Casela Nature Parks is looking for a Commercial Assistant to support its commercial and marketing operations by assisting with competitor analysis, event planning, content creation, market research, and contract management.

Being in this role, you will be involved but not limited to:

• Maintain a competitor benchmarking file with:
  • Updated prices
  • Updated value proposition
  • Main strengths and weaknesses
• Assist in yearly commercial and marketing plan, as well as budgeting.
• Assist in planning events for Casela, including planning, communication, follow up with various internal and external suppliers.
• Preparing Casela’s presence in trade fairs.
• To be present along with the commercial team during trade fairs and other commercial events.
• Assist in monthly content creation plan and validation.
• To work with the marketing team to ensure satisfactory and timely community management on social media, as well as appropriate responses on all review websites.
• Be able to do customer visits as need be – including but not limited to influencers, VIP customers and partners.
• Perform market research, including secondary data research.
• Send artwork briefs to creative and graphic team, and follow up.
• Assist in creating survey for customers and roll out the survey.
• To prepare performance reports as needed extracted from systems or prepared manually.
• Get contracts approved by legal team and send for amendments.
• Raise Purchase request for commercial department and shop as needed.
• Follow up on suppliers’ invoices payments with Accounting Team.
• Assist in Capex preparation.
• Support as needed with selection, onboarding and follow up of suppliers for Commercial team.(including Front office, Sales, Marketing, Events, Sustainability, Shop)
• Assist in system configuration and setup as needed
• Perform any other cognate duties as may be assigned related to the nature of your work

Candidate’s Profile:

• Holds a degree in Hospitality Management, Business Management or any other relevant discipline
• Have minimum 3 years working experience in similar capacity in hospitality industry
• Commercial awareness would be an advantage
• Be an advocate of Casela with all stakeholders
• Be customer-oriented as well as team-oriented
• Assist in finding solutions to problems that arise
• work well in teams,with good interpersonal skills
• Pay attention to details
• Have a good level of written and spoken English and French
• Be computer literate and willing to learn new skills
• Be logical in all undertakings
• Be well organized,to respect deadlines and commitments
• Able to work individually as well as part of a team
• Able to work flexible hours on week-ends if needed

Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by sending a motivation letter with their CV to:

The Human Resources Department

Casela Nature Parks

Royal Road, Cascavelle

Or on our HR email                               

 The Management reserves the right to call only successful candidates for interview or not to make any appointment following this advertisement.