--- title: "Account Manager - Retail Media" company: "takealot.com" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/takealot-com" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-account-manager-retail-media-9ecf677f-12a7-4307-b43d-b13d70d8b487" apply_url: "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8156068" workplace: onsite location: "Cape Town" employment_type: unspecified seniority: mid role: sales region: middle-east-africa date_posted: 2026-09-03T09:44:02.000Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T19:07:02.548Z --- # Account Manager - Retail Media **takealot.com** · Cape Town Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8156068 ## About the role takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a **Account Manager - Retail Media** to join our Takealot Group Advertising team in Cape Town. We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard working people to join us. We offer market related benefits, 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. **This position reports to the Advertising Sales Specialist - Team Lead** **Your responsibilities will include: ** - Maximise value from existing Takealot Group relationships (brands and sellers) - Directly attracting new brands, agencies and non-retail advertisers to invest in new and existing advertising inventory - Initiating, designing and ensuring implementation of group advertising campaigns - Target suppliers and sellers (working with internal teams) to offer additional value through group advertising options - Customise group advertising campaigns for high value clients - Continuously contribute to the enhancement of the group rate card and pitch deck for standard campaigns - Obtain assets required for designers to implement campaigns - Ensure all booked advertising campaigns are added to the marketing calendar (briefed into retail marketing managers) and executed effectively and on time - Oversee billing and payment - Oversee campaign tracking reports and communicate outcomes to clients, building a campaign execution portfolio - Consistently meet and surpass advertising sales targets - Leverage Takealot’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences to ensure that advertising campaigns meet the success criteria set by the client - Utilize a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service and programmatic ad buying to put solutions in place that will help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales and more - Act as a strategic partner to advertising clients and sell a broad range of advertising solutions that will ensure that their business goals are met **Attributes Required**: - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail and follow-through - Excellent presentation skills - Excellent campaign proposal design and management skills - Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets - Skilled in managing high-value accounts and managing relationships at an senior level - Entrepreneurial mindset - Strong understanding of the digital advertising environment including sales, product, tools and campaign management - 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 **Qualification & Experience:** - Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma- If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, at least 6 years of account management experience/exposure (through projects or responsibilities) will be required - 3 years experience in advertising sales (account management-individual contributor) - Experience in Digital Marketing, Advertising and or external Sales; a good understanding of the digital advertising landscape - E-Commerce experience is advantageous - Demonstrated ability to consistently achieve sales targets - Strong track record of internal and external relationship management **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, it’s all in the execution after all. We love what we do and what we are creating. We seek to employ** Extraordinary Minds**, people who are: - Experts at DOING, they can not only design but also execute - Analytical, able to use data to make decisions. Letting data decide but not consume - Competitive. Although innovation is important, GREAT requires a lot of work. This does not happen only in business hours - Curious. Always questioning the status quo - Not averse to risk - Business smart. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input - Self-directed, taking action based on own initiative - Collaborative - Thorough - User focused, always trying to understand a product from the users perspective - Able to communicate clearly and not afraid to voice an opinion, no matter how unpopular We seek to Employ an **Extra Ordinary Mind** who: - is forthright but respectful - is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute - is analytical, able to use data to make decisions - is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours - is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience - is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster - is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input - is curious and challenge the status quo - is innovative and enjoys iteration - is collaborative - will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com. - thinks like an owner of the business. - is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind** so come and join us! *Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.* --- Source: takealot.com's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-account-manager-retail-media-9ecf677f-12a7-4307-b43d-b13d70d8b487