Account Manager - Retail Media

takealot.com , a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a Account Manager - Retail Media to join our Takealot Group Advertising team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard working people to join us. We offer market related benefits, 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.

This position reports to the Advertising Sales Specialist - Team Lead

Your responsibilities will include:

Maximise value from existing Takealot Group relationships (brands and sellers)

Directly attracting new brands, agencies and non-retail advertisers to invest in new and existing advertising inventory

Initiating, designing and ensuring implementation of group advertising campaigns

Target suppliers and sellers (working with internal teams) to offer additional value through group advertising options

Customise group advertising campaigns for high value clients

Continuously contribute to the enhancement of the group rate card and pitch deck for standard campaigns

Obtain assets required for designers to implement campaigns

Ensure all booked advertising campaigns are added to the marketing calendar (briefed into retail marketing managers) and executed effectively and on time

Oversee billing and payment

Oversee campaign tracking reports and communicate outcomes to clients, building a campaign execution portfolio

Consistently meet and surpass advertising sales targets

Leverage Takealot’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences to ensure that advertising campaigns meet the success criteria set by the client

Utilize a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service and programmatic ad buying to put solutions in place that will help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales and more

Act as a strategic partner to advertising clients and sell a broad range of advertising solutions that will ensure that their business goals are met

Attributes Required :

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail and follow-through

Excellent presentation skills

Excellent campaign proposal design and management skills

Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets

Skilled in managing high-value accounts and managing relationships at an senior level

Entrepreneurial mindset

Strong understanding of the digital advertising environment including sales, product, tools and campaign management

Ability to identify key advertising sales opportunities and translate these into implementable solutions and action plans

Ability to manage and influence teams across various business units

Qualification & Experience:

• •Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma
• - If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, at least 6 years of account management experience/exposure (through projects or responsibilities) will be required

3 years experience in advertising sales (account management-individual contributor)

Experience in Digital Marketing, Advertising and or external Sales; a good understanding of the digital advertising landscape

E-Commerce experience is advantageous

Demonstrated ability to consistently achieve sales targets

Strong track record of internal and external relationship management

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 Extraordinary Minds , people who are:

Experts at DOING, they can not only design but also execute

Analytical, able to use data to make decisions. Letting data decide but not consume

Competitive. Although innovation is important, GREAT requires a lot of work. This does not happen only in business hours

Curious. Always questioning the status quo

Not averse to risk

Business smart. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input

Self-directed, taking action based on own initiative

Collaborative

Thorough

User focused, always trying to understand a product from the users perspective

Able to communicate clearly and not afraid to voice an opinion, no matter how unpopular

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 strive 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 challenge 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. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.