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Southey Personnel

Head of Marketing (Retail)

Southey Personnel

  • R Undisclosed
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Cape Town
  • Posted 08 Oct 2025 by Southey Personnel
  • Expires in 32 days
  • Job 2624296
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About the position

Purpose of the Role

The Head of Marketing will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive marketing strategy that elevates the brand, drives sales, and deepens customer loyalty. This senior leadership role requires a balance of strategic thinking, creative direction, commercial acumen, and strong leadership capabilities to lead a high-performing marketing team and collaborate cross-functionally across the business.

Key Responsibilities

Brand Strategy & Leadership

  • Define and lead the brand strategy to ensure consistent, premium positioning across all touchpoints
  • Maintain and evolve the brand identity in line with business goals and customer expectations
  • Ensure cohesive messaging and visual storytelling across all campaigns, platforms, and regions
Integrated Marketing Planning

  • Develop and execute annual and quarterly marketing plans to support retail, e-commerce, and wholesale objectives
  • Oversee all channels including digital, social media, PR, in-store, email, print, and influencer campaigns
  • Align marketing efforts with product launches, seasonal campaigns, and promotional calendars
Digital & E-commerce Marketing

  • Lead digital growth strategies, including performance marketing, SEO, SEM, paid media, and content marketing
  • Collaborate with the e-commerce team to increase online traffic, conversions, and customer retention
  • Analyse digital KPIs and optimise ROI on digital spend
Customer Engagement & CRM

  • Develop and optimise customer loyalty, CRM, and retention strategies
  • Leverage data and insights to personalise communication and deepen customer relationships
  • Oversee market research and consumer insights to guide marketing decisions
PR, Media & Partnerships

  • Build and manage PR strategies, media relationships, and brand partnerships
  • Oversee influencer and brand ambassador collaborations that align with brand values and objectives
  • Represent the brand at media events, trade shows, and public-facing opportunities
Team Leadership & Budget Management

  • Lead and mentor the marketing team across creative, digital, content, and communications functions
  • Manage and allocate the marketing budget efficiently to deliver measurable results
  • Work closely with internal departments (sales, product development, e-commerce, retail) to ensure marketing alignment across the business
Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Brand Management, Communications, or related field (Honours/MBA advantageous)
  • Minimum 8–10 years of marketing experience, with at least 5 years in a senior marketing leadership role
  • Proven track record of building and growing premium or lifestyle brands
  • Strong understanding of integrated marketing (digital, traditional, experiential, retail)
  • Experience in retail and e-commerce environments is essential
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and strategic planning skills
  • Highly creative with a strong eye for visual identity and design-led storytelling
  • Data-driven, analytical mindset with experience managing budgets and ROI
  • Passion for design, lifestyle, art, or luxury consumer brands is highly desirable

Desired Skills:

  • Development
  • Market Research
  • Marketing
  • Retail

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Southey Personnel

About the agency

The Southey Group is proud to announce Southey Personnel Services (Pty) Ltd. SPS is a newly formed independent division supplying personnel recruitment services to varying industry verticals throughout Africa. SPS has an agile, committed and experienced team that excels in sourcing and providing effective recruitment solutions in the following sectors: Manufacturing, Engineering, Civils, Renewable Energy, Mining, Marine and Oil & Gas. We offer services for temporary and permanent placements. Whether your needs are project based or long-term, we are able to supply you with suitable, world-class candidates. With the use of our extensive databases based on a global resource pool we ensure only suitable and qualified candidates are proposed, while reducing the intensive exercise of sourcing the candidates in-house. As an international executive search organisation, we connect professionals to strategic positions with a laser focus on the industries we service. Executive search means contemporary professional knowledge, active intelligent recruitment and selection skills in line with the perceptions of senior professionals. That means you get better people, in role and adding value – at speed. Our team has set up and provided full support functions to clients in various regions including on the ground crew coordination, meet and-greets, facilitation of training and local content up-skilling, accommodation solutions, travel and visa arrangements, running contract administration, hiring and firing and full payroll functions.

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