Job Description

Designation:

Marketing Manager

Category:

MultiChoice South Africa

Level:

Management

Closing date:

24-Apr-2025

Position Type:

Permanent

Location:

MultiChoice City

:

The Organisation

Th

e MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We're proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across more than 50 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment.



By joining our passionate and creative team, you can help us achieve our objectives of expanding our pay-TV and SVOD (Subscription Video On demand) subscriber bases, improving advertising sales, spearheading cutting-edge technology, supporting local content and providing an exceptional customer experience.



Join Africa's most loved storyteller!

Key Customers

Key Internal Contacts

?MCSA Marketing (Creative Studio, PR and comms, Social Media, Operations, Media) ?Commercial (Sales, CVM, Operations, Performance Marketing) ?General Entertainment (GE) Marketing ?SuperSport Marketing ?Centre of insights and information (CII) ?Finance ?DMS

Key External Contacts

?Creative agencies ?Research Agencies ?Advertising Agencies ?Media Agencies

Location

South Africa, Johannesburg, Randburg

Purpose of the Position:

Executing go-to-market plans, supporting positioning work, and ensuring that campaigns for DStv's products (like Showmax, DStv Stream, DStv Internet, DStv Insurance, etc.) are well planned, launched, and measured.

Key Performance Objectives

Tasks

Operational delivery

Assist in planning and rolling out GTM campaigns for MCSA marketing. Coordinate campaign timelines, deliverables, and channel integration in collaboration with SuperSport, GE, media and all commercial teams. Ensure consistent messaging across all marketing touchpoints. Serve as the day-to-day marketing liaison between product teams, customer value management, digital, and content teams (SS and GE). Ensure all stakeholders are aligned on campaign objectives, deliverables, timelines and metrics. Work closely with internal creative studio and external agencies to brief and review campaign concepts and assets. Coordinate the development of marketing collateral, digital assets, retail materials and social assets in line with product strategy. Assist in reviewing copy and creative for product and marketing accuracy, relevance and tone alignment.

Reporting and tracking

Use data and reporting frameworks to measure performance, derive insights and continuously improve campaign effectiveness. Collate campaign data and customer feedback to derive insights and learnings. Prepare post-campaign analysis and contribute to optimising future product marketing initiatives.

People Management

Oversee the activities of the team to ensure effective delivery of business outcomes. Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance management processes. Determine and analyse development needs for the team and ensure that identified training requirements are budgeted for and executed. Interview and recruit new members of the team, including determining appropriate compensation levels with input from Human Capital. Create effective workforce and recruitment demand plans to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met. When required, initiate disciplinary processes for team members calling on support from Human Capital when required. Resolve grievances raised by team members and escalate only if required. Address poor performance of any team member through the formal Performance improvement programme and ensure that continued poor performance is appropriately dealt with. Motivate team members and ensure that their efforts are recognised.

Qualifications Essential:

Post grad qualification or equivalent NQF Level 8 Qualifications in Marketing/Business Management or similar

Qualification Preferred:

Qualification in marketing field advantageous

Experience

A minimum of 8 years of marketing experience 5+ years of management experience

Technical Competencies

Customer Centricity Developing value propositions Brand Management Reporting and Research Project Management Financial Management/Budgeting Marketing Management Regulatory and Legal Compliance Media Management Vendor Management

Behavioural Competencies

Strategic thinking Networking Risk Management Negotiation Skills * Future Oriented