a similar role. Experience in the Healthcare industry is mandatory.

Skills required:

• Ability to strategize and think creatively outside the box.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of all social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok) and Facebook Ad Manager.
• Experience with platforms such as Monday.com & Hootsuite.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Proactive and able to take initiative.
• Ability to prioritize and manage a broad range of tasks.
• Attention to detail.

Key Accountabilities:

• Overall responsibility for all marketing activities.
• Manage the brand, brand positioning, and corporate identity.
• Enhance the company's image in all interactions with stakeholders.
• Manage communication to stakeholders and customers to ensure professionalism and consistency.
• Manage the marketing budget and collaborate with Business/Product Managers.
• Approve all marketing documentation to ensure consistency with CI and marketing strategy.
• Maintain relationships with suppliers such as graphic designers, SEO & Google AdWords partners, printers, promotional companies, etc.
• Manage the company's website updates and communication of products/services.
• Oversee Google AdWords, Google Analytics, SEO, and social media platforms.
• Create leveraged marketing strategies and customer journeys for all products/services.
• Implement and review marketing systems, policies, and practices.
• Report on key business metrics.
• Stay updated on industry trends and legislation.

Management of the Marketing Team:

• Manage the marketing employees (3 people).
• Cultivate creativity and innovation, providing guidance and coaching.
• Motivate, challenge, and support the team.
• Ensure team has strong product and technical knowledge.
• Clarify roles, conduct performance reviews, and set KPIs.

Cross-Divisional Work:

• Collaborate with the Commercial Team to develop aligned marketing strategies.
• Ensure implementation of marketing campaigns and activities.
• Support the launch of new products/services with marketing strategies and materials.
• Ensure campaigns meet profit and strategic objectives, creating value for customers and shareholders.
• Monitor, measure, and report on marketing success, taking corrective actions as needed.

• The Practise Lead will drive and implement strategy, revenue generation and business growth for the Digital Advisory.
• Focus on the management and delivery of client engagements, as well as sales and practice development.
• The Practise Lead will focus on working with our leading clients and their executive teams to design and define innovative business solutions to respond to disruption, design the journey to transition from the current to the future business and establish transformation programs, products and services that drive growth and deliver long term value. You will collaborate with partners across the firm and across geographies to ensure a holistic and cross-functional, transformative approach.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

1. Sets Strategy and drives delivery excellence for technology solutions :

• Ability to lead client through end-to-end design and delivery of forward looking, holistic, and business-aligned Technology solutions.
• Owns end-to-end delivery of enterprise-level technology and Technology programs, including requirements, supporting strategies and architectures, and appropriately manages and mitigates risks across the program.
• Understanding the interlinks between the sub-offerings at a technical level in order to enhance market presence.
• Adopts a holistic view when recommending solutions, leveraging leading practices to align technology solutions with business strategy and specific industry issues.
• Anticipates risks, opportunities, and broader organizational implications of proposed recommendations, and proactively define mitigating solutions.
• Leads stakeholders in building executive-level support and organizational buy-in to help enable and sustain the proposed programs.
• Builds a brand within a chosen domain and industry and is regarded internally and externally as a subject matter expert.
• Stays current on market trends and regulations and anticipates risk / opportunities; advises client accordingly.

2. Sales and Business Development :

• Identify and engage with potential customers and business partners through direct meetings while leveraging existing relationships and building new relationships with strategic partners and individuals.
• Support analysis and targeting of sales efforts through customer segmentation and profiling.
• Grow our current client footprint by actively hunting new clients and opportunities.
• Represent BDO in various forums (e.g., conferences, symposiums, customer visits) and impart detailed information about BDO’s technology and digital capabilities;
• Lead the creation of new-business proposals and presentations that create and nurture opportunities and partnerships and showcases BDO’s value proposition.
• Preparing all documentation required for requests for proposals (RFPs).
• Use BDO and industry data to identify trends and customer needs, and to build and secure a sales pipeline focused on meeting short / medium / long term domain targets
• Developing solution strategies.
• Support marketing stakeholders in the coordination and implementation of marketing strategies.

3. Business Case Development :

• Provide input into the product vision and roadmap for Digital Advisory by aligning to BDO’s overall company strategy, commercial business unit requirements and key opportunities.
• Communicate vision and roadmap to stakeholders to ensure buy in, support and clarity on direction and execution.
• Collaborate with key business stakeholders to define requirements and establish priorities for the product team based on business objectives and strategy.
• Optimize and continuously improve the experience and the value derived from of the products, journeys and services delivered by the product team through ongoing analysis of customer feedback, user / journey analytics and innovation.

4. Product Development Oversight :

• Participate in the conceptual solution design process to make recommendations to create and enhance solutions that are innovative, scalable, and sustainable and solve complex business problems.
• Participate in User Acceptance testing and guide users to ensure that the designed solution ultimately meets business requirements.
• Participate in the success / acceptance criteria definition using scenario testing and test cases to ensure that testing covers all aspects of the business specification.
• Validate the functionality of all technical solutions in line with business requirements on completion of development to ensure that business requirements are met in the implemented solutions.

5. Stakeholder Management :

• Manage relationships with external clients and ensure we grow successful relationships that yield profitable accounts.
• Be an active member of the BDO digital and technology sounding board, contribute digital transformation ideas that are scalable to be deployed to the existing BDO client base and the rest of Africa.
• Report to BDO Advisory leadership monthly on the Digital Advisory team’s performance, status of projects and innovation.
• Engage with audit teams and gather and interpret any requirements that they may have based on a pain points experienced on their audits that can be digitized.
• Provide insights on any new technologies that may launch via communication with teams directly or through Marketing channels.
• Act as a liaison between key stakeholders such as audit technical and the quality enablement team to ensure that digital and technology solutions that are being developed makes business sense and will either save our teams time.

6. Budget Management :

• Prepare forecasts and budget for the Digital Advisory business unit.
• Manage and optimize the budget, ensuring all expenditure is in line with the agreed budgets for the Digital Advisory business.
• Manage own client account / s within approved budget and profitability targets.
• Guide and assist other managers on how to manage their client accounts with regards to approved budget.