Marketing Portfolio Manager - Midrand

Dis-Chem Pharmacies; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-related salary

Medical aid

Provident fund

Staff account

Job summary

Dis-Chem Pharmacies is seeking a Marketing Portfolio Manager for its Head Office to plan and manage end-to-end campaigns across brand, categories, and private label lines. The role translates the marketing calendar into executable campaigns aligned to commercial priorities and coordinates delivery with senior marketing leaders.

The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 5+ years in campaign planning or marketing operations, with 3–5 years in leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Project Management, Communications, or related field.
• 5+ years' experience in campaign planning, marketing operations, or integrated marketing roles
• 3-5 years' experience in a leadership or people management role within multidisciplinary marketing roles
• Experience working across brand, category, or business unit marketing teams preferred

Responsibilities

• Translate the approved marketing calendar into detailed campaign plans across portfolios, business units, categories and brand initiatives
• Prioritise campaigns based on commercial objectives, trading cycles, and capacity
• Maintain an integrated, execution-ready campaign calendar across all business units
• Ensure alignment between brand, category, and promotional campaigns
• Manages end-to-end campaign execution across channels and teams, from planning and briefing through to execution and closure
• Manages timelines, dependencies, and deliverables across internal and external stakeholders
• Track campaign progress, dependencies, and risks to ensure campaigns are delivered on time, in full, and to brief
• Drive consistency in campaign execution across all touchpoints
• Act as the central point of coordination between Brand Strategy, Ecosystem Marketing, and Media
• Facilitate alignment on campaign scope, priorities, and delivery timelines
• Ensure adherence to marketing processes, governance frameworks, and approval protocols
• Proactively manage risks, bottlenecks, and escalation points
• Solid understanding of integrated marketing campaigns and campaign planning within retail or General Merchandise environments
• Experience managing marketing calendars and coordinating multi-stakeholder campaign delivery
• Familiarity with cross-channel marketing execution (digital, in-store, traditional media)
• Strong organisational and coordination skills to manage complex, overlapping campaigns
• Ability to balance strategic priorities, execution constraints, and stakeholder expectations
• Clear communicator with a structured, detail-oriented approach
• Campaign planning effectiveness
• Campaign delivery
• Stakeholder alignment
• Governance compliance
• Team leadership & capability

Skills

Campaign planning

Stakeholder management

Cross-channel marketing

Leadership

Organisational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing/Business/Communications

Job description

Dis-Chem Pharmacies has an opportunity available for a Marketing Portfolio Manager for their Head Office. The Marketing Portfolio Manager plans and manages Dis-Chem's end-to-end marketing campaigns across business units, categories, Private Label brands, and the Dis-Chem brand. The role translates the marketing calendar set by the Head of Brand and Marketing Strategy into executable campaigns aligned to commercial priorities, and coordinates delivery in close collaboration with the Head of Ecosystem Marketing and Head of Media Excellence.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Project Management, Communications, or related field.
• 5+ years' experience in campaign planning, marketing operations, or integrated marketing roles
• 3-5 years' experience in a leadership or people management role within multidisciplinary marketingroles
• Experience working across brand, category, or business unit marketing teams preferred

Responsibilities

Campaign planning and calendar management

• Translate the approved marketing calendar into detailed campaign plans across portfolios, business units, categories and brand initiatives
• Prioritise campaigns based on commercial objectives, trading cycles, and capacity
• Maintain an integrated, execution-ready campaign calendar across all business units
• Ensure alignment between brand, category, and promotional campaigns

Campaign management and execution coordination

• Manages end-to-end campaign execution across channels and teams, from planning and briefing through to execution and closure
• Manages timelines, dependencies, and deliverables across internal and external stakeholders
• Track campaign progress, dependencies, and risks to ensure campaigns are delivered on time, in full, and to brief
• Drive consistency in campaign execution across all touchpoints

Stakeholder alignment and governance

• Act as the central point of coordination between Brand Strategy, Ecosystem Marketing, and Media
• Facilitate alignment on campaign scope, priorities, and delivery timelines
• Ensure adherence to marketing processes, governance frameworks, and approval protocols
• Proactively manage risks, bottlenecks, and escalation points

Competencies Essential

Key competencies

• Solid understanding of integrated marketing campaigns and campaign planning within retail or General Merchandise environments
• Experience managing marketing calendars and coordinating multi-stakeholder campaign delivery
• Familiarity with cross-channel marketing execution (digital, in-store, traditional media)
• Strong organisational and coordination skills to manage complex, overlapping campaigns
• Ability to balance strategic priorities, execution constraints, and stakeholder expectations
• Clear communicator with a structured, detail-oriented approach

Key Performance Indicators

• Campaign planning effectiveness - Quality and accuracy of campaign plans aligned to calendar, capacity, and commercial priorities, with minimal rework
• Campaign delivery - On-time execution of campaigns, in full, and in line with agreed briefs and execution standards
• Stakeholder alignment - Feedback from marketing, category, and business unit stakeholders
• Governance compliance - Adherence to brand, approval, and campaign management standards
• Team leadership & capability: Effective team coordination, campaign delivery quality, capability development, and stakeholder collaboration.

Special Conditions of Employment

• SouthAfricancitizen
• MIE,clearcriminalandcredit
• Driver'slicenseand/orownreliabletransport

Remuneration and benefits:

• Marketrelatedsalary
• Medicalaid
• Providentfund
• Staffaccount

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