Affiliate Program Manager

South Africas leading online retailer is looking for a highly talented Affiliate Program Manager to join our Marketing team in Cape Town.

We are a young dynamic hyper growth company looking for smart creative 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 wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This position reports to the Head of Performance and Projects

Your responsibilities will include:

• Program Strategy & Revenue Growth: Define execute and scale Takealots affiliate roadmap to meet quarterly customer acquisition and revenue targets.
• Performance Campaign Management: End-to-end management of performance campaigns aligning affiliate activations with Takealots commercial calendar (e.g. Blue Dot Sale Daily Deals and peak seasonal events).
• Partner & Publisher Management: Onboard engage and manage relationships with affiliates content sites referral partners and influencer/social networks to drive high-converting traffic.
• Data Analysis & ROI Optimization: Daily tracking and reporting of campaign metrics (clicks conversion rate AOV CPA and ROAS). Continually test measure and optimize payouts commissions and campaign creative.
• Platform Operations: Oversee day-to-day operations on our affiliate tracking platform including tracking setup link generation creative asset deployment and publisher payout management.
• Quality & Brand Safety: Monitor affiliate traffic for quality control. Implement brand safety rules and monitor platforms to guard against fraudulent activity or policy violations.

Qualification & Experience:

• Diploma or Bachelors Degree in Marketing Digital Media Commerce Business Administration or a related field.
• Experience: 4 years of campaign management experience within a digital or performance marketing team (e.g. managing referral programs performance social digital ad campaigns or partner marketing).
• Platform Experience: Hands-on experience working directly with an affiliate management or partner tracking platform).
• Performance Mindset: Proven ability to manage performance budgets run A/B campaign tests and analyze digital conversion funnels to drive positive ROI.
• Analytical Skills: Intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in Google Analytics (GA4) and Excel/Google Sheets; comfortable working with large datasets to pull actionable campaign insights.
• Communication & Negotiation: Strong communication and relationship-building skills with a track record of negotiating placements or partnership deals.

Minimum Required Competencies:

• Affiliate/Partner Platform Operations: Direct practical experience navigating and managing an affiliate or partner tracking SaaS platform (e.g. PartnerStack CJ Everflow).
• Web Analytics Proficiency: Competency in tracking conversion funnels attribution UTM tracking and user behavior via platforms like Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
• Data Manipulation & Reporting: Advanced capability in Excel / Google Sheets (pivot tables complex formulas data transformation) to calculate key metrics like CPA AOV ROAS and CAC.
• Performance Campaign Execution: Hands-on ability to plan launch A/B test and optimize performance marketing campaigns end-to-end.
• Partner & Channel Management: Skills in onboarding managing and negotiating commercial agreements or commission tiers with traffic partners digital publishers or creators.
• Traffic & Conversion Optimization: Ability to monitor referral traffic mechanics identify drop-offs in the funnel and drive conversion rate optimization (CRO).
• Traffic Quality & Brand Safety Controls: Knowledge of digital ad compliance with the ability to identify low-quality referral traffic policy violations or ad-fraud risks.

Attributes Required:

• Experience working on large-scale catalogue-driven ecommerce platforms.
• Affiliate platform management: System setup and tracking
• Performance campaign execution: Planning launching optimizing
• Data & GA4 analysis: Excel reporting tracking ROAS
• Partner negotiation: Commission structures and placements
• Conversion optimization: A/B testing and funnel fixes
• Traffic quality control: Compliance and fraud prevention
• Cross-functional alignment: E-commerce strategy execution
• Agile problem solving: High-volume campaign delivery

The Environment:

• employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customer- centric fun and have the shared ambition of 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 whois Smart has Integrityand is Hardworking.

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities to apply.