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# Performance Campaign Manager at takealot.com

- **Company:** takealot.com
- **Location:** Cape Town, South Africa
- **Posted:** 2026-02-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/7588574

## Job description

[takealot.com](http://takealot.com), a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Performance Campaign Manager to join our Retail Media team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people to join us.  We offer market-related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t get bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This role will focus on maximizing the effectiveness of advertising campaigns to drive growth and amplify the brand’s presence across Takealot. The role is to plan, manage, and execute performance marketing campaigns to maximise investment yield.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Campaign Strategy & Execution: Ensure effective campaign development/ planning, campaign launch, and optimization of programmatic campaigns, against set targets. (Clear focus on incremental sales, customer acquisition and increased brand visibility to improve advertising performance.)
- Manage the full campaign life cycle from the targeting strategy development, to campaign completion and reporting. (Own the end-to-end process)
- Data-Driven Optimization: Use analytics to deliver daily monitoring of campaign performance and continuously optimize for key metrics, including reach, ROAS, and conversion rates.
- Implement data-backed strategies to enhance campaign performance.
- Budget Management: Oversee budgets for programmatic (DSP) campaigns, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and maintaining cost efficiency for clients.
- Audience Segmentation: Leverage TALs audience data and custom segments to precisely target and engage with relevant audiences across the funnel
- Monitor on-schedule delivery of campaigns to target, against a full allocated budget.
- Troubleshoot targeting issues, resolve any traffic issues, and reconcile discrepancies
- Performance Reporting: Present reports on campaign performance, translating complex data into clear meaningful,and actionable insights and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with their broader TAL teams to ensure alignment and leverage opportunities for growth
- Marketplace Insights: Stay informed about trends in Retail Media Advertising, with a particular focus on DSP innovations. Identify opportunities to enhance our ad strategy based on market and competitor analysis.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams

Attributes:

- Smart, hard-working, with demonstrable integrity. A passion for online | Digital 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 organised with meticulous attention to detail
- Ability multitask and to 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
- A strong working knowledge of Excel / Google Sheets and Microsoft Office
- Proficient in numeracy and analytical, recommendation for reporting and iterative improvements in objectives achieving efficiencies and efficacy for campaigns

Qualifications and Experience:

- Diploma in or advanced certificate in Media, Marketing or Digital advertising
- At least 3+ years of experience in digital campaign management experience with eCommerce performance optimisation outcomes.
- Plan, build and optimising programmatic campaigns to launch campaigns on time, reach campaign targets, spend full budgets, and provide insightful reporting insights.
- Expertise in ROI/ROS/CPC/Bidding, Google Ads as well as other adtech-related, and auction-based platforms working to hard commercial outcomes.
- Preferred experience in Amazon DSP, or any other relevant DSP, and incl. Google Ads
- Client-facing experience with excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to present insights and strategies clearly
- Understanding of CPC, ROI, CPM, ROAS metrics
- Previous programmatic media buying experience working to sales outcomes.(eCommerce)

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 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
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind, so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference

## 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. [Crunchbase-style data from LinkedIn](https://za.linkedin.com/company/takealot) (financials and employee info)

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