Key Account Manager

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.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Developing and managing long-term partnerships with key advertising agencies
- Educating advertising agencies on the Takealot Advertising proposition
- Create advertising proposals to drive strategic objectives
- Drive more revenue spend from advertising agencies by adding value and insights
- Work collaboratively with other teams in the organisation to deliver strategic campaigns
- Provide insightful reporting to Agencies with suggestions for future campaigns
- Achieve and exceed advertising revenue targets
- Identify opportunities to improve the experience of the Agencies

**Qualifications and experience**:

- Solid network of Advertising Agency contacts
- Experience working with Ad Agencies and Media Agencies in South Africa
- Excellent presentation skills
- Ability to translate advertiser strategy into advertising plans to meet expectations
- 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, 5+ years of account manager experience selling and actively pitching to media agencies
- 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 communication 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**:

- 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 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
- 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. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply_.