Key Account Manager - Advertising
takealotcom
Cape Town
Posted Mar 6, 2026
- Other
- Takealot Group Advertising
Job description
[](https://www.takealot.com/), South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a **2 x** high-achieving **Key Account Manager (Digital Advertising)** to join our team Retail Media Team.
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.
**Your responsibilities will include:**
- 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 decision-making.
- Collaborate with various creative, analytics, and campaign management teams to ensure seamless campaign execution 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.
**Qualification & Experience:**
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Marketing, Advertising or Media, if the Degree/Advanced Diploma qualification requirement isn’t 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 & e-commerce landscape.
**Attributes Required**:
- Enthusiasm for being a part of an entrepreneurial, start-up 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 execution and alignment with client objectives.
- Familiarity with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in digital marketing to drive innovation and maintain competitive advantage.
- Strong proficiency in Google Workspace.
**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*.**