--- title: "Advertising Sales Manager (Retail Media)" company: "takealot.com" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/takealot-com" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-advertising-sales-manager-retail-media-9fae8d1b-abad-4409-aeec-309ea265f83a" apply_url: "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8141593" workplace: onsite location: "Cape Town" employment_type: unspecified seniority: mid role: sales region: middle-east-africa date_posted: 2026-08-19T14:42:18.000Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T19:07:02.548Z --- # Advertising Sales Manager (Retail Media) **takealot.com** · Cape Town Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8141593 ## About the role [takealot.com](https://www.takealot.com/), South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a **Advertising Sales Manager** to join our **Retail Media team** in Cape Town. 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. This position reports to the** Group Head of Retail Media Sales** **Your responsibilities will include:** Accountable for achieving the Group’s Client Portfolio Target, by: - Drive performance within a sales team (5-10 people) to deliver against retail media advertising sales targets - Ensure that Sales processes are complete and adhered to, & service processes and that target tracking is kept up to date - Identify shortfalls in the sales process and help improve efficiency and productivity - Track key productivity metrics and manage the team against key outcomes. - Drive improvements in the quality of data and reporting offered to clients - Develop strategies for acquiring new advertising customers, and retaining and upselling existing customers - Assist in the hands-on management of strategic brands and support client engagement for high-value advertising customers - Manage and support a team of Sales Specialists with day-to-day operations - Coach the advertising sales team to improve their sales skills and pipeline-building performance, closing deals, and retaining business. - Work with the broader management team to set monthly targets for the sales team which is aligned with the business targets - Ensure a solid sales pipeline is in place for a period and that there is a plan for big clients in line with their 12-month budgets - Ensure a solid future-planning method is in place for top 30 clients on at least a quarterly basis - Creating Annual plans and driving them to encourage account growth (GMV) and collaboration (misses on RMA) - Collaborate and facilitate x-functional team environments between the Sales Specialists, Marketing, Merchant, and Finance teams. - Build presentations and deliver sales pitches to close new business. - Recruiting and onboarding of new Sales Specialists (AMs & KAMs) - Performance Management of Sales Specialists (AMs & KAMs) - Driving the adoption and usage of Takealot's self-service advertising platform by Retail, Marketplace and Advertising agencies. - Proactively participate in content planning - Collect feedback from suppliers about the advertising platform and provide useful insights to enhance the platform and service offering further. - Improve NPS scoring, retention, and account growth metrics. - Serve as a thought leader, running educational webinars and/or sharing as a speaker at events. **Qualification & Experience:** - Degree or Advanced Diploma in Business, Finance, Marketing, or Digital Communications. - Minimum 5 years’ experience in digital advertising experience and ratail media an advantage - Fluent in English language (both verbal and written) - Publisher, or relevant Industry partner responsible for driving client portfolio growth, with evidence of meeting/ exceeding sales targets. - Minimum of 2 years managing an Advertising Sales Team - Experience in establishing sales management processes - Experience with CRM tool(s) - eCommerce experience is preferred but not required **Attributes Required**: - Strong people management skills - Strong negotiating and numerical skills attention to detail - Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken - Commercially astute with an inherent understanding of the drivers of business value - Relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo) - Motivated and driven to succeed with a performance mindset - A results-oriented person who thinks Big with a lot of energy to excel in a dynamic environment. - Organized, ability to prioritize - Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated and entrepreneurial **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*.** --- Source: takealot.com's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-advertising-sales-manager-retail-media-9fae8d1b-abad-4409-aeec-309ea265f83a