
Marketing Coordinator
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.
This role reports to the Head of Retail Marketing.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Load promo and merchant priority on Google Ad Manager timeously
- Monthly Google Ad Manager reports for promo and merchant priority campaigns
- POE screenshots & documentation
- Execution of weekly merchant priorities i.e. prompt buyers and suppliers for briefs, send relevant specs, follow-ups, artwork, and stock approvals
- Scheduling & Loading Merchant Priority Flyouts
- Manage Marketing Inbox
- Daily monitoring & trafficking of all inbound Marketing enquiries from Zendesk, Conversocial & Marketing inbox, escalating to relevant team members and responding directly where possible
- Creating and management of coupons using the coupon tool
- Booking of merchant priority campaigns into Asana and check against the marketing calendar
- Administrative support for all Marketing team members
- Administration of all Marketing-led competitions and prize-draws (including winner selection, prize fulfillment and CPA compliance documentation)
- Ad hoc support for all Marketing team members in coordination of daily duties and administrative tasks
- Assist with administrative tasks around broadsheets
- Send weekly Marketing Activity Updates
- Partnership and sponsorship assistance, such as Weekly/monthly offers (e.g. Mobicred, FNB), Discovery Mall, UBM, Varsity Vibe, Vouchers (request & issue) and Approve eBucks
- Management of merchant priority sampling campaigns
- Event coordination and management
- Prepare marketing reports and presentations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing all applicable data.
- Keep promotional materials ready by coordinating requirements with the graphics department; inventorying stock; placing orders; verifying receipt
- Assist brand team
- Competition agreements for Radio ads
- Sourcing products for TV ads
- Influencer campaigns
- Assist Traffic Manager
- Creating Asana tasks for promos, newsletter, weekly carousels, flyouts
- Following up on creative
- Building and maintaining brand stores
- Uploading Ts and Cs on site
- Supporting function to the Retail Marketing Managers
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 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 adaptable 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 is desirable
- 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 strives 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!
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