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Email Marketing Manager

Somewhere

Fully Remote
📍 City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
🇿🇦 SA Friendly: 1.0/1.0

🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Somewhere is open to applicants from South Africa. The estimated monthly salary is R18,500 – R27,750 ZAR. This role is suited for mid-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

Job Description

Email Marketing Manager

Role:Email Marketing ManagerLocation:RemoteContract Type:Independent contractorWorking Hours:Flexible, with availability to support UK launches and deadlines

About the client

Our client is an established, industry-recognised online training provider that helps midlife career changers, predominantly women aged 45–65 in the UK and Ireland, become professional celebrants.

They sell premium self-paced certification programmes priced between £1,500 and £3,000, combining online learning, one-to-one mentoring, and business launch support. They are profitable, growing, and generate consistent demand through quizzes, webinars, and content.

Email is one of our most important channels. We currently send over 90,000 emails per month to a list of more than 60,000 subscribers. We are now hiring a dedicated Email Marketing Manager to take full ownership of this channel and raise the quality, consistency, and commercial impact of our email marketing.

Role Overview

The Email Marketing Manager is responsible for owning and operating the email marketing channel end to end.

This role sits at the intersection of marketing, sales, and operations and is critical to how we:
* Nurture leads over time.
* Support webinar and evergreen sales.
* Prepare high-intent leads for sales calls.
* Communicate clearly, fairly, and consistently with our audience.
You will be the single point of accountability for marketing emails across the business. This is not a purely creative role, nor a purely technical one. We are looking for someone who understands how email drives behaviour and revenue, and who can execute reliably at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Email strategy and execution
* Plan, write, build, and send all marketing emails, including:Campaign emails.Automated nurture sequences.Webinar promotion and follow-up.Evergreen and reactivation campaigns.Regular newsletters with company updates.
* Campaign emails.
* Automated nurture sequences.
* Webinar promotion and follow-up.
* Evergreen and reactivation campaigns.
* Regular newsletters with company updates.
* Ensure all emails are clear, accurate, and aligned with our brand voice and offer rules.
* Maintain consistent cadence and messaging across segments.

Design and optimisation
* Upgrade and maintain mobile-first, visually appealing email templates.
* Use layout, hierarchy, and calls to action to improve engagement and clicks.
* Apply personalisation and dynamic content where appropriate.

List management and segmentation
* Work with existing data to segment audiences meaningfully.
* Maintain list hygiene and compliance.
* Reduce unsubscribes and disengagement through relevance and pacing.

Performance analysis and improvement
* Monitor and report on:Open rate.Click rate.Click-to-open rate.Unsubscribes and deliverability.
* Open rate.
* Click rate.
* Click-to-open rate.
* Unsubscribes and deliverability.
* Analyse campaign performance and propose improvements.
* Track and report on email’s contribution to funnel performance and sales support.

Collaboration
* Work closely with:The Directors on launches, promotions, and messaging.Sales to support lead preparation and follow-up.Operations to ensure clean data and reliable execution.
* The Directors on launches, promotions, and messaging.
* Sales to support lead preparation and follow-up.
* Operations to ensure clean data and reliable execution.
* Provide feedback on messaging gaps, objections, and audience behaviour observed through email.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Must-have experience
* Proven experience in email marketing or digital marketing.
* Hands-on experience with marketing automation platforms.
* Strong copywriting skills in British English.
* Comfortable working with HTML email templates and CMS environments.
* Experience managing email campaigns at scale, not just one-off sends.
* Strong attention to detail and quality control.

Must-have traits
* Commercially minded. You understand that email exists to drive action, not just engagement.
* Organised and reliable. You deliver campaigns on time and without errors.
* Thoughtful and audience-aware. You can write for a mature, considered, non-salesy audience.
* Ownership mentality. You take responsibility for outcomes and continuously improve your work.
* Experience with ActiveCampaign.

Nice-to-haves
* Experience with GoHighLevel.
* Experience in online education, coaching, or career-change markets.
* Experience supporting webinars or sales-led funnels.

Compensation & Structure
* Compensation:$1,500 per month.
* Contract:Independent contractor.
* This is a fixed monthly engagement with clear expectations and accountability.
* No commission component, but performance is reviewed regularly against agreed KPIs.

Working Style & Tools
* Fully remote.
* You will work primarily in:ActiveCampaign for email marketing and automation.ClickUp for collaboration.
* ActiveCampaign for email marketing and automation.
* ClickUp for co

Tips for South African Applicants

Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

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Salary in Context

At R18,500/month, this role is on par with the average South African remote salary. The USD equivalent ($1,000/mo) benefits from the favourable exchange rate.

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Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

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Load Shedding Preparedness

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About Somewhere

Somewhere is a company in the Recruitment & Staffing industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 614 open positions on Hirezar. View all Somewhere jobs →