Job Description
Divisional Assistant — Professional Products Division (PPD) South Africa
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa (Woodmead)
Division: Professional Products Division (PPD)
Contract type: Permanent, full-time
Reports to: General Manager, PPD South Africa (with functional collaboration across Marketing, Digital, and Product Management teams)
About L'Oréal Professional Products Division
The Professional Products Division is the historical heart of L'Oréal, partnering exclusively with hair salons and stylists worldwide. Our portfolio includes luxury and premium salon brands — L'Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Redken, Mizani, Pureology and Matrix — dedicated to empowering the hairdressing profession through innovation, education, and business support.
Role Overview
The Divisional Assistant is a unique dual-purpose role at the core of PPD South Africa. At its foundation, this role provides operational and administrative support to the General Manager. Beyond this, given the division's lean marketing structure, the role also provides valuable hands-on support to the Marketing team, Product Managers, and Digital function across their overflow projects, campaigns, and events.
This is intentionally structured as a development and exposure role: it gives an early-career candidate genuine, hands-on experience across brand marketing and digital execution, with a clear line of sight into future Junior Marketing or Junior Digital/Social roles as they become available. This path is proven — the current incumbent has been promoted into a full-time Junior Digital & Social Manager position based on the value she added while in this seat.
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Divisional & Operational Support (Core)
- Provide day-to-day administrative and operational support to the General Manager, including diary management, correspondence, and coordination of divisional meetings and reporting.
- Support the preparation of materials for internal business reviews and leadership presentations.
- Assist with general divisional coordination: travel, expenses, purchase orders, and supplier/vendor administration.
Marketing & Product Management Overflow Support
- Assist Marketing and Product Managers with the coordination and rollout of point-of-sale materials, sampling, and salon collateral.
- Support new product launch coordination, including timeline tracking, materials collation, and stakeholder briefing logistics.
- Help track marketing budgets, process purchase orders and invoices, and liaise with external agencies and suppliers on project delivery timelines.
- Support the collection of consumer, salon, and market insights, and assist with basic competitor/category tracking.
Digital, Social & Advocacy Overflow Support
- Assist in scheduling and publishing social media content calendars (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube) in line with global brand guidelines and campaign priorities.
- Support day-to-day community management: monitoring comments, messages, and brand mentions.
- Help coordinate influencer and stylist advocacy activity — shipping of press kits/product launches, tracking output, and consolidating basic coverage reports.
- Support event logistics for brand activations, launches, and salon/stylist events.
- Assist with website and e-commerce content updates (banners, product catalogs, store/salon locators) in partnership with the Digital team.
- Help consolidate weekly/monthly performance reporting (engagement, reach, campaign wrap-ups) for review by the Marketing and Digital teams.
This role provides coordination and execution support across marketing and digital projects — it does not own brand strategy, KOL relationship management, budget accountability, or campaign strategy. Those remain with the Marketing Manager, Product Managers, and Digital lead.
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