Marketing Graduate

Kick-start your Marketing Career at Mimecast – Johannesburg Are you a recent marketing graduate ready to gain hands-on experience with a global cybersecurity leader? Mimecast is looking for a motivated and detail-oriented graduate to join our dynamic South Africa and Middle East Marketing team. This is your chance to work across a variety of impactful marketing functions – from events and social media to demand generation and logistics – while supporting go-to-market teams and driving brand visibility across the region If you're passionate about marketing, love bringing creative ideas to life, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is the opportunity to learn, grow, and make your mark What You’ll Do Procurement, distribution and logistics:

• Support with merchandise procurement including quoting, ordering, branding and receiving
• Assist with packaging and distributing merchandise, branding and gifting within South Africa (RSA) and Middle East (ME)
• Assist with storing inbound deliveries

Marketing hub support:

• Work together with the marketing team to update and maintain the Marketing Hubs for RSA and ME go to market teams
• Support with Salesforce tracking dashboard setups on a quarterly basis

Tradeshows and events:

• Support field and channel marketing managers in delivering all aspects of tradeshows and events for enablement and demand generation activities. This includes stand activations, briefing branding requirements to creative services, on-site event support, team coordination and merchandise activations.
• Support coordination of internal activations such as call out days or staff activities where marketing input is required
• Attend and support customer enablement days – setup, branding, merchandising and activations
• Support managing resource scheduling with surrounding teams

Social media:

• Support briefing new social posts focused on local press releases, events, thought leadership content and ensure this is covered weekly in the marketing briefing sessions for RSA and ME.
• Support EMEA counterpart with LinkedIn polls – research questions, key messages and post-survey content packaging and promotion.

Demand generation nurtures support:

• Assist marketing team and go to market teams with coordinating execution and tracking of email nurture execution for cross and upsell sprints.
• Attend campaign meetings and execute required tasks for campaign delivery and tracking

What You’ll Bring

• An eager attitude with the ability to execute with accuracy and speed
• Ability to assimilate information quickly
• Adapts approach quickly in response to changes in plans
• Ability to juggle numerous priorities flawlessly
• Great ideas that deliver creative and memorable experiences, while building opportunities for future pipeline
• Aptitude for data-driven marketing

#LI-HO1 DEI Statement Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.