Key Account Manager: Advertising - Takealot

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Key Account Manager - Advertising to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative and 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.

Key responsibilities/accountabilities:

• Developing and managing long-term partnerships with key advertiser accounts
• Create advertising proposals to drive strategic objectives
• Drive more revenue to spend from key advertisers by adding value
• Work collaboratively with other teams in the organization to deliver strategic campaigns
• Provide insightful reporting to Advertisers with suggestions for future campaigns
• Achieve and exceed advertising revenue targets
• Identify opportunities to improve the experience of the advertiser

Qualifications and experience:

• Proven track record of consistently hitting goals and targets
• Competence in Excel, Powerpoint & Google Workspace
• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma
  
  • If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn't met, at least 3 years of key account management experience or 5 years of account manager experience/exposure (through projects or responsibilities) will be required.
• 5 to 7 years minimum (at least 3 years key account experience)

Skills, knowledge and abilities:

• Account Management experience
• Strong knowledge of the Digital Advertising & e-commerce landscape
• Excellent communications and presentation skills (Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Enthusiasm for being a part of an entrepreneurial, start-up environment
• Ability to collaborate effectively with team members within the organisation
• Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets
• 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

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, and 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.