Key Account Manager - Advertising

Takealot a leading South African online retailer is looking for a highly talentedKey Account Manager Advertisingto join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young dynamic hyper growth company looking for smart creative and hardworking 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 wont 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 decisionmaking.
• Collaborate with various creative analytics and campaign management teams to ensure seamless campaign 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:

• Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in Marketing Advertising or Media if the Degree/Advanced Diploma qualification requirement isnt 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 & ecommerce landscape.

Skills knowledge and abilities:

• Enthusiasm for being a part of an entrepreneurial startup 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 and alignment with client objectives.
• Familiarity with industry trends best practices and emerging technologies in digital marketing to drive innovation and maintain competitive advantage.
• Strongproficiencyin Google Workspace

The Environment:

• takealot employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customer centric fun and have the shared ambition of takealot 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 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 selfdirected 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 ecommerce and delivering a worldclass 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.
• 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.