# Account Manager - Retail Media - Company: [Takealotcom]() - Location: Cape Town - Team: Takealot Group Advertising - Posted: September 3, 2026 ## Job description , 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.* ## Apply [Apply on Takealotcom]() Canonical job page: