Key Account Manager - Advertising (Marketplace Sponsored Product Ads)

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 :

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer- centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com 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 * . **