Copywriter & Content Producer
takealotcom
Cape Town
Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Other
- Takealot.com Marketing
Job description
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| [](https://www.takealot.com/), South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented **Copywriter & Content Producer** to join our 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 won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great. **Purpose of the role: The role requires an exceptional content producer and storyteller — someone who can conceptualise, write and edit sharp, scroll-stopping content for Takealot Marketplace.** They will be responsible for communicating the voice, tone, and creative consistency of Takealot while producing content that drives measurable engagement, talkability, and conversion across platforms where Takealot’s audience lives. **This position reports to the Content Production Manager** **Your responsibilities will include:** - **Marketing Content:** Plan, write, and edit high-volume content, managing concept through execution while ensuring alignment with Takealot’s Marketing, Marketplace, and Content Strategy. - **Copywriting Excellence:** Write and adapt compelling copies for a range of channels, ensuring clarity, emotional resonance, and on-brand storytelling. - **Creative Concept Development:**Collaborate with Marketing and Takealot Marketplace teams to ideate and execute strong creative concepts that bring on-brand campaigns to life. - **Research & Insights:**Stay on the pulse of South African content marketing trends, audience behaviour, and competitor activity to strengthen creative outputs and keep content relevant and talk worthy. - **Performance & Optimisation:** Measure, analyse, and report on content performance to refine tone, messaging, and creative direction — ensuring future content is data-led and impactful. - **Collaboration & Brief Management:** Understand and respond to creative and marketing briefs to effectively plan and brief collaborators. **Qualification & Experience:** - **Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification in Communications, Copywriting, English Language or related degree.** - A **minimum of 5 years working in eCommerce/E- learning/content production and/or related digital communications**. **Attributes Required**: - Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail and a well-structured thought process. - Ability to multi-task and to meet tight deadlines. - Very strong interpersonal skills and experience in marshalling cross-departmental resources towards daily goals and objectives. |
**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** who is Smart, has Integrity, and 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*.**