Work-Force
Listing live now. Role: Marketing Executive. Location: Kathu, Northern Cape. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.
The Role
This Marketing Executive role sits within the marketing jobs function in Kathu. It offers a defined scope, clear measures of success, and the support of an experienced team across Northern Cape.
Expect a structured first ninety days, with onboarding milestones, regular check-ins, and an early focus on getting comfortable with the systems and processes that underpin the Kathu team.
Reasonable working hours and respectful planning are part of how the role runs. The team values strong delivery, and load is balanced fairly across the marketing jobs group in Kathu.
What Your Day Looks Like
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.
The Kathu 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.
No two days look exactly the same — and that variety is part of what keeps the role engaging for the right candidate in Kathu.
Diversity and Inclusion
Importantly, the organisation is committed to transformation and equal opportunity. Hiring is on merit, and applications are actively encouraged from women, youth, people with disabilities and other historically disadvantaged groups in line with the Employment Equity plan and B-BBEE objectives.
Inclusive hiring extends through onboarding and into how teams operate every day. Respectful, fair conduct is expected from every team member in Kathu.
Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Northern Cape.
Your Workplace
Crucially, 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.
Health, safety and well-being are taken seriously. Current policies and procedures are maintained, and the Kathu site adheres to the standards expected of a responsible South African employer.
Practically speaking, 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.
Core Functions
- Manage paid media budgets across Google, Meta and LinkedIn
- Conduct market research and competitor analysis to inform positioning
- Test, learn and iterate on creative, channels and audience targeting
- Plan and execute integrated marketing campaigns across digital and traditional channels
- Maintain the editorial and content calendar across owned channels
Who We’re Looking For
- Awareness of POPIA and consumer protection requirements
- Ability to work cross-functionally with sales, design and product teams
- Creative thinker who can also analyse data and report on ROI
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Marketing, Communications or related field
- Comfortable creating short-form video and social media content
- Strong copywriting skills with a portfolio of published work
- Strong project management and organisational skills
Each application is reviewed carefully, and strong matches against the criteria above will move forward in the process.