Marketing Coordinator

Marketing Coordinator
Marketing Coordinator

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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