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Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

Muizenberg, Western Cape, Za

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

Part of the founding team at HyperliDevelop and deploy best practices and policies to deliver the highest level of customer experience.Constantly iterate operational processes and systems to drive rapid growthConstantly and aggressively experiment with new marketing growth strategies and tactics, with a willingness and facility to fail, learn and iterateManage the Product team through agile management methodologiesHead up the design of UI/UX for both the mobile app and desktop products. Product Ownership of both desktop/mobile and mobile app platformsManage and built internal workflow automation to improve productivity within the organization Manage the BI and Data warehousing funtion at Hyperli, making sure stakeholders had access to a 360 view of company performance to drive data-driven decisions. Oversee the company’s fiscal activity, including budgeting, reporting, and auditing.Work closely with senior stakeholders, CEO, CFO, CTO and other executives.Provide inspired leadership company-wide, engaging with top-level management.Develop the company’s culture and overall company vision.Work closely with the human resource department to ensure great hiring.

Chicago, Il, Us

Managing the Marketing, Merchandising, Goods Buying and, BI Teams at Groupon South Africa. • Management of the above listed departments, responsible that each hit their respective Quarterly KPI Targets • Conceptualizing and executing retail strategy that drives quantifiable results • Full ownership of the marketing budget • Target Setting for all National Demand Targets • Closely work with our Intl. Dev teams developing tools/reporting to help various departments with commercial decision making • Constant evaluation and iterations to best practice and operational processes within the retail department. • Translate strategic goals into retail operational plans to achieve the required targeted growth in sales and profit; identify and optimise promotional opportunities ensuring these are co –ordinated with wider Groupon promotions and campaigns • Produce and present a range of financial/non-financial reports for the Senior Management team

Chicago, Il, Us

Management of all Groupon's Marketing channels. Execution of comprehensive marketing strategies to drive key business objectives across an array of consumer segments.• Overseeing Brand Building: needs assessment, discovery, brand guidelines and deployment strategy to activate and grow brand equity and awareness.• Optimizing cutting edge marketing processes and tools to meet strategic expansion and global needs.• Ensuring marketing is cohesive, premium, customer-relevant and effective in driving customer loyalty and profitable business growth.• Driving customer acquisition and retention via paid and organic search, social media programs, push marketing, SEO, and other online marketing initiatives while also bringing new consumers into the fold via more traditional offline measure.• Establishing key metrics and managing the marketing department to deliver against demand targets. • Leading the development of key sales materials to support larger marketing initiatives through each step in the marketing and sales funnel.

Chicago, Il, Us

To support Groupon in deriving strategic insights from its large amount of data. A high-visibility role which required interactions with Senior Management for the provision of data-driven insights on the business and recommendation for critical decision making. • Analysing various Groupon sources of data, including revenues, subscribers and categories featured, finding patterns and deriving conclusions to present to Senior Management • Building complex models and spreadsheets to analyse Company performance and to derive strategic insights • Working with Business Intelligence tools to analyse company performance and to generate management reports • Building predictive models to forecast revenue performance and deal behaviour on the platform • Creating and manage Sales reporting to drive business growth and provide visibility to sales staff and management • Managing the account allocation process

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for Goods Inventory, including unit economics, planning, merchandising that will run in their assigned markets. It involves trend forecasting that will optimize the performance of their assigned market(s). This highly analytic role requires close collaboration with many other areas of the organization. • Manage Groupon’s buying team to achieve sales quotas based on city performance, market size and scheduling diversity • Create and disseminate Sales and revenue Forecasting • Review and plan deals based on availability, gross profit and marketing goals. • Interpret and implement best practices for Groupon South Africa's sales strategy and work to develop and integrate tools for reporting and deal relevance. • Help determine and track Key Performance Indicators of each market’s relative success, as well as optimizing deal quality, pricing, geography, and other attributes contributing to overall revenue impact.

Chicago, Il, Us

Cape Town, Za

Business Studies & Finance

Business/Managerial Economics