Job Description

1. Prepare & plan advertising and promotional activities and material and its budgets; submit estimates for campaign costs;
2. Confer with management regarding contracts, selection of advertising media or products to be advertised and work closely with commercial department, the management and advertising agencies;
3. Gather and organize information to plan advertising campaigns;
4. Prepare and negotiate advertising contracts;
5. Inspect layouts and advertising copy and edit scripts, audio and video tapes and other promotional materials for adherence to specifications;
6. Work with media to disseminate the advertisement;
7. Monitor and analyze sales promotions results to determine cost effectiveness of promotion campaigns;
8. Train, direct, recruit people/promoters engaged in developing and producing advertisements.

Required Skills or Experience

• Work experience in a similar role for at least 2 years ;
• Strong leadership and negotiating skills plus excellent command of English;
• Previous work with Game or Shoprite is an advantage;
• Higher education (preferably advertising, marketing or PR);
• Strong knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Knowledge of key media and advertising companies;
• Previous experience of work with newspapers is an advantage;
• Experience in arranging regular promo activities;
• Ability to demonstrate examples of own creative work on promo and advertising campaigns;
• Knowledge of general principals of advertising design;
• Result orientated approach to work.