Digital Marketing Manager

About the role:

The Digital Marketing Manager will play a critical part in leading the digital growth of Merchants on Long and Okapi. You will be responsible for managing and planning the social channels, optimising SEO, monitoring the analytics and managing social advertising.

The successful candidate will be both tactical and creative, with a keen understanding of online brand marketing, alongside planning and communicating brand strategies through digital channels to drive strong revenue growth.

The role will cover:

Implementing a creative and engaging digital marketing strategy to build awareness around Okapi and Merchants on Long’s strong brand values.

Overseeing content strategy for all uses such as editorial, website, social media, and newsletters.

Work with e-commerce manager to plan newsletters and website content.

Arrange and implement digital campaigns including paid socials.

Creating the email marketing strategy and producing the emails.

Social media management, defining strategies per social media channel that drive the growth of social media engagement, brand awareness, and ultimately traffic to the website through organic and paid social media.

Analysing Shopify and Google analytics and reporting on insights.

Improving SEO.

Being incredibly articulate with strong copywriting skills.

To apply for the role, you will need to have the following skills:

Must have broad marketing and digital marketing experience within the luxury, premium, or high-end fashion and lifestyle sector. 

3-5+ years of related digital marketing and brand marketing experience.

Experience in digital marketing software – Google Analytics, Google Adwords, and Facebook Business Manager is a must.

Ability to work in a fast-paced constantly changing environment that requires you to multitask and pivot directions when necessary. 

Highly organised with the ability to drive high-level strategic thinking while also rolling up 
your sleeves to get the job done with a focus on execution and issue resolution. 

A detail-oriented, operationally minded thinker who understands e-commerce and customer behaviour.

About Okapi and Merchants on Long:

Merchants on Long and Okapi are two distinct South African brands that share the ethos of showcasing the best of what the African continent has to offer.

Founded in Cape Town, South Africa in 2008, Okapi is an African luxury lifestyle brand that uses sustainably sourced materials to create signature pieces of exceptional quality. From start to finish, Okapi products are entirely handmade in Africa. This is a simple yet effective approach to creating job opportunities and promoting skills development within local communities.

Merchants on Long was founded in Cape Town, South Africa in 2010, with the aim of filling the void of boutiques showcasing luxury African brands. The destination store provides a platform for both emerging and established brands from around the continent and will soon launch a new e-commerce platform that will help our customers globally discover the best of what Africa has to offer. All brands stocked at Merchants are ethically made and sourced on the African continent as well as being vetted for their quality, design, and sustainable practices.