Experience

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  Impressive Laser Cutting

  • Thrichard street 4 Swellendam

  • Marketing and production manager

    • May 2024 - Present
    • Thrichard street 4 Swellendam

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  Jaffe's Ford

  • Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Marketing Manager

    • Feb 2021 - May 2024
    • Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa

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  Rain Africa

  • Swellendam

  • Marketing Practitioner

    • Mar 2015 - Dec 2020
    • Swellendam

    In the time that I have been with Rain I have:significantly increased their social media following on twitter and facebook;implemented various management systems to increase job flow;compiled budgets and marketing reports;conceptualised, planned and implemented all in store promotions;planned and implemented brand awareness campaigns;facilitated the switch over of the ecommers platformsdo the maintenance, updating and marketing of said platform;liaise with various mall marketing teams for product and brand awareness;colaborated with other companies in joint marketing initiatives;search for and identify possible marketing opportunities;run the twitter and facebook accounts (South Africa, USA and Ireland);do copywriting for social media and newslettersmaintain the newsletter databaseinteract with various bloggers across the country;do recordkeeping of marketing activities;managed the marketing team: parttime assistant, two graphic designers and a visual merchandiser.do all webshop purchase orders and invoicingaddress all customer queries / complaints;Although not one of my main functions anymore, I am conversed in creating artwork for any printed or digital media campaign.

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  Langeberg Bulletin

  • Editor / Designer

    • Jan 2002 - Jan 2018

    My duties include article writing in Afrikaans and English, designing of adverts to meet the clients' needs, client liaising, marketing, all related admin tasks.

  • owner

    • 2002 - Jan 2018

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  Local News Network

  • Graphic designer

    • Jan 1998 - Oct 2001

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  Panorama Pharmacy

  • Secretary

    • Jan 1995 - Dec 1997