Marketing Manager

Momentum Insure; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in South Africa is seeking a dynamic marketing professional to lead the end-to-end marketing function for their intermediated portfolio. The candidate will develop and execute marketing strategies to drive profitable growth across various channels. Candidates should have strong marketing experience in financial services and proven leadership abilities.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years related marketing experience, preferably within financial services.
• Experience in B2B and/or non-life insurance marketing.
• Minimum of 5 years' management and leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and drive marketing and brand strategy for the intermediated channel.
• Develop marketing programs for sales growth and revenue enhancement.
• Measure marketing metrics for decision making around revenue growth.

Skills

Strategic and tactical thinking capability

Business acumen

Strong interpersonal and people skills

Negotiation skills

Project management

Client focus

Results driven

Service delivery

Stakeholder engagement and management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing or equivalent

Job description

Introduction

Momentum Group Limited (Momentum Group) is a significant player in South Africa's life insurance and integrated financial services sectors.

We are a proud Level 1 B‑BBEE South African‑based group dedicated to building and protecting our clients' financial dreams.

Our client‑facing retail and specialist brands, including renowned names such as Momentum, Metropolitan, Guardrisk, and Eris Properties, play a pivotal role in fulfilling this purpose.

Our federated model emphasises empowerment, accountability, and continuous engagement with all our stakeholders.

Designed in close consultation with leaders across the group, this operating model aims to unleash each business unit's inherent energy and commercial drive through our collaborative federated approach.

Role Purpose

We are seeking a dynamic marketing professional to lead the end‑to‑end marketing function for the intermediated portfolio within Momentum Insure. This role is responsible for developing and executing marketing strategies that align with the broader business unit's objectives. The successful candidate will design and implement targeted programmes and initiatives to drive profitable growth across our intermediated channels, including Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs), Business Development Consultants, Strategic Partners, and Consult by Momentum.

Requirements

Experience and Qualifications: A Bachelor's degree in Marketing, or an equivalent qualification. 5 – 8 years related marketing experience, preferably within financial services, with experience in B2B and/or non‑life insurance marketing. Strong through‑the‑line marketing experience in partner‑driven or intermediated environment, with a creative passion that contributes to business growth. A minimum of 5 years' management and leadership experience, including oversight of multidisciplinary teams (e.g., agency management, partners / vendors, and direct reports).

Key Skills

• Strategic and tactical thinking capability
• Business acumen
• Strong interpersonal and people skills
• Negotiation skills
• Project management
• Accountability
• Client focus
• Results driven
• Flexibility and adaptability
• to detail
• Proactivity
• Service delivery
• Stakeholder engagement and management

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, support and drive marketing and brand strategy in the intermediated channel that delivers established business objectives in collaboration with peers and colleagues.
• Develop marketing programs for sales growth and revenue enhancement for the intermediated channel.
• Drive development and measurement of marketing metrics that enable effective decision making around revenue growth, market share, market intelligence and profitability in the intermediated channels.
• Through disciplined project management: engage, monitor, influence and work closely with the marketing value chain to deliver high quality marketing initiatives.
• Drive the development of integrated marketing strategies and campaigns that maximises the effectiveness of the business development activities.
• Establish mechanisms to support the building of relationships with existing and prospective intermediaries, strategic partners and industry bodies.
• Interpret market insights and business context to influence marketing strategy and communication plans for the intermediated channel.
• Partner and interact with vendors to supply marketing supporting concepts.
• Collaborate with sales and distribution, product, marketing and creative teams to drive appropriate marketing and communication solutions to the intermediated channel.
• Contribute to the marketing standards and guidelines for the function that drives consistency in brand messaging and differentiation in the intermediated channels.
• Report on performance of marketing campaigns, gain insight and assess against goals.
• Finance and Budgeting: manage portfolio budgets, balancing the requirements for the portfolio objectives and optimal use of the brand funds for overall marketing impact.
• Identify opportunities to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency continuously.
• Provide input into the risk identification processes and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.
• Culture and people management: build and maintain relationships with the marketing team in Momentum Insure, internal business portfolio teams and the broader Group stakeholders that promote cross‑delivery practice solutions.
• Create a positive work climate and culture to energise the team, give meaning to work, minimise work disruptions and maximise team productivity.
• Drive a culture that guides and directs best practice, fostering an environment of continuous learning, improvement and cohesiveness.
• Demonstrate exemplary leadership behaviours through personal involvement.
• Identify team member growth and development needs and schedule interventions to enable ongoing development, training and personal growth.
• Effectively manage performance within the team to ensure business objectives are achieved.