Marketing Manager - Gauteng

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MARKETING MANAGER — M-KOPA GAUTENG

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You've run campaigns that actually moved product. You've stood in a trading store at 7am to check whether your POS materials made it to the shelf, and you've sat in a boardroom at 4pm presenting the attribution model that proved the campaign worked. You know both worlds — the strategic and the executional — and you're increasingly rare because of it.

Most marketing roles ask you to pick one. This one needs both — but with a clear bias toward where real impact happens: in the field.

M-KOPA is hiring a Marketing Manager for Gauteng — a role that sits at the intersection of brand strategy, high-impact field marketing (70%), digital execution (30%), and sales-driven marketing that directly drives revenue across retail channels and DSR networks. If you've built your career in FMCG, telecoms, or a BTL agency handling major consumer brands, and you're ready to apply that expertise to something with a mission behind it — this is worth reading.

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WHAT M-KOPA IS BUILDING

We've served more than 7 million customers across Africa, unlocking over $2 billion in credit. 55% of the people we reach are accessing formal financial services for the very first time. 86% report a meaningful improvement in their quality of life. We're growing toward 10 million customers, and Gauteng is a critical growth hub in that trajectory.

We're also in the middle of a deliberate brand transition — evolving from our roots in connected asset financing toward positioning as a Smart Money Platform. That transition needs a marketer who can hold the strategic thr...