Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in brand management, marketing and sales focus on collaboration to develop and execute strategic sales and marketing initiatives. These individuals focus on driving revenue growth, promoting the Firm's services, enhancing brand visibility, and capturing new business opportunities. They utilise market research, digital marketing, creative campaigns, and effective sales strategies to engage clients, enhance the firm's brand and market presence, and achieve organisational targets.

As a sales generalist at PwC, you will be responsible for engaging in various sales activities to drive revenue and achieve sales targets. Working in this area, you will build and leverage a broad understanding of the Firm's products or services and utilise skills in identifying customer needs and providing appropriate solutions. To be successful in this role, you will be adaptable and work across different industries and markets to maximise sales opportunities.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.

Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.

Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.

Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.

Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.

Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.

Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.

Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.

Job purpose:

Support the Client & Markets (C&M) Team function in a cross-functional role to deliver high quality outcomes aligned to marketing and business development objectives. The role exists to support the C&M purpose and work as part of a team of problem solvers to help deliver, assist on execution on all inperson, hybrid and virtual events from concept to completion in line with PwC brand, standards, and relevant policies and processes.

Qualification:

Relevant Marketing Diploma/Qualification

Professional Qualification:

Chartered Institute of Marketing: Diploma in Professional Marketing or related qualification

Experience:

2-4 years’ experience in a similar role OR a marketing and conference/events industry

Work location:

In office 5 days a week

Specialist Knowledge required for the role:

Good written/communication and analytical skills, or a willingness and aptitude to learn

Detail-oriented attitude and conscientious effort to meet deadlines

Genuine interest in marketing, communications and business development

Creativity and hardworking

Strong time/task management and organisational skills

Specific skill requirements for the role:

Computer literacy (Google Suite and Microsoft products, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint).

Budgeting and record keeping

Good with admin related tasks

Personal attributes required for the role

Excellent interpersonal skills

Positive-can do attitude

Team player

Highly professional

Ability to work after hours, when needed, to affect changes, resolve incidents or attend events

Ability to work independently (assist with and/or run with projects and ensure implementation thereof).

Ability to think on your feet and be able to solve problems that may arise during events

Other:

Familiarity on the use of social media

Photography skills

Main Duties:

The Associate is typically a junior role in C&M. The role requires a willingness to learn multiple skills across a broad range of C&M portfolio services. Associates typically support more senior C&M Associates and Managers and in some cases the AD/Senior Manager to deliver outcomes. Learning to interact with new systems and processes and meeting deadlines are key requirements for the role. An associate’s responsibilities include administrative functions. As an Associate progresses towards promotion to the Senior Associate grade, he/she should have identified areas of the C&M portfolio for specialisation and development and achieved specific development milestones and objectives, documented in progressive work plans.

Responsibilities:

Programme-specific delivery (e.g., contacts information accuracy including alumni, post-event Client Feedback programme administration, brand shop administration and upkeep and control over branded items (e.g. banners), with oversight by Senior Associate and/or Manager

Management of promotional storeroom (from invoicing, summary reports, refunds, suppliers to keeping the storeroom neat and tidy)

Basic brand knowledge to prepare internal presentations

Assisting the Western Cape Marketing Coordinator with ad-hoc events administration and on-the-day presence and support as required

C&M shared services: specific objectives identified in workplan

Support/Admin as required (incl. preparing documents for payments and complying with internal procurement policies)

Drive and build the business research and competitor intelligence areas, by working on ad-hoc and ongoing research

Support Internal marketing communication efforts, ensuring consistent messaging and content creation for marketing materials

Videology and photography: Share knowledge and assist in recording videos for content and taking photos for all events and campaigns, ensuring high quality visuals as per guidelines

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

April 30, 2025