Digital Campaign Coordinator Team Lead

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.

**This position reports to the Advertising Manager.**

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Managing a team of Digital Campaign Coordinators to ensure effective campaign planning and execution, against set targets and.
- Manage the full life cycle involvement in digital advertising campaigns from enquiry stage to campaign completion. This involves, but not limited to:

- Tracking overall performance of campaigns and setting optimization processes
- Training Digital Campaign Coordinators on how to manage campaigns and use the relevant software tools
- Liaise with Marketing and the Merchant team where necessary to improve working relationships and processes
- Managing escalations of work relating to campaign coordination
- Working with the Traffic team to manage prioritisation of campaigns and relevant tasks
- Work with the Advertising Sales Team Leader to find ways to improve the way Digital Campaign Coordinators work with the Advertising Sales Specialists to execute and report on campaigns.
- Identify opportunities to improve campaign results and productivity
- Wholistic monitoring on schedule delivery and find ways to optimize based on clients success metrics
- Wholistic analysis of campaign performance and delivery
- Troubleshoot targeting issues, resolve any traffic issues and reconcile discrepancies
- Evaluation of advertising campaigns against in-house campaigns; reporting and success measurement

**Qualifications & Experience required**:

- Diploma or Advanced Certificate in Marketing/Advertising
- Must have an understanding of digital marketing
- Must have experience with DFP | Google Ad Manager or similar ad serving tools
- At least 3 years digital campaign management experience is a prerequisite
- Experience in managing a team of people

**Skills & Attributes required**:

- Leadership
- Smart, hard-working, with demonstrable integrity
- A passion online | digital marketing is essential
- Bias towards action and solution-oriented
- A self-starter and fast learner with an active thirst for knowledge
- Willing to take direction and able to work independently, demonstrating initiative
- Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task and to meet tight deadlines
- Comfortable working under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Confident, with very strong interpersonal & communication skills and a proven ability to build productive relationships quickly
- A strong working knowledge of Excel / Google sheets and Microsoft Office

**The Environment**:

- 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 an **Extraordinary Mind** who:

- is respectful but forthright
- 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 business SMART. 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
- **thinks like an owner** of the business
- is **SMART, has INTEGRITY** and **is HARD WORKING**

If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind** so come and join us
- Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply._