Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Key Account Manager - Advertising to join our team in Cape Town.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative and hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package, which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
Key responsibilities / accountabilities:
- Serve as the primary liaison between internal & external stakeholders, clients and the Takealot Advertising team.
- Create advertising proposals to drive strategic objectives.
- Generate campaign cost estimates (CEs) and oversee the invoicing process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in financial transactions.
- Generate regular performance reports, analyse data trends, and provide actionable insights to clients for informed decision-making.
- Collaborate with various creative, analytics, and campaign management teams to ensure seamless campaign execution and alignment with client objectives.
- Provide actionable, insightful reporting to Advertisers with suggestions for future campaigns.
- Achieve and exceed advertising revenue targets.
- Identify opportunities to improve the experience of the advertiser.
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Marketing, Advertising or Media; if the Degree/Advanced Diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, 6+ years’ experience in a digital/advertising account management role in digital marketing, advertising or similar environment with Matric/Diploma.
- Minimum 5 years Advertising Account Management experience or 3 years Digital Account Management experience.
- Experience in advertising and media sales.
- Strong knowledge of the Digital Advertising & e-commerce landscape.
Skills, knowledge and abilities:
- Enthusiasm for being a part of an entrepreneurial, start-up environment.
- Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets.
- Ability to identify key advertising sales opportunities and translate these into implementable solutions and action plans.
- Demonstrated success in managing client relationships, with the ability to understand client goals and communicate effectively.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and build rapport with clients and internal teams.
- Proven track record of collaborating across different departments or teams to ensure seamless campaign execution and alignment with client objectives.
- Familiarity with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in digital marketing to drive innovation and maintain competitive advantage.
- Strong proficiency in Google Workspace.
The Environment:
- Takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of Takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers; it's all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
- is forthright but respectful.
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute.
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions.
- is competitive, self-directed and strives to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours).
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience.
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster.
- is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input.
- is curious and challenges the status quo.
- is innovative and enjoys iteration.
- is collaborative.
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for Takealot.com.
- thinks like an owner of the business.
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING .
If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind , so come and join us!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities to apply.
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