Junior Brand Manager

Reporting: Brand Manager

Location: Westlake

Cape Herb & Spice has grown from entrepreneurial roots into a global FMCG player, employing over 700 people and operating across 5 sites in Cape Town. Centred around innovation and quality, Cape Herb and Spice gives any candidate a great opportunity to gain extensive local and international experience.

Job Objective Are you passionate about food, flavour trends and quality? Do you get excited about packaging, design and brand-building? This role encompasses all of this approached from a global business perspective. It is ideal for a candidate that enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and possesses strong administration and organisational skills.

Cape Herb & Spice is looking for a proactive and organized Junior Brand Manager to join our marketing team. This is a chance to work with a creative, dynamic team and support the marketing plans of the spice, tea and gifting brands while gaining hands-on experience in a dynamic marketing environment. This position reports to the Brand Manager, and is currently based in Westlake, Cape Town but will be moving to Montagu Park mid-2027.

Key Functional Areas

• Social Media Content and Community Management
• Support of primary brand plan execution and full management of secondary brands
• Co-ordination of international tradeshows planning
• Internal marketing events & communication

Roles & Responsibilities Social Media Content and Community Management

• Manage various social media platforms and respond to customer enquiries effectively and efficiently with the support of the greater team.
• Liaison between parties to drive execution of monthly plan including brand and influencer collaborations.
• Manage all brand websites and various recipe uploads across the various brands – Cape Herb & Spice, Natural Herbs & Spices, T&Me and Eat Art.

Support of primary brand plan execution and full management of secondary brands

• Assist in execution of Brand & Communication plan for Cape Herb & Spice to highest standard.
• Execute Brand & Communication plan for secondary brands (eat.art and Natural Herbs & Spices)
• Project manage various marketing activities and launches, ensuring work is delivered on time and within budget.
• Build strong relationships with external partners and stakeholders including media, design, digital and PR
• Manage POS material including development & ordering
• Manage the PR stock. Arrange samples, promotional products, regular influencer hampers and gift packs.
• Co-ordinate charity and sponsorship requests
• Provide marketing support to local and overseas brand partners an manage resources.
• Assist the team with various daily admin tasks and projects as needed
• Perform market and pricing surveys
• Calculate Return on Investment for in-store promotions

Co-ordination of International tradeshow planning

• Assist with the development of marketing material for trade shows and sales support using various applications eg. Canva, Powerpoint and/or Photoshop
• Assist with the planning process related to tradeshow attendance from ordering furniture, co-ordinating samples and information flow ensuring accurate and clear communication between all parties to execute at the highest standard on time.

Internal marketing events & communication

• Manage the compilation of the internal Monthly newsletter (using Mailchimp)
• Work with HR to plan and execute company events and activities
• Represent the brand internally - building passion, belief and pride
• Assist with any admin support for the Leadership team as needed.

Education And Required Skills

• BComm. Marketing degree
• Minimum 3 years marketing and admin experience, brand experience advantageous
• Proficient in MS Office especially PowerPoint and Excel
• Experience in creating content on Canva. Photoshop advantageous
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills at all levels, both written and verbal
• Critical thinking
• Commercial acumen and numeracy skills
• Strong eye for detail
• Driver’s license essential
• Cooking ability will be advantageous

Personal Characteristics

• A passion for food, flavour trends and quality.
• Commercially minded
• Analytical thinker
• Customer service orientated
• Self-starter, adaptable with a growth mindset
• Proactive, team orientated and a positive, can-do attitude.
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Calm and able to perform in a high pressure, fast paced environment
• Good communication and facilitation skills with the ability to work and collaborate with others to achieve objectives

If you have not received a response within two weeks of application submission, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.

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