AdTech Sales Manager at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:

• Driving the adoption and usage of Takealot’s self service advertising platform by Retail Suppliers and Advertising agencies
• Develop promotional material and content to encourage adoption of the platform by Retail Suppliers
• Engaging with suppliers to suggest potential strategies to optimize campaigns and converting existing ad customers to use the self-service tool.
• Create and implement new supplier acquisition strategies, and drive long term re-engagement for onboarded advertisers
• Collect feedback from suppliers about the advertising platform and provide useful insights to further enhance the platform
• Build case studies of the successful usage of the self-service tools to drive adoption by ad agencies.
• Work with the internal supplier Communication team and external providers to develop and present material for supplier events to drive adoption
• Run educational webinars to train users (agencies or suppliers) in the best use of the platform and how to optimize their campaigns
• Run events to market the advertising platform and explain its benefits
• Escalate any operational platform issues to the technical teams to resolve

Attributes Required:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail and follow-through
• Excellent content design; and presentation skills
• Ability to understand and apply advertising technology
• Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Understanding of the digital advertising and e-commerce environment
• Ability to manage and influence people across various business units
• Strong numeracy skills

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelors degree (or equivalent diploma) is preferential but not required
• 5 years experience in B2B sales
• Digital Marketing, Advertising and or Sales qualifications are advantageous but not required
• 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, 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
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
• thinks like an owner of the business.