Unilever is currently hiring for a Digital Marketing Manager – Cleanipedia
Function: Marketing
Reports to: Home Care Southern Africa Marketing Lead
Location: La Lucia Ridge, Durban
Terms & Conditions: Full time, onsite

Are you ready to build Southern Africa’s largest cleaning platform? Do you want to change the game of #Cleantok? How would you like to make South Africa’s favourite cleaning brands famous on social media? Does collaborating with hundreds of creators to deliver world-class creative communication sound like your thing? What about making brands like Omo, Comfort, Handy Andy, Sunlight, Domestos and Cleanipedia more famous? Do you want to make cleaning fun, easy, desirable & shareable? Then this job is for you!
We are on a mission to build the biggest cleantertainment platform in Africa & we need you as part of our team.

Currently with 200k followers on Tiktok alone! We provide Unilever Homecare brands amplification through our easy cleaning info and hack with some of SA’s favourite cleanfluencers!

IF YOU ARE READY TO CHANGE THE GAME OF CLEANTOK THEN THIS IS FOR YOU!

This role blends strategic digital marketing leadership with experiential brand-building to create integrated campaigns that drive awareness, engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty. The successful candidate will lead end-to-end digital programs across channels while also developing and executing immersive brand experiences, events, and activations that connect meaningfully with consumers and customers. The role also includes leading influencer and creator partnerships, ensuring that influencer activity is strategically aligned to brand goals, audience growth, engagement, and measurable business impact.
In addition, this role owns social media strategy and execution across priority platforms, including content planning, community engagement, paid social, social listening, performance optimization, and emerging practices such as Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Large Language Model (LLM) optimization to improve brand visibility across AI-powered discovery environments.

You’ll be part of a team on a mission to build the biggest “cleantainment” platform in Africa — making cleaning fun, easy, desirable and shareable.

Key Responsibilities

Digital Marketing Strategy & Campaign Execution

Develop and execute integrated marketing strategies across digital channels, social media, paid media, SEO/SEM, web platforms, and experiential activations.
Lead end-to-end campaign planning from insight and concept development through to execution, optimization and post-campaign analysis.
Use consumer, customer and market insights to shape marketing plans and improve campaign effectiveness across digital, experiential, influencer and social media activity.

Social Media Strategy & Content Leadership

Own the social media strategy across priority platforms, ensuring channel plans are aligned to business goals, audience needs and brand priorities.
Develop and manage social media content calendars, including editorial planning, publishing schedules and platform-specific content requirements.
Lead the creation, briefing, review and optimization of social content formats including static, video, short-form, live and community-led content.
Manage agency partners responsible for day-to-day publishing and community engagement, including responses to comments, messages, mentions and relevant online conversations.

Influencer, Creator & Community Engagement

Develop and implement influencer and creator strategies to expand reach, strengthen credibility and drive engagement with target audiences.
Identify and build relationships with influencers, creators and brand advocates aligned to brand values, audience priorities and campaign objectives.
Oversee influencer briefs, content approvals, timelines, contracts, usage rights and compensation to ensure quality, compliance and on-time delivery.
Collaborate with creators and cleanfluencers to deliver engaging, culturally relevant and shareable cleaning content.

Performance, Insights & Digital Optimization

Track, analyze and report on campaign, influencer, event and social media performance using relevant KPIs such as reach, engagement, community growth, leads, conversion, ROI, earned media value, sentiment and brand impact.
Conduct social listening and monitor brand sentiment, competitor activity, culture trends and emerging conversations to identify risks and opportunities.
Plan, execute and optimize paid social campaigns to grow reach, engagement, traffic and conversion in line with campaign objectives.
Develop content and channel strategies that improve discoverability across AI-powered search and answer engines using Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Large Language Model (LLM) optimization principles.

Experiential Marketing & Brand Activation

Oversee experiential marketing programs, including events, activations, partnerships, trade engagements and consumer experiences that strengthen brand equity and engagement.
Ensure consistent brand messaging and a seamless consumer journey across physical and digital touchpoints.
Identify new technologies, platforms, creators, social trends and experience formats to keep the brand competitive and culturally relevant.

Stakeholder, Agency & Budget Management

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including brand, sales, shopper marketing, PR, creative, media, legal and external agency partners.
Establish and maintain social media governance, including brand tone of voice, approval processes, platform best practices and escalation protocols for sensitive issues or reputation risks.
Oversee budgets, timelines, vendors, platform partners and agency relationships to ensure campaigns and experiences are delivered on time and within budget.
Lead and mentor team members where applicable, providing clear direction, prioritization and performance support.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.
Proven 7+ years experience in digital marketing, social media marketing, brand marketing, experiential marketing, influencer marketing, event marketing, or integrated campaign management.
Strong understanding of digital channels, social platforms, platform-specific content behaviour, analytics, content ecosystems and marketing technologies.
Experience developing social media strategies, managing content calendars and leading day-to-day platform execution.
Experience with community management, paid social campaign delivery, social listening tools and performance reporting.
Familiarity with optimizing content for AI-powered discovery, including GEO, LLM-friendly content structuring, answer-engine visibility and emerging search behaviours.
Experience planning and executing brand activations, events, influencer programs, or immersive consumer experiences.
Demonstrated experience managing creator or influencer relationships, negotiations, contracts and campaign delivery.
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect marketing activity to business results.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, agencies and budgets simultaneously.
Experience presenting plans, performance and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, presentation and leadership skills.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to convert data into actionable insights.
Creative problem-solving ability and adaptability to changing social, digital and consumer trends.

Why Join Unilever?
• Work for one of the world’s most purpose-led and trusted brands.
• Drive meaningful impact on business capability and performance.
• Be part of a supportive, culture driven environment that values people and growth.
• Enjoy opportunities for regional exposure and professional development.

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

Digital Marketing Manager Cleanipedia