Job description
, 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:**
- 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, 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 .
- **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.*
