Sales Specialist: Advertising (Marketplace Sponsored Product Ads) at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:

• Driving the adoption and usage of Takealot’s self service advertising platform for Sponsored Product Ads; by Marketplace sellers
• Evaluate success metrics and drive campaign performance using data
• Consistently meet and surpass advertising sales targets for the platform
• Assist in development of promotional material and content to encourage adoption of the platform by Marketplace Sellers
• Provide support to Marketplace Key Account Managers to encourage usage of the advertising platform by their Key Accounts and problem solve issues with these accounts
• Implement new seller acquisition strategies
• Collect feedback from sellers about the advertising platform and provide useful insights to further enhance the platform
• Assist in building case studies of the successful usage of the tools
• Work with the internal Seller Communication team to develop and present material for seller events to drive adoption
• Contribute to the development and hosting of educational webinars to train users on performance metrics, insights, and how to drive greater results
• 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
• Ability to persuade sellers to adopt new technology
• Excellent content design; and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets
• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude, self-motivated
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Understanding of the digital advertising and e-commerce environments

Qualification & Experience

• Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma
• Minimum 3 years experience in B2B software or advertising sales
• Digital Marketing, Advertising and or Sales experience
• E-Commerce experience is advantageous but not required
• 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 an Extra Ordinary 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