Technical Marketing Specialist

Technical Marketing Specialist – Discovery Green

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Green

Launched in September 2023, Discovery Green is the newest businesses within the Discovery Group. Discovery Green makes it simple and affordable for businesses to run on renewable energy. Powered by some of the largest wind and solar plants in South Africa, the Discovery Green platform makes use of actuarial modelling to help businesses meet decarbonisation goals with savings and certainty to the cost of electricity. Our mission is to establish South Africa as the global leader in renewable energy, creating employment and investment and helping power the economy.

Key Purpose:

Discovery Green is seeking a talented Technical Marketing Specialist to join its dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to join a dynamic team and make a real impact.

Technical Marketing is a core function throughout the Discovery Group, responsible for analytical and research projects that support product development, sales and distribution strategies, and strategic initiatives throughout the business. The skills and expertise of Technical Marketing and distribution will be critical as Discovery Green continues to expand..

Key Outputs:

The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following functions:

The chance to play a key part in the end-to-end sales process, producing high-quality presentations for client sales meetings by gathering and analysing data, curating client-specific product and sales strategies, and creating a polished overall look and feel. Renewable energy products are technical in nature and the sales process can span many months. The role requires a candidate with strong technical, communication and people management skills.

The successful candidate will attend and lead client meetings, supporting the team in making sales, and will provide valuable input to the rapidly evolving product set that Discovery Green requires, demonstrating an innovative and agile product development mindset. The role will involve producing sales documents for clients, including propositions, contracts, quotations, and general overviews.

The successful candidate will collaborate with Marketing and Distribution teams to ensure the latest available assets, content, and information is available for clients and the distribution force. They will also derive new insights and make recommendations on product positioning, intermediary sales tools, position papers, and product development.

Responsibilities will also include the development of renewable energy thought leadership pieces such as industry whitepapers, presentations for conference events and technical marketing materials for a variety of industry stakeholders. This role is expected to fit into the Discovery Green agile culture, where roles are not siloed, and individuals are likely to be expected to assist across different disciplines in sales, finance, actuarial, marketing, product development, and research.

Competencies:

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:

Education and Experience:

The following requirements are essential:

• Matric
• Formal qualification/s, with a strong analytical or business focus, and a proven record of academic excellence (Actuarial, Mathematics)
• At least 2 -3 years’ experience in a Technical Marketing environmen
• Proven experience in data analysis and reporting, preferably within a business context.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.