Group Head of Marketing

🚀 NEW OPPORTUNITY | Group Head of Marketing | Cape Town | Hybrid

I’m working with a privately owned, founder-led investment group with a portfolio of businesses across manufacturing, agriculture, ecommerce, financial services, media, property and luxury travel.

They’re looking for a Group Head of Marketing but this isn't your typical Head of Marketing role where you inherit a big team, established processes and a marketing playbook.

Quite the opposite.

They need someone who can walk into a business, understand how it makes money, who its customers are and where the growth opportunities sit, then say: “Here’s what I think we should do, here’s why, and here’s how I’m going to make it happen.”

Think:
📈 Commercial strategy
🧠 Brand & positioning
🛒 D2C / ecommerce
🎯 Performance & digital
🤝 B2B marketing
🚀 Go-to-market & launches
📊 Analytics & meaningful KPIs
⚙️ Building the marketing function

The interesting part?
Marketing across the group is currently spread between agencies, freelancers and specialists.

You'll have the autonomy to figure out what should come in-house, what should stay outsourced, which processes need to be built and, if the commercial case makes sense, build a marketing team around you over time.

I’m particularly interested in people who have:
→ Built or scaled a marketing function
→ Worked in a startup, scale-up or entrepreneurial environment
→ Genuine in-house/client-side ownership
→ Strong commercial instincts, not just marketing knowledge
→ Taken strategy all the way through to execution
→ Worked directly with founders / senior leadership
→ Used data to prove what marketing is actually doing for the business

You don't need experience in every industry or every marketing channel.
D2C/ecommerce experience is useful, but it's not a dealbreaker.

What matters far more is whether you can understand a new business quickly, turn ambiguity into a plan and then actually execute it.

So if your happy place is maintaining a well-oiled corporate marketing machine, this probably isn't it. 😅

If you like building the machine, we should talk.

A few important details:
📍 Cape Town CBD
🏢 Primarily in-office, with some flexibility for the right person
💰 R65k–R90k CTC per month (negotiable for the right person)
🤝 Permanent
👥 Direct exposure to founders and business leaders
🚀 Significant autonomy to shape and build the marketing function

If you're reading this thinking:
“Give me the commercial problem, let me figure out the marketing opportunity, and then let me build it.”
I'd love to hear from you.