Demand Marketing Manager

Apex Group · Cape Town, Western Cape

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Description

  • As a Demand Marketing Manager for Apex Invest, you will be responsible for driving global demand generation across a sophisticated, data-driven private capital platform and supporting services.
  • The Apex Invest platform is a compliant, end-to-end marketplace connecting allocators and fund managers, leveraging Apex proprietary technology, data insights, and integrated capital raising capabilities. Your role will focus on translating this complex proposition into high-performing, audience-led campaigns that generate qualified pipeline across both sides of the marketplace.
  • You will lead integrated campaigns that drive allocator engagement, fund manager acquisition, and platform adoption, working closely with Portfolio Marketing, Sales, Product, and Events teams to ensure a consistent go-to-market approach.

Job specification

Go-to-Market & Campaign Strategy

  • Own GTM planning for Apex Invest campaigns, including product launches, feature releases, solution activations and event-led demand programs
  • Develop integrated campaign plans spanning platform, content, and event ecosystem
  • Build structured campaign frameworks aligning sales, marketing, and CRM execution campaign packs, messaging, channel mix

Demand Generation & Pipeline Growth

  • Design and execute multi-channel demand generation campaigns targeting:
  • Institutional allocators pension funds, family offices, wealth managers
  • Fund managers seeking capital and distribution
  • Use channels including paid media, email, digital content, webinars/events, and partnerships
  • Optimise campaigns to drive high-intent conversations and platform engagement, aligned to the platform's matching and capital allocation model

Audience & Value Proposition Development

  • Translate Apex Invest's core capabilities into compelling messaging, including:
  • AI-powered allocator–manager alignment for investment mandates
  • Data-driven insights and scoring frameworks
  • Capital raising and investor access solutions
  • Develop persona-based messaging for both sides of the marketplace allocators / managers
  • Work with Product and Portfolio Marketing to align messaging with platform capabilities and roadmap

Content & Thought Leadership

  • Partner with Content and Brand teams to deliver:
  • Campaign-led assets reports, case studies, platform demos, case studies
  • Insight-led content aligned to private markets, capital allocation trends, and investor behaviour
  • Leverage Apex Invest insight ecosystem webinars, podcasts, forums to fuel demand and nurture journeys and establish Apex Invest as the destination for private markets and alternatives

Performance Marketing & Optimisation

  • Define campaign KPIs across the funnel MQL, SAL, pipeline contribution, platform engagement
  • Monitor and optimise performance using marketing automation and CRM tools
  • Apply data-driven decision making to continuously refine targeting, messaging, and channel mix

Sales Alignment & Enablement

  • Partner closely with Apex Invest management team, Sales and SDR teams to:
  • Ensure clear qualification criteria and lead handover
  • Deliver campaign insights and pipeline reporting
  • Maintain clear visibility of each stage of the pipeline to drive better conversions
  • Support sales enablement with targeted collateral and campaign narratives

Platform & Data Integration

  • Ensure campaigns are fully integrated across marketing technology stack Salesforce, marketing automation platforms
  • Support tracking of user journeys across platform engagement, content consumption, and event participation
  • Contribute to improving attribution models in a multi-touch, multi-channel environment

Skills Required

  • 4–7 years' experience in B2B demand marketing, ideally within:
  • Financial services / asset management
  • Fintech / WealthTech
  • Capital markets ecosystem
  • Proven experience delivering multi-channel, global demand generation campaigns
  • Strong understanding of private markets, investment ecosystems, or capital raising dynamicspreferred
  • Ability to translate complex platform or technology propositions into clear, commercial messaging
  • Experience working in matrixed, global organisations across Product, Sales, and Marketing teams
  • Strong analytical capability with experience in performance tracking and optimisation
  • Hands-on experience with CRM and marketing automation tools e.g. Salesforce
  • Excellent communication skills, with a clear and concise storytelling style

Core Competencies

  • Commercial mindset with strong focus on pipeline and revenue impact
  • Audience-first thinking ability to engage both allocators and fund managers
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Collaboration and stakeholder management across global teams
  • Ability to operate at pace across multiple campaigns and priorities
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