Marketing Coordinator

dmg events; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 25 000 - 45 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and fast-paced environment as a Marketing Coordinator with a leading events company. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to marketing strategies that drive successful exhibitions and conferences. You'll collaborate with stakeholders to create engaging campaigns, manage multiple projects, and ensure the delivery of high-quality marketing materials. If you thrive in a creative setting and possess strong communication skills, this is the perfect chance to elevate your career in marketing while working with a passionate team dedicated to innovation and excellence.

Qualifications

• 1+ years in marketing, preferably in the exhibition and conferencing industry.
• High ethical standards and excellent attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Support marketing team in generating exhibitor and sponsor leads.
• Develop effective visitor marketing campaigns to attract quality attendees.

Skills

Marketing Strategies

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Self-motivation

Education

Diploma or Degree in Marketing

Tools

Salesforce

Slack

Asana

Everlytic

Microsoft Office

Job description

About Us

dmg events is an international exhibitions and publishing company. We attract more than 425,000 visitors to our global portfolio of 80 exhibitions each year. Through our global events, our aim is simple. We want to accelerate business through face-to-face events, which is why we work so hard to bring people together, creating opportunities for them to network, learn and do business. dmg events is part of the Daily Mail Group Trust (DMGT). DMGT Manages a diverse, multinational portfolio of companies with total revenues of £2bn, that provide businesses and consumers with compelling information, analysis, insight, events, news and entertainment.

Role Summary:

Be the Spark of dmg events: Join Our Team as an Accurate, Smart & Flexible Marketing Coordinator with Outstanding Communicative Skills

We are looking for a smart, accurate, and flexible Marketing Coordinator with excellent communication skills to join our team at dmg events. The ideal candidate will have a keen eye for detail and will be able to ensure accuracy in all marketing materials and campaigns.

You will be creative with the ability to stay ahead of trends in the industry and be an excellent communicator with strong organizational skills. This role requires someone who can work independently and proactively with the ability to manage multiple projects at once.

The successful candidate will be able to understand and develop marketing strategies for our events and work with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure successful delivery. If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to develop your marketing skills and be part of a fast-paced, dynamic, and growing environment then please apply today.

Role Purpose:

Support the marketing team in meeting their objectives. To help ensure a high number of, quality, inbound exhibitor and sponsor leads are generated, through exhibitor and sponsor marketing campaigns. To meet targets set in terms of visitor and delegate attendance at the relevant events which the marketing coordinator is assigned to work on. To ensure that the marketing strategy and plans are successfully executed, to help grow brand presence.

Key Accountabilities

Exhibitor/Sponsor and partner Marketing

• Develop effective sales collaterals and presentations in consultation with Show Management and marketing managers.
• Gain market intelligence through developing a working relationship with major clients, media, associations, and marketing suppliers.
• Draft copy for mailers, social media, and other marketing channels, to promote the event to potential exhibitors and sponsors.
• Manage and update the event websites, with guidance from the Show Management and marketing managers.
• Develop and manage media plans. This includes appointing of suppliers, management of media partner deliverables, etc.
• Help to ensure that all partner and association deliverables are executed, as per the agreements with these organisations.

Visitor and delegate marketing

• Develop effective visitor marketing campaign to attract the right quantity and quality of visitors and delegates to the event.
• ‘Out of the box thinking’ to establish cost effective visitor campaigns.
• Drafting of copy for marketing channels, which results in high engagement across channels, an increase in followers and subscribers, etc.
• To manage inbound visitor and delegate enquiries relating to the event
• To support the marketing managers in meeting all other visitor and delegate promotional campaigns.
• Data – to assist in developing data build/data clean briefs. On a periodic basis, to review data and ensure that all data plans and strategies are executed according to specific deadlines and clearly articulated deliverables.
• To attend internal meetings with the team, as and when required
• To be available to attend key meetings with associations, media partners, marketing suppliers and exhibitors, where necessary
• Research and understand the relevant event industry sectors.
• To work with external designers, to develop marketing collateral, in line with approved CI for the events.
• To support the marketing managers in collecting information and in the planning the layout of the show guide.
• To help with setting up and running email marketing campaigns
• To assist in setting up and executing all above and below the line visitor and delegate marketing campaigns
• To assist with general admin

Qualifications, Experience & Skills:

• Diploma or degree in marketing from a reputable educational institution
• 1+ years in marketing, preferably in the exhibition and conferencing industry
• Excellent written & spoken English
• High ethical standards being the representative of the company providing support to all exhibitors, sales, marketing managers, and the rest of the DMG show team, as required. Ethical traits include integrity, objectivity, honesty and due care.
• Organised and efficient, excellent attention to detail
• Acts confidently and assuredly; communicates competently with different groups of people, is proactive in completing job tasks set for the marketing team.
• Shows high commitment and high willingness to perform; takes over additional tasks and responsibility on own initiative; team player.
• Is resilient in difficult situations; can cope with setbacks; reacts in a flexible way to unexpected events; can handle pressure and work to tight deadlines.
• Can work in a hybrid set up, with a blend of office bound and remote work.

Computer Skills

• Intermediate Microsoft Office Applications including word, excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of the following systems a plus
• Salesforce (Matrix)
• Slack
• Asana
• Everlytic

Required Competencies

• Self-starter, self-motivated.
• Team player. Is willing to assist in areas and do things, sometimes outside of the scope of the job description, to ensure that the events are delivered successfully.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability/proven track record of drafting and delivering on marketing plans
• Ability/proven track record of building relationships with key stakeholders marketing plans

"Please take the time to read the job description, you must meet all the criteria set out above for your application to be considered. We do check all applications and suitable candidates will be contacted within 5 days. If you are not contacted by us within 5 working days, please consider your application unsuccessful at this time."