Jovana S
Digital Marketing Manager
Jovana is a Senior Digital Marketer with 13+ years' experience, specialising in MarTech & Lifecycle Marketing, driving digital transformation.
Summary
Jovana is a highly skilled digital marketing professional with over 13 years of experience. Her expertise spans a wide range of digital marketing areas, including lifecycle marketing, MarTech, CX strategy, and marketing automation. She’s also well-versed in ecommerce, website development and optimisation, and project management, with a deep understanding of all digital channels.
In recent years, Jovana has excelled in leadership roles, leading high-performing teams. Her strategic thinking has driven significant growth in brand awareness, customer engagement, and overall customer experience. With her exceptional organisational skills and knack for managing teams, she consistently delivers projects on time and within budget, even under the most demanding circumstances.
Jovana is the ideal candidate for any organisation seeking a versatile, results-oriented digital marketing leader. Her unique blend of technical expertise, strategic vision, and leadership skills make her a valuable asset to any team.
Jovana would be best suited to businesses that fall within the tourism and travel, including accommodation, arts and entertainment, or the food and beverage industry as this is where her passions lie and where she has garnered most of her experience.
On her off time, Jovana spends her time exploring nature's wonders and is currently travelling around Australia with her family.
Experience
NRMA Parks and Resorts
Lifecycle Marketing Manager (2022 - current)
As a Lifecycle Marketing Manager, I've focused on multi-channel marketing strategy and its execution for the business, including email channels, automation, journeys, web push, SMS, and website personalisation. I was responsible for understanding the guest lifecycle based on the available data and mapping the relevant journeys to maximise the value of each guest to the business.
My focus was also on effectively translating data analytics into clear insights and actionable recommendations to identify opportunities for segmentation and targeting.
Part of my role was working with other marketing teams across the NRMA Group on MarTech strategy and implementation, including new systems and ways of working.
I drove and influenced customer led ways of working and using UX-first methodologies to design and deliver differentiated customer experiences.
Kluna Consulting
Digital Marketing Manager (2021 - 2022)
As the Digital Marketing Manager I was responsible for developing and executing the digital strategy for my clients. These strategies included website management and optimisation, email marketing, paid media channels, social media and SEO for the e-commerce side of the business. The digital activities that I managed resulted in 50% increase of e-commerce sales for one of the clients, during a short amount of time.
I implemented were several lifecycle marketing initiatives, with the goal of engaging existing customers and increasing sales from this audience.
I also regularly analysed and reported on digital performance, including optimisation of digital channels in response to data and trends.
I fully managed the creative process for the brands' digital content, as well as some content for print.
Guerrilla
Account Director (2018 - 2021)
Responsible for driving strategic direction across customer experience and digital initiatives through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. Besides relationship building and business development with the clients, one of the main parts of the role were quality and process management across the team to ensure the delivery of an outstanding customer experience. I was also responsible for developing my team’s skillset, providing guidance and support to team members and actively participating in improving the agency's operational processes.
Some of the clients I've worked with in this role are: Queensland Airports, Mirvac and Destination Gold Coast.
Guerrilla
Account Manager (2017 - 2018)
Management of various digital projects including budgets, timelines, allocated resources, both internal and external, risk management and reporting, using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. One of the biggest projects I've managed was a website redevelopment for 6 websites in 18 months, where the team pioneered a development approach with React and Sitecore, UX focused approach, mobile-first, 62 components, personalisation, powerful site speed, consistency, flexibility & customisation, global data sources.
In addition to visitor and conversion rate increase across these websites, we also won the Australian Marketing Institute award in 2018 for Customer Experience Marketing for Movie World website project and Sitecore Experience Award in Best Business Impact category.
Some of the clients I've worked with in this role are: Village Roadshow Theme Parks, Mirvac, BBC, Destination Gold Coast, Ipswich City Council, etc.
Blirt
Digital Marketing Consultant (2016 - 2017)
Project management of website development, marketing automation implementation, nurturing programs, and CRM integration.
I've built and executed digital marketing strategies for clients and managed their marketing activities including SEO, paid media, social media, content strategy and plans.
GCOMM
Marketing & Customer Relations Manager (2014 - 2016)
Managed the creation of marketing materials and implemented communication tactics through various media. I also worked on stakeholder management and engagement, including managing accounts to improve customers' experience and be the reliable main point of contact.
BrandState
Marketing Automation Consultant (2012 - 2013)
Design, implement, maintain and report on B2B marketing campaigns through Pardot.
Participate in the development of service offering and marketing strategy to bring competitive advantage to the employer. Management of online magazine, including copywriting and organising the publishing schedule.
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in Marketing (2011)
Saint Cloud State University