Junior Paid Per Click Manager - Takealot



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takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a Junior PPC 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


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Your responsibilities will include:

  • Manage, Run, Optimize and Report back on Paid Advertising channels on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to the internal and external stakeholders,  these include but are not limited to: 
    • SEM (Google Search & Google Shopping) 
    • Display & Video 360 (Acquisition & Remarketing) 
    • App Install & App Engagement (Acquisition & Retention) 
    • Video (YouTube) 
  • Managing paid advertising budgets optimally to achieve business KPI’s
  • Assist business departments with paid advertising requirements, reporting, analysis and strategies
  • Help other business departments understand and how best to implement their digital advertising requests.
  • Keep up to date of changes in the digital industry and setting up tests to implement and determine the viability of these new changes on our internal paid advertising.
  • Assist the Senior PPC Campaign Manager with day-to-day campaign management

Requirements

Attributes Required:

  • Strong Programmatic Buying experience beneficial
  • Native/Content advertising (Beneficial)
  • Attention to detail
  • Solution Orientated
  • Good communication skills
  • To work under pressure in a time sensitive environment
  • To work with all levels of management


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Qualification & Experience:

  • A Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in Marketing, Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science
  • 1-2 years’ experience in a PPC position
  • Experience on the following platforms:
    • Google Ads (Required) - Across App, Display, Search, and Shopping
    • Google Analytics (Beneficial) - Web + App 
    • Google Marketing Platform ( Beneficial) - SA360, DV360, Campaign Manager
    • Facebook Business (Beneficial) - Facebook and Instagram
    • Mobile App Marketing (Beneficial) - App Acquisition and Retention

The Environment:

  • Takelot.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, collaborate to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas about how 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 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 


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  • 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. 
  • is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING 



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