Job Description

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.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and managing long-term partnerships with key advertising agencies
• Educating advertising agencies on the Takealot Advertising proposition
• Create advertising proposals to drive strategic objectives
• Drive more revenue spend from advertising agencies by adding value and insights
• Work collaboratively with other teams in the organisation to deliver strategic campaigns
• Provide insightful reporting to Agencies with suggestions for future campaigns
• Achieve and exceed advertising revenue targets
• Identify opportunities to improve the experience of the Agencies

Qualifications and experience:

• Solid network of Advertising Agency contacts
• Experience working with Ad Agencies and Media Agencies in South Africa
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to translate advertiser strategy into advertising plans to meet expectations
• Proven track record of consistently hitting goals and targets
• Competence in Excel, PowerPoint & Google Workspace
• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma
• If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn't met, 5+ years of account manager experience selling and actively pitching to media agencies
• 5 to 7 years minimum (at least 3 years key account experience)

Skills, knowledge and abilities:

• Account Management experience
• Strong knowledge of the Digital Advertising & e-commerce landscape
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Enthusiasm for being a part of an entrepreneurial, start-up environment
• Ability to collaborate effectively with team members within the organisation
• Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets
• 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

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, its 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 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. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.

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