Senior Digital Marketing Executive

Collinson

Wes-Kaap

On-site

ZAR 600,000 - 900,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A digital marketing firm in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Digital Marketing Executive to manage and optimise digital content across multiple platforms. The role requires 4+ years of experience in digital publishing, expertise in content management systems, and a strong understanding of SEO and accessibility standards. Successful candidates will join a dynamic team and help drive improvements in digital content management while mentoring junior staff.

Qualifications

4+ years of experience in digital publishing or content management.
Expert knowledge of CMS and web publishing best practices.
Experience with A/B testing and optimisation techniques.
Strong SEO and WCAG accessibility understanding.

Responsibilities

Manage and optimise digital content across various platforms.
Lead coordination of complex content updates ensuring consistency.
Ensure compliance with accessibility guidelines like WCAG.
Optimize content for SEO and usability across channels.
Collaborate with developers, product teams, and analytics to improve experiences.

Skills

Content management systems expertise

SEO principles

Attention to detail

Strong communication skills

Leadership skills

Collaboration

Sitecore

A/B testing

Leadership

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in marketing or communications

Tools

Contentful

WordPress

Sitecore

HTML

CSS

Job description

Overview

Collinson City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

The Senior Digital Marketing Executive plays a key role in managing and optimising digital content across multiple platforms, ensuring that updates are executed with precision, consistency, and in line with business objectives. This role involves advanced content management, applying best practices in accessibility, SEO, and optimisation strategies. The Senior Digital Marketing Executive serves as a subject matter expert in content management systems (CMS) and champions accessibility standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure continuous improvement and innovation in digital publishing.

Key Responsibilities

Advanced Content Management & Maintenance: Manage, update, and optimise digital content across CMS platforms, ensuring adherence to best practices in web standards, SEO, and accessibility.
Lead the coordination of complex content updates across multiple websites, apps, and microsites, ensuring consistency with technical, design, and brand standards.
Oversee the implementation of content changes, ensuring compliance with accessibility guidelines such as WCAG, and optimising for usability and inclusivity.
SEO, Accessibility & Content Optimisation: Ensure all content updates are fully optimised for search engines and are accessible to all users, in line with SEO best practices and accessibility standards.
Lead in ensuring digital content meets the latest accessibility guidelines, including WCAG, and work to integrate inclusive design principles into all updates and changes.
Work closely with analytics and customer experience teams to track, test, and refine digital content, ensuring the most effective user experiences across platforms.
Recommend and execute testing strategies to improve content layouts, navigation, and interaction points, ensuring accessibility is prioritised in all tests.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers and product teams, to ensure that content changes are implemented smoothly, efficiently, and in compliance with all relevant standards.
Act as the lead CMS subject matter expert, advising teams on best practices for content updates, accessibility improvements, and digital optimisation.
Guide the delivery of content updates, overseeing quality assurance processes to ensure accuracy, brand consistency, and compliance with both SEO and accessibility requirements.
Stay updated on emerging trends in digital publishing, content management, SEO, and accessibility, ensuring all practices remain current and effective.
Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members or other stakeholders on best practices in CMS use and accessibility.

Knowledge, skills, and experience required

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or a related field.
At least 4 years of experience in digital publishing, content management, or a related field, with a proven track record in managing complex digital platforms.
Expert knowledge of content management systems (CMS) and advanced web publishing best practices.
Strong understanding of SEO principles and advanced knowledge of web accessibility standards such as WCAG.
Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Strong communication and leadership skills, with a collaborative approach to cross-functional teamwork.
Experience with CMS platforms such as Contentful, WordPress, Sitecore, or similar systems.
Experience with A/B testing and optimisation techniques.
Proficiency in HTML and CSS for advanced content updates.
Familiarity with UX/UI principles and experience with digital design optimisation.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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