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Bring your skills as a Email Marketing Specialist to Sasolburg and join a team that moves fast. This Free State role is one to watch.
About the Opportunity
The Email Marketing Specialist vacancy forms part of how the Sasolburg branch keeps performing. It pairs day-to-day delivery with longer-running priorities that keep the marketing jobs side of the business moving forward.
Practically speaking, the organisation keeps reporting lines clean and expectations realistic. Performance is measured against a small, agreed set of metrics, and there are no surprise yardsticks for the Email Marketing Specialist taking on this position.
Stakeholders for this position include line managers, peers across the marketing jobs team and trusted external partners. Building those relationships early makes the next twelve months in Sasolburg much easier.
A Typical Day
You usually start by scanning campaign dashboards over coffee, checking performance against targets and flagging anything that needs attention. Mornings are often given to creative work — briefing designers, refining copy, planning the next content drop — while afternoons mix stakeholder meetings, agency calls and a steady stream of approvals. In between, you’re watching what competitors are doing, listening to what customers are saying online, and shaping the next set of experiments to push the brand forward.
Importantly, the rhythm rewards people who plan ahead but also pivot quickly when Free State operations throw up the unexpected.
Crucially, the Sasolburg office buzzes through peak hours and settles into focused, productive lulls in between, giving you time to plan and reset before the next stretch of work.
The Environment
Notably, the environment is creative, deadline-driven and data-aware. Cross-functional work with sales, product and design is the norm, and ideas are tested with real audiences quickly.
Equally, the working environment is set up to give the team the focus needed for deeper work, while keeping collaboration and quick problem-solving close at hand.
Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Sasolburg site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.
Key Responsibilities
- Support sales teams with collateral, presentations and trade activations
- Test, learn and iterate on creative, channels and audience targeting
- Optimise organic search performance through on-page and technical SEO
- Plan and execute integrated marketing campaigns across digital and traditional channels
- Brief and manage external creative, media and PR agencies
- Track campaign performance against KPIs and produce monthly reports
Who We’re Looking For
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English
- Ability to work cross-functionally with sales, design and product teams
- Working knowledge of CMS platforms (WordPress preferred)
- Comfortable creating short-form video and social media content
- Strong copywriting skills with a portfolio of published work
Potential is considered alongside experience, so candidates who tick most of these boxes should still be considered.