Account Manager – Advertising

Job Title: Account Manager – Advertising
Location: Cape Town
Company: Takealot.com

About the Role:
Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is seeking a talented and driven Account Manager – Advertising to join our Takealot Group Advertising team in Cape Town. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and is passionate about digital advertising and e-commerce.

Why Join Us?
At Takealot.com, we are a young, innovative, and rapidly expanding company. We offer market-related benefits, a great work environment, and a promise of challenging and exciting opportunities as we build something extraordinary together.

Reporting Line:
This position reports to the Advertising Sales Specialist – Team Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maximize value from existing Takealot Group relationships, including brands and sellers.
• Attract new brands, agencies, and non-retail advertisers to invest in both new and existing advertising inventory.
• Initiate, design, and implement group advertising campaigns.
• Target suppliers and sellers to offer additional value through group advertising options, working with internal teams.
• Customize 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 effectively.
• Ensure all booked advertising campaigns are added to the marketing calendar, briefed into retail marketing managers, and executed on time.
• Oversee billing, payment, and campaign tracking reports, ensuring successful communication of outcomes to clients.
• Consistently meet and exceed advertising sales targets.
• Leverage Takealot’s innovations and insights to attract and engage target audiences, ensuring advertising campaigns meet client success criteria.
• Utilize various pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, to help businesses build brand awareness and increase product sales.
• Act as a strategic partner to advertising clients, offering a broad range of advertising solutions to meet their business goals.

Required Attributes:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail and follow-through.
• Strong presentation skills and campaign proposal design and management abilities.
• Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets.
• Skilled in managing high-value accounts and relationships at a senior level.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong understanding of the digital advertising environment, including sales, products, tools, and campaign management.
• Ability to identify key advertising sales opportunities and translate them into actionable plans.
• Ability to manage and influence teams across various business units.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma (if the degree/diploma requirement isn’t met, 6 years of account management experience is required).
• 3 years of experience in advertising sales (account management-individual contributor).
• Experience in Digital Marketing, Advertising, and/or External Sales, with 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 Takealot Environment:
Takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial, dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun, and share the ambition of being Africa’s leading e-commerce company. We value ownership, teamwork, direct feedback, and continuous improvement.

Who We Seek:
We are looking for an Extraordinary Mind who is:

• An expert at doing, not just designing.
• Analytical, using data to make informed decisions.
• Competitive, self-directed, and committed to excellence.
• Curious, always questioning the status quo.
• Business smart, able to view problems from a business perspective using technical input.
• Entrepreneurial, thriving under change and always seeking better, faster solutions.
• Collaborative, thorough, and user-focused.
• Forthright, respectful, and unafraid to voice an opinion.
• Innovative, enjoying iteration and developing new concepts.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Takealot.com is committed to diversity and encourages applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and individuals with disabilities to apply.