Junior Marketing Account Manager

The Social Construct; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 112,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

The Social Construct in Century City, Cape Town, is seeking a Junior Marketing Account Manager who will grow into owning client relationships. This role welcomes your personality first, with marketing skills developing over time.

Join client calls, translate requests into briefs for our social media team, coordinate content and timelines, and keep clients informed on progress. Hybrid work setup in Cape Town.

Qualifications

• You have started your marketing journey through freelancing, side projects, internships, or studies.
• Clear, fluent English communication both spoken and written.
• Excellent people skills and ability to build rapport quickly.
• Willingness to learn and grow into client-facing account management.

Responsibilities

• Join client calls, take useful notes, and follow up on agreed actions.
• Turn client requests into clear briefs for our social media managers, designers, and video editors.
• Coordinate content, feedback, approvals, and deadlines so work lands on time and to standard.
• Keep clients updated so they always know what's happening and what's needed from them.
• Learn the practical side of social media marketing, content planning, and reporting.
• Take on more account responsibility as your skills develop — this role exists because we want to grow people into managing client relationships themselves.

Skills

People skills

Communication

English

Education

Studying marketing/communications/media

Job description

Junior Marketing Account Manager

Location: Century City, Cape Town (Hybrid)

Salary: R10,000 – R15,000 per month

Company: The Social Construct

Personality first. Skills second.

Are you someone who puts people at ease, gets a conversation going, and builds relationships naturally?

Some people just have it. Clients remember their name. Colleagues want them on the call. They're warm, switched-on, curious — and other people simply enjoy working with them.

That's who we're hiring first. The marketing skills, we'll help you build on the foundation you've already started.

The Social Construct is a fast-growing marketing agency in Century City, Cape Town, working primarily with clients in the UK construction and B2B space. We deliver social media management, founder personal branding, and video-led content — and we're looking for a Junior Account Manager who will grow into owning client relationships themselves.

Here's the honest deal: we're hiring personality first, marketing skills second. You do need to have started your marketing journey in some form — freelancing, side projects, internships, or studying marketing, communications, or media. But unlike most marketing jobs, we're not hiring your CV. If you're hungry, ambitious, and people gravitate towards you — but you're still early in your marketing career — this role was built for you.

Who we're looking for

• You're a people person. You bring warmth and personality to conversations and build rapport quickly.
• You communicate clearly. Your spoken and written English helps you explain ideas, understand requests, and keep people informed.
• You listen well. You're genuinely interested in people, ask thoughtful questions, and make clients feel heard and looked after.
• You're hungry to build a career. You genuinely want to work in marketing, take feedback on board, and grow fast.
• You take initiative. If something's unclear or stuck, you ask, you chase, you fix.
• You follow through. When you say you'll do something, it gets done.
• You've started your marketing journey. Freelancing, side projects, internships, or studying marketing, communications, media, or similar — you don't need years of experience, but you need to be on the road.

What you'll do

• Join client calls, take useful notes, and follow up on agreed actions.
• Turn client requests into clear briefs for our social media managers, designers, and video editors.
• Coordinate content, feedback, approvals, and deadlines so work lands on time and to standard.
• Keep clients updated so they always know what's happening and what's needed from them.
• Learn the practical side of social media marketing, content planning, and reporting.
• Take on more account responsibility as your skills develop — this role exists because we want to grow people into managing client relationships themselves.

This is a junior role with a client-facing direction — not a position where you're expected to run everything alone from day one.

The marketing experience we need

You don't need years in an agency — but you do need to have started your marketing career in some form. Any of these count:

• Freelance work or your own side projects — social media pages, content, campaigns, anything you've run yourself.
• An internship or junior role in marketing, social media, communications, or sales.
• Studying (or having studied) marketing, communications, media, or a related field at university or college.

We care far less about where you've worked than whether you're the kind of person clients and colleagues love working with. Personality first. Marketing skills second. But yes — you need to have started.

Why join us

• A genuine growth path from junior towards fully-fledged Account Manager, with real training and real client exposure.
• A hybrid setup in Century City with a tight, creative, down-to-earth team.
• Real clients and real responsibility early on — work that actually gets seen.