Marketing Coordinator (TakealotMORE)

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 if you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This role reports to the Head of TakealotMORE.

Your responsibilities will include:

Administrative support for all TakealotMore Marketing team members including, but not limited to:

• Administration of all competitions and prize-draws (including winner selection prize fulfilment and CPA compliance documentation).
• Ad hoc support for all  TakealotMore team members in coordination of daily duties and administrative tasks.
• Daily monitoring & trafficking of all inbound TakealotMore enquiries from Zendesk, Conversocial & Marketing inbox, escalating to relevant team members and responding directly where possible.
• Assist with administrative tasks around broadsheets.
• Send weekly TakealotMore Activity Updates.
• Partnership and sponsorship assistance.
• Creating and management of coupons using the coupon tool.
• Vouchers (request & issue).
• Event co-ordination and management.
• Prepare marketing reports and presentations by collecting, analysing, and summarising all applicable data.
• Keep promotional materials ready by coordinating requirements with the graphics department; inventory stock; placing orders; verifying receipt.
• Assist the Brand team with: 

• • Competition agreements for Radio ads.
  • Sourcing products for TV ads.
  • Influencer campaigns

• Assist Traffic Manager with: 

• Creating Asana tasks for promo’s, newsletter, weekly carousels, flyouts.
• Following up on creatives.
• Building and maintaining landing pages

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 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
• The ability to be reactive and adaptability 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 or related
• 1-2 years’ experience as a Promotions/Marketing Coordinator or in a similar role
• Internship experience in a Retail / Marketing role desirable
• A 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 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.