About South African Breweries (SAB)

South African Breweries (SAB) is the largest brewer in South Africa and a major business division of the global beverage giant, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev). Founded in 1895 during the Johannesburg gold rush, it has a long history as a key player in the country’s economy and is known for its wide portfolio of popular beer brands.

Job Purpose

The key purpose of this role is to play a dual role across account leadership and project management, supporting the delivery of marketing activity for a portfolio of ABI brands within the internal, data-led marketing studio (draftLine). Working closely with Senior Business Account Leads, this role is responsible for the day-to-day management, coordination, and delivery of brand initiatives, ensuring work is executed on time, on brief, and in line with agreed processes, rates, and governance.

The role is designed as a development pathway, providing hands-on exposure to brand leadership, commercial management, and stakeholder engagement, while building the capability required to step into senior account leadership over time.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• Support Senior Business Account Leads in managing assigned ABI brands, acting as a reliable day-to-day contact for brand and studio teams.
• Help translate brand and business objectives into clear briefs, delivery plans, and executional priorities.
• Build trusted working relationships with brand stakeholders through consistent communication and follow-through.
• Own the end-to-end project management of assigned initiatives, including planning, briefing, tasking, tracking, and delivery.
• Coordinate internal studio resources and partner agencies to ensure work is delivered on time and to agreed standards.
• Manage timelines, dependencies, and risks, escalating early to senior leads with clear context and proposed solutions.
• Ensure all deliverables are approved through the correct governance and review processes
• Ensure tasks are correctly assigned to the right roles and resources within studio systems.
• Support accurate application of rates and scopes across projects to enable reliable reporting and cost tracking.
• Actively monitor timesheets and delivery inputs, encouraging weekly completion and flagging inconsistencies early.
• Maintain up-to-date project documentation, including plans, scopes, briefs, and status updates.
• Follow and reinforce studio workflows, tools, and ways of working across all assigned activity.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline delivery and improve clarity.
• Support performance tracking and reporting, contributing to post-campaign reviews and insight gathering.
• Use data and learnings to inform delivery decisions and improve future execution.
• Develop confidence in interpreting performance metrics with support from senior leads.
• Actively seek feedback and coaching from Senior Business Account Leads to build account leadership capability.
• Demonstrate readiness to take on increasing responsibility over time, including ownership of larger workstreams.
• Collaborate closely with project managers, creatives, strategists, and agency partners to deliver strong outcomes.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field.
• Formal project management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2 Foundation, Agile, or equivalent) is a plus, but not mandatory.
• 2–5 years’ experience in marketing, account management, or project management roles, ideally in an agency or internal brand studio environment.
• Exposure to consumer brands, preferably FMCG or beverage sectors, is desirable.
• Hands-on experience managing multiple projects, deadlines, and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Some experience collaborating with external agencies and internal cross-functional teams.
• Strong proficiency in project management tools (e.g., WorkBook, Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheet).
• Competent with Microsoft Office; familiarity with data reporting tools (e.g. Excel, Power BI, Brandwatch, Emplifi) is a plus.
• Understanding of budget, rate, and resource management principles.