Khanyisile Pakkies

• Led the delivery of integrated marketing campaigns across digital, social media, and TV (ATL) for blue-chip FMCG, healthcare, and financial services brands.
• Acted as the primary liaison between clients and internal teams including strategy, creative, production, media, finance, and traffic.
• Translated client business objectives into clear briefs and actionable work streams across multiple stakeholders.
• Managed complex projects within regulated environments, ensuring compliance, brand integrity, and consistency.
• Supported retainer management and developed out-of-scope budgets in collaboration with production teams.
• Oversaw quality control of all deliverables and prepared regular performance reports for leadership.
• Key Accounts: Nestlé Maggi, Netcare Group, Netcare Plus, Netcare Appointmed, Nedbank CIB, Nedbank Commercial Banking.

* Manage the day-to-day relationship with global clients, ensuring high levels of service and client satisfaction.
* Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple marketing and production projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope and within budget.
* Work closely with Client Delivery, Production, Finance and agency teams to deliver high-quality campaigns across digital, content, video and social channels.
* Gather client briefs, define project scope, set timelines and coordinate resources to ensure smooth project delivery.
* Track project progress, manage risks, provide regular status updates and resolve issues to keep projects on schedule.
* Manage project budgets, purchase orders (POs), billing and financial reporting, ensuring costs are accurately tracked and reconciled.
* Build strong relationships with clients and internal teams while maintaining Hogarth's high standards of quality and operational excellence.
* Use project management tools such as Jira, Fido, Maconomy and Microsoft Office to manage workflows and improve team collaboration.
* Support the use of AI-enabled tools and efficient ways of working to improve project delivery and productivity.

• Ensured end-to-end execution of integrated marketing campaigns by aligning client objectives with internal strategy and creative teams.
• Consulted with clients to translate business requirements into clear campaign deliverables.
• Managed campaign budgets, tracking over-burns/under-burns and motivating for additional budget when required.
• Created detailed quarterly reconciliations and internal time-tracking reports for financial accountability.
• Collaborated with finance to ensure CEs were approved, supplier POs issued, and invoices sent timeously.
• Worked closely with traffic to allocate resources and develop realistic project timelines.
• Key Accounts: Nestlé Cremora, Cipla, Harvest Time, Lillets.

• Supported the marketing team in daily administrative tasks and organised marketing events.
• Collected data from marketing campaigns and conducted annual surveys and market analysis.
• Developed new social media campaigns and assisted in creating promotional presentations.
• Liaised with stakeholders and assisted in report writing and campaign strategy research.