Marketing Communications Manager – Financial Services job, Cape Town

Are you a senior marketing communications manager with previous experience in financial services and copywriting? We have a tremendous job opportunity for a dynamic individual with these skills in the Cape Town office of a leading financial services company. This exciting middle-to-senior executive role is very hands-on and the Marketing Communications Manager will be expected to write content. In this role, you will be a member of the Asset Management Executive Committee and contribute to overall business strategy and operational priorities. This position supervises a staff member and reports to the Chief Marketing Officer. We are looking for someone with experience in developing a quality marketing communications strategy. The ideal candidate should come from a marketing/communications background and have managed internal and external communications within a marketing department. If your experience meets these criteria, we would like to see your relevant writing portfolio. Apply today!

Responsibilities
Include, but not limited to:

• Overall responsibility for Asset Management messaging
• Produce monthly and quarterly communications with clients, plan and schedule authors and topics
• Operational communications (pricing, product, service, administration, rewards and internal) and internal staff newsletter
• Liaison with investment team on investment commentary and articles
• Management of video projects and communication projects to deliver on time
• Messaging for events
• Contribution to the institutional value proposition
• Pitch packs, due diligences, presentations and sales aids
• Public relations support for the Asset Management division
• Asset Management website content maintenance
• Approval of Asset Management ad creative and media calendar
• Contribution to strategy and messaging for group projects – examples could include reviewing forms, reviewing fund fact sheets, digital content and webinars
• Line management of a resource based within the asset management department including: quality control of deliverables including annual report, monthly fund/private label factsheets, forms and communications
• Group public relations and liaison with journalists – as required
• Wealth Advisor related projects – as needed
• Group communications support e.g. HR, Transformation Forum, general policies, regulatory submissions, crisis communications, etc. – if necessary.

Terms
The successful candidate must have/be:

• Relevant degree/diploma in marketing
• Minimum 6-8 years of experience in the financial services industry
• Previous experience in a highly beneficial PR agency environment
• Writing ability, strong communication experience and ability to write content (not just edit and proofread)
• Proficiency in spoken and written English
• Computer skills: MS Office (MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Bulk communication systems, e.g. Everlytic or SendGrid
• Project management skills
• Good knowledge of investments
• Strong Writing Skills – Plain Language or Writing/Communications or Editorial
• Analytical thinker
• Ability to exercise good judgment in accordance with overall marketing strategy
• Attention to detail and consistency
• Able to build internal and external relationships and network
• communication skills
• creative thinker
• Abundant personality and patience
• Resilience, hard worker, brand loyalty and prioritization skills
• Bilingual is advantageous
• Writing portfolio – essential
• Practical and pragmatic.

Please submit a relevant writing portfolio with your CV when applying.

If you do not receive a response within one week, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Company Description

VGP Recruitment is a recruitment agency specializing in the advertising, marketing, media, creative, digital, public relations/communications and publishing sectors.

Posted May 12 3:44 PM, Closing date Jul 11