Overview
Media Planner Jobs in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa at Hollywoodbets
Title: Media Planner
Company: Hollywoodbets
Location: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Responsibilities
Planning & Implementation:
- Provide support to the Marketing Intelligence and Insight Manager and Senior Media Planner assist with day-to-day tasks and admin requirements.
- Planning, Monitoring and Post Campaigning of Broadcast Media (Television, Radio, Press, Print, Out of Home and Cinema)
- Analysing and streamlining processes to improve efficiencies, collaboration and engagement across departments/businesses
- Ensure internal stakeholders and management are kept updated with the proposed project campaigns, project plans and budgets.
- Clearly communicate objectives, timelines and plans to all stakeholders and ensure they have a thorough understanding of requirements.
- Collaborating with creative Teams, ensuring campaigns meets objectives and are aligned to our brand.
- Ensure media budgets are adhered to and escalate any potential variances.
- Maintain an up-to-date understanding of the company, its products, and its client base to implement
effective campaigns.
- Keep abreast of Media Industry changes and offerings, foster Media Owner Relationships
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Teams across the business as well as external stakeholders.
Technical Skills And Experience
- Solid understanding of through-the-line, integrated marketing principles
- Heavy-weight experience in all aspects of Traditional Media Planning (TV, Radio, OOH, Print, Cinema)
- Flowplan and budget management
- Creation of Media Plans (using software like TELMAR)
- Monthly Post Campaign Analysis of all Broadcast Media activity
- Tracking and Monitoring of competitor ratings delivery (TELMAR)
- Tracking and Monitoring of competitor adspend (AdIntel)
- Highly proficient in Excel
- Established working relationships with Media Owners highly advantageous
- Able to work quickly, able to experiment and amend approach based on data analysis and results.
- Liaising with Media Owner in order to fulfil chaselists
- Liaising with HWBs Production Teams in order to fulfil chaselists
People
- Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties.
- Excellent project management, organizational and time management skills
- Work closely with Marketing Intelligence Manager to optimise workflows, review pipeline, resolve challenges, and present solutions.
- Constant self-improvement to ensure your Team consistently performs above standard
- Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills
Business Development
- Use strong analytical abilities to efficacy of campaigns
- Ensure a thorough understanding of our customers and products and be empathetic about how we communicate with our stakeholders and customers
Analytics & Reporting
- Understand key marketing performance metrics and make use of media planning tools to provide an understanding of the landscape, forecasts, competitive analyses, campaign results, and customer trends & insights in order to translate results into actionable insights for marketing team and the business.
- Weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting
Qualifications
- Media Planning experience
- Degree/Diploma preferrable
About Us
Hollywoodbets is a sports and entertainment betting operator that was born and bred in Durban, South Africa. Whether you’re in one of our upmarket retail branches or online, our customers can conveniently place bets in style anytime, anywhere.
We’re proud to partner with local and international legends, from the Hollywoodbets Sharks and Brentford FC to iconic events like the Hollywoodbets Durban July. Being part of our Purple Team means being part of something bigger.
At Hollywoodbets, every day is a chance to learn, grow, and make an impact. We move fast, think big, and work together to turn bold ideas into reality. With passion, creativity, and a shared purpose, we bring our Purple Spirit to everything we do.
The opportunities here are endless. If you’re driven, curious, agile and ready to level up, there’s no limit to how far you can go with the Purple Team!
