About Romy
What I Offer:
- Define or refresh brand purpose, positioning, and narrative
- Create brand playbooks and messaging frameworks
- Align leadership and teams around a shared vision
- Concept creation and lead 360° integrated campaigns that bring purpose to life
- Guide creative teams from idea to execution
- Use data and AI tools to enhance insight and impact
- Manage timelines, deliverables, and cross-functional teams to ensure projects run seamlessly
- Collaborate with agencies, designers, and content partners
- Keep creative and strategic alignment across all brand touchpoints
- Mentor marketing teams and emerging brand leaders
- Offer fractional brand leadership for startups without a full-time CMO
- C-level stakeholder engagement and management
- Build structural processes and clarity for sustainable growth
- Led the brand transformation of Property24 (South African equivalent to ImmoScout24), strengthening its positioning and storytelling for millions of users.
- Delivered brand and campaign strategies that deepened engagement and trust across digital channels.
- Mentored high-performing marketing teams to elevate creativity, focus, and impact.
- Marketing Representative on our Executive Leadership Team for 9 years
English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Experience
- PROPERTY24Marketing ManagerTECHApril 2015 - August 2024 (9 years and 4 months)Redefined brand and marketing strategy, driving 12–15% YoY growth in branded search and expanding market lead over nearest competitor from 2x to 5xSpearheaded national integrated campaigns (ATL, digital, social) reaching millions of consumers, strengthening Property24’s position as South Africa’s #1 property platformDirected multi-million rand marketing budget with full accountability for forecasting, optimization, and end-to-end project delivery (planning, creative, production, performance tracking, leadership reporting), maximizing ROICommissioned and translated annual brand research (1,000+ participants) into positioning, messaging, and product priorities, increasing consumer engagementIncreased Net Promoter Score from 28.8% to 54.9% over nine yearsManaged external agencies as lead partner, ensuring alignment with KPIs and brand standards while delivering measurable performance liftBuilt and led a marketing department (2 reports), mentoring team members and embedding a culture of ownership and data-driven decision makingPartnered cross-functionally with sales, product, tech, and operations
- PROPERTY24Marketing Account ManagerTECHMarch 2013 - August 2015 (2 years and 5 months)Executed integrated B2B and B2C campaigns to increase lead generationManaged external agency relationships for campaign execution and deliveryConducted annual brand research (1000+ participants) to inform strategic direction
- KORBITECSocial Media ManagerOctober 2011 - March 2013 (1 year and 5 months)Focused on brand awareness and engagementGrew B2C and B2B social profiles >200% (Facebook) and >600% (Twitter) Partnered with 4 business leaders to integrate social strategy into broader marketing initiatives
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Education
- Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing ManagementUNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN2010Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management
- Bachelor of Social ScienceUNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN2007Bachelor of Social Science
Certifications
- Zertifikat telc Deutsch B1telc2025