--- title: 'Affiliate Program Manager at takealot.com' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/affiliate-program-manager-takealot-com-cape-town-wrs2wa7bf9ca' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Affiliate Program Manager at takealot.com - **Company:** takealot.com - **Location:** Cape Town, South Africa - **Posted:** 2026-10-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8221557 ## Job description [takealot.com](https://www.takealot.com/), South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Affiliate Program Manager to join our Marketing 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 position reports to the Head of Performance and Projects Your responsibilities will include: - Program Strategy & Revenue Growth: Define, execute, and scale Takealot’s affiliate roadmap to meet quarterly customer acquisition and revenue targets. - Performance Campaign Management: End-to-end management of performance campaigns, aligning affiliate activations with Takealot’s commercial calendar (e.g., Blue Dot Sale, Daily Deals, and peak seasonal events). - Partner & Publisher Management: Onboard, engage, and manage relationships with affiliates, content sites, referral partners, and influencer/social networks to drive high-converting traffic. - Data Analysis & ROI Optimization: Daily tracking and reporting of campaign metrics (clicks, conversion rate, AOV, CPA, and ROAS). Continually test, measure, and optimize payouts, commissions, and campaign creative. - Platform Operations: Oversee day-to-day operations on our affiliate tracking platform, including tracking setup, link generation, creative asset deployment, and publisher payout management. - Quality & Brand Safety: Monitor affiliate traffic for quality control. Implement brand safety rules and monitor platforms to guard against fraudulent activity or policy violations. Qualification & Experience: - National Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Digital Media, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related field. - Experience: 4+ years of campaign management experience within a digital or performance marketing team (e.g., managing referral programs, performance social, digital ad campaigns, or partner marketing). - Platform Experience: Hands-on experience working directly with an affiliate management or partner tracking platform. - Performance Mindset: Proven ability to manage performance budgets, run A/B campaign tests, and analyze digital conversion funnels to drive positive ROI. - Analytical Skills: Intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in Google Analytics (GA4) and Excel/Google Sheets; comfortable working with large datasets to pull actionable campaign insights. - Communication & Negotiation: Strong communication and relationship-building skills with a track record of negotiating placements or partnership deals. Minimum Required Competencies: - Affiliate/Partner Platform Operations: Direct, practical experience navigating and managing an affiliate or partner tracking SaaS platform (e.g., Impact.com, PartnerStack, CJ, Everflow). - Web Analytics Proficiency: Competency in tracking conversion funnels, attribution, UTM tracking, and user behavior via platforms like Google Analytics 4 (GA4). - Data Manipulation & Reporting: Advanced capability in Excel / Google Sheets (pivot tables, complex formulas, data transformation) to calculate key metrics like CPA, AOV, ROAS, and CAC. - Performance Campaign Execution: Hands-on ability to plan, launch, A/B test, and optimize performance marketing campaigns end-to-end. - Partner & Channel Management: Skills in onboarding, managing, and negotiating commercial agreements or commission tiers with traffic partners, digital publishers, or creators. - Traffic & Conversion Optimization: Ability to monitor referral traffic mechanics, identify drop-offs in the funnel, and drive conversion rate optimization (CRO). - Traffic Quality & Brand Safety Controls: Knowledge of digital ad compliance, with the ability to identify low-quality referral traffic, policy violations, or ad-fraud risks. Attributes Required: - Experience working on large-scale, catalogue-driven ecommerce platforms. - Affiliate platform management: System setup and tracking - Performance campaign execution: Planning, launching, optimizing - Data & GA4 analysis: Excel reporting, tracking ROAS - Partner negotiation: Commission structures and placements - Conversion optimization: A/B testing and funnel fixes - Traffic quality control: Compliance and fraud prevention - Cross-functional alignment: E-commerce strategy execution - Agile problem solving: High-volume campaign delivery 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 Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking. If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us! Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply. ## About takealot.com ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Takealot.com is South Africa's largest online retailer, offering millions of products across 30+ categories through a marketplace and owned logistics network. - **Entity Type**: Private (division of Takealot Group, majority-owned by Naspers; total funding $1.2B across multiple rounds) - **Headquarters**: Cape Town, South Africa - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Kim Reid ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: E-commerce / Online Retail - Target customers: B2C consumers across South Africa, plus B2B services for 12,000+ marketplace sellers - Mission or purpose: "Changing lives in South Africa for the better through e-commerce." ## Products & Services - **Takealot.com Marketplace**: Core e-commerce platform offering millions of products from local and international brands, with options for delivery or collection at 100+ Pickup Points (including 30+ Pick n Pay locations). - **Mr D**: On-demand food delivery service (part of Takealot Group). - **Superbalist.com**: Online fashion and homeware retailer (part of Takealot Group). - **TakealotMORE**: Membership/loyalty program offering perks and faster delivery. - **Seller CAPITAL**: Funding program for marketplace sellers. - **Pickup Points**: Nationwide network for order collection, including in-store Pick n Pay locations. - **Exclusive Brands**: George & Mason, Getup, Campground, Fire Up. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Takealot Group is private, majority-owned by Naspers) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $808M (2024) for takealot.com; takealot.com became profitable in 2024; Takealot Group targets group profitability by 2026. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Naspers (majority owner, 96% stake), Tiger Global Management (early investor), Pick n Pay (pickup point partner) - **Growth Signals**: +18% employee headcount growth YoY (2,162 employees); 105 active job postings (+114% YoY); 288,225 LinkedIn followers (+18.9% YoY); operates in 13 countries ## Competitive Advantages - Largest e-commerce platform in Africa with a vast product selection and owned logistics network (Mr D) enabling fast delivery. - Extensive physical infrastructure: 100+ Pickup Points integrated into grocery stores, reducing last-mile costs. - Exclusive financial tools for sellers (Seller CAPITAL) that lock in marketplace loyalty. - Strong parent company backing (Naspers) providing capital and strategic support. ## Strategic Focus - Achieving group profitability by 2026 after takealot.com's 2024 profit milestone. - Expanding the marketplace ecosystem with more sellers and exclusive brands. - Deepening customer loyalty through TakealotMORE membership and convenient Pickup Points. - Investing in technology and supply chain automation to improve efficiency. ## Why Work Here - Culture values: "Customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, deliver results fast, achieve more together." - Engineering roles available in Cape Town and Johannesburg, with a focus on Java, Python, Scala, and logistics tech. - Hybrid/remote policy not explicitly stated; roles are based in South Africa. - Notable perks: Opportunity to work on Africa's largest e-commerce platform, exposure to high-scale logistics and marketplace systems, and a diverse, trust-based environment. - Employer rating: 3.2/5 (422 reviews) – strengths in culture (3.4) and career (3.3), but compensation rated lower (2.4). ## Sources 1. [Takealot Group – About Takealot.com](https://takealotgroup.com/takealot-com/) 2. [Takealot Group – Our Story](https://takealotgroup.com/) 3. [Takealot.com LinkedIn](https://za.linkedin.com/company/takealot) 4. [Takealot.com Careers (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom) 5. 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