Marketing Portfolio Manager

Job title : Marketing Portfolio ManagerJob Location : Gauteng, JohannesburgDeadline : January 10, 2025Quick Recommended Links Jobs by Location Job by industries Job Description Hello Future Marketing Portfolio Manager  FNB Retail Marketing is looking for a dynamic and highly driven Marketing Portfolio Manager to join their team.
The successful applicant will be required to provide strategic partnership to multiple marketing leads by assessing business needs, offering marketing solutions, advising and directing the input into the development of relevant marketing programmes or strategic initiatives in line with the business strategic direction through the marketing value chain (consulting, programme leadership, strategic solutioning, development, execution and reporting and measurement). Are you someone who can:  Develop and ensure execution of integrated financial strategies to maximize growth across business areas. Develop integrated frameworks, guidelines and optimization plans to drive profitability and economic value add. Design and co-create long term resource optimization programmes that enable the availability of capital expenditure cash flow for the area of responsibility. Ensure financial strategies and processes are consistent with the objectives of the Group. Create professional forums where financial health can be tracked and analyzed at board level. Balance immediate value against long term sustainability and local and global considerations. Influence and align strategic intent and delivery to add value for customers and shareholders.
Apply a customer-centric approach that focuses on creating a positive experience for the customer by maximizing service and/or product offerings and building relationships Ensure that the customer is at the center of the business philosophy, operations and ideas. Engage with relevant leaders to collaterally and proactively manage the requirements of relevant function or business. Actively seek and contribute to diverse opinions. Drive strategic relationships to collaterally make sense of the ambiguity and uncertainty inherent to the organization. Create alignment, collaboration and synergy between the various specialist areas to provide a comprehensive business solution to customers. Reshape customer experience journeys to increase self-service and assisted service and employ strategies to maximize customer satisfaction. Balance interests of a variety of clients, readily readjusting priorities to respond to pressing and changing client demands. Establish best practices in respect of optimizing client service through the full operations value chain, within the appropriate risk appetite and automation vision of the organization. Drive an integrated service excellence culture, which enables rewarding relationships and customer feedback in promotion of exceptional service.
Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and FirstRand internal compliance procedures and requirements. Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by Group. Design and implement a control framework to ensure the integrity of operations and practices. Anticipate and apply and policies/procedures to manage and control both financial and non-financial risks. Ensure compliance with audit requirements. Investigate and implement measures to correct audit findings. Align, integrate and innovate area of accountability to enable the creation of integrated and specialized solutions and create a sustainable competitive advantage for Business. Execute relevant business initiatives aligned to strategic objectives with specific performance measures and control systems to track progress. Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organizational knowledge improvement. Maintain a broad knowledge of current and emerging conditions affecting industry and/or business through forecasting and analysis across FirstRand. Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provide of advice to relevant stakeholders. Maintain up to date knowledge of local and global trends. Provide thought leadership and expertise. Ensure that sales strategies are aligned across customer value proposition. Actively pursue opportunities that may increase revenue. Design and develop business metrics to ensure sales is measured against financial goals agreed to for the operational areas. Ensure regular audits and surveys are done to measure and track business performance against financial goals.
Manage performance of teams in areas of responsibility against expected delivery targets. Ensure alignment of team and individual performance objectives to relevant business area objectives. Drive and monitor corrective actions to ensure maximization of team performance. Drive performance management processes within agreed timelines. Drive Talent Management practices in area of accountability. Build management team succession plans for critical roles in own area and influence strategic resource planning of partners. Provide direction, regular feedback and coaching to direct reports to improve performance. Ensure implement employment equity plan target achievement in all recruitment and employee movement activities. Identify current and future human capital needs and skills requirements. Influence the alignment and adoption of different priorities in people management strategies as articulated through the strategic people levers. Build a culture of recognition and fairness across business aligned to HR policies. Establish an enabling climate and culture to energize employees, give meaning to work, minimize work disruption and maximize employee productivity. Establish people-focused management strategies. Influence the development and enablement of a culture and climate where the organizational values are demonstrated and lived. Influence the understanding and adoption of the organizational strategic direction across all levels of the organization and its stakeholders. Define and create a long-term human capability strategic framework to enable sustainable business performance. Create a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared. Collaborate with various stakeholders to co-create solutions and share information within and across teams for development and improvement. You will be an ideal candidate if you have:  BCom Degree or similar qualification 7+ years in a similar role You will have access to:  Opportunities to network and collaborate Challenging work environment Opportunities to innovate We can be a match if you are:   Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to. Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it. Adaptable, curious and willing to learn. Passionate in providing insights. Thrive in a collaborative environment. Sales / Retail / Business Development  jobs