Takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Marketing Coordinator 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. 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:
- Provide administrative support to Marketing Managers and team as needed
- Ad hoc support for all Marketing team members in coordination of campaigns, daily duties and administrative tasks
- Conduct market research and analysis to stay informed on industry trends and competitor activity
- Execution of weekly merchant priorities i.e. coordinate with buyers and suppliers for briefs, send relevant specs, follow-ups, artwork approvals, and scheduling & loading merchant priority assets.
- Creating Asana tasks for promo's, newsletter, weekly carousels, flyouts as well as briefing merchant priority campaigns into Asana.
- Load promo and merchant priorities on Google Ad Manager timeously
- Monthly Google Ad Manager reports for promo and merchant priority campaigns
- Prepare campaign proof of execution reports
- Daily monitoring & trafficking of all inbound Marketing enquiries from Zendesk & Marketing inbox, escalating to relevant team members and responding directly where possible
- Assist CRM team with CRM campaigns and One Trust ticket management and execution.
- Creating and management of coupons and coupon campaigns using the coupon tool and campaign & monthly performance reports
- Update marketing calendar with Marketing activities and campaigns.
- Monthly marketing invoicing and income reporting & reconciliation
- Responsible for managing, creating and distributing of vouchers for the marketing team
- Administration of all Marketing-led competitions and prize-draws (including winner selection, prize fulfillment and CPA compliance documentation)
- Coordinate competition agreements and upload T&Cs onsite
- Assist Brand and Traffic Management teams as and when required
- Track and report on key marketing metrics and campaigns
- Assist with planning and executing partnership, events and sponsorship campaigns
- Prepare marketing reports and presentations by collecting, analysing, and summarizing all applicable data.
- Send weekly Marketing Activity Updates to relevant teams
Attributes required:
- Smart, hard-working, with demonstrable integrity
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- A passion for retail and 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 organized with meticulous attention to detail, and a well-structured thought process
- 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
- The ability to be reactive and adaptability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Fast and diligent learner
- Motivated self-starter with a drive for results
Qualifications and experience:
- Relevant Bachelor's Degree in Marketing
- 1-2 years experience as a Promotions/Marketing Coordinator or in a similar role
- Internship experience in a Retail / Marketing role desirable
- A strong working knowledge of Excel / Google sheets and Microsoft Office
- Good numerical and analytical skills – adept at creating formulae, graphs etc.
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 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
- 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 HARD WORKING
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.
