Mr D - Retail Media Account Manager

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This role involves designing and executing group advertising campaigns while maximizing value from relationships and driving quarterly client review sessions for performance optimization.

Mr D, a division of the Takealot.com Group, is looking for a highly talented Retail Media Account Manager 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! 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

  • Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do 
  • Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. 
  • Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: Takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Build and maximize value from existing group relationships
  • Attract new brands, agencies, and advertisers directly
  • Design and execute group advertising campaigns for suppliers/sellers
  • Customize advertising campaigns for high-value clients
  • Gather design assets and schedule campaigns in marketing calendar
  • Oversee billing, payment, and campaign tracking reports
  • Create and communicate campaign execution portfolios
  • Consistently achieve and exceed sales targets.
  • Leverage insights and innovations to reach target audiences through retail media
  • Utilize flexible pricing/buying models (self-service, managed, programmatic)
  • Act as a strategic partner delivering solutions aligned to business objectives.
  • Maintain high client retention rate and achieve strong client satisfaction scores
  • Achieve high campaign success rate and deliver campaigns on-time and within budget
  • Drive quarterly increases in platform registrations and achieve strong monthly active user engagement
  • Complete annual professional development requirements and propose new service improvements and innovations
  • Drive quarterly client review sessions focused on retail media performance optimization and strategic growth planning

Attributes Required:

  • Smart and hard-working with strong integrity
  • Passion for online/digital marketing and advertising (essential)
  • Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail
  • Strong multitasking ability and meeting tight deadlines
  • Resilience under pressure in fast-paced environment
  • Bias towards action, solution-oriented
  • Self-starter with active thirst for knowledge

Qualifications and experience:

  • Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma preferred
  • Minimum 3 years B2B software/advertising sales (account management) OR 5 years account management experience;
  • Digital marketing, advertising, and/or sales experience mandatory; E-commerce experience advantageous

Let’s talk about life @ Mr D

  • The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
  • No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
  • Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on Prosus Academy and more.
  • Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
  • Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
  • Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
  • Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs.
  • Free parking: Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).
  • Paid Time Off: Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.

Takealot.com: SA's top online store providing diverse products with fast delivery and competitive prices, prioritizing customer satisfaction to become Africa's leading online shopping destination.

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