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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.\nThis position reports to the Head of Performance and Projects\nYour responsibilities will include:\nProgram Strategy & Revenue Growth: Define, execute, and scale Takealot’s affiliate roadmap to meet quarterly customer acquisition and revenue targets.\nPerformance 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).\nPartner & Publisher Management: Onboard, engage, and manage relationships with affiliates, content sites, referral partners, and influencer/social networks to drive high-converting traffic.\nData 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.\nPlatform Operations: Oversee day-to-day operations on our affiliate tracking platform, including tracking setup, link generation, creative asset deployment, and publisher payout management.\nQuality & Brand Safety: Monitor affiliate traffic for quality control. Implement brand safety rules and monitor platforms to guard against fraudulent activity or policy violations.\nQualification & Experience:\nDiploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Digital Media, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related field.\nExperience: 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).\nPlatform Experience: Hands-on experience working directly with an affiliate management or partner tracking platform).\nPerformance Mindset: Proven ability to manage performance budgets, run A/B campaign tests, and analyze digital conversion funnels to drive positive ROI.\nAnalytical Skills: Intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in Google Analytics (GA4) and Excel/Google Sheets; comfortable working with large datasets to pull actionable campaign insights.\nCommunication & Negotiation: Strong communication and relationship-building skills with a track record of negotiating placements or partnership deals.\nMinimum Required Competencies:\nAffiliate/Partner Platform Operations: Direct, practical experience navigating and managing an affiliate or partner tracking SaaS platform (e.g., Impact.com, PartnerStack, CJ, Everflow).\nWeb Analytics Proficiency: Competency in tracking conversion funnels, attribution, UTM tracking, and user behavior via platforms like Google Analytics 4 (GA4).\nData Manipulation & Reporting: Advanced capability in Excel / Google Sheets (pivot tables, complex formulas, data transformation) to calculate key metrics like CPA, AOV, ROAS, and CAC.\nPerformance Campaign Execution: Hands-on ability to plan, launch, A/B test, and optimize performance marketing campaigns end-to-end.\nPartner & Channel Management: Skills in onboarding, managing, and negotiating commercial agreements or commission tiers with traffic partners, digital publishers, or creators.\nTraffic & Conversion Optimization: Ability to monitor referral traffic mechanics, identify drop-offs in the funnel, and drive conversion rate optimization (CRO).\nTraffic Quality & Brand Safety Controls: Knowledge of digital ad compliance, with the ability to identify low-quality referral traffic, policy violations, or ad-fraud risks.\nAttributes Required:\nExperience working on large-scale, catalogue-driven ecommerce platforms.\nAffiliate platform management: System setup and tracking\nPerformance campaign execution: Planning, launching, optimizing\nData & GA4 analysis: Excel reporting, tracking ROAS\nPartner negotiation: Commission structures and placements\nConversion optimization: A/B testing and funnel fixes\nTraffic quality control: Compliance and fraud prevention\nCross-functional alignment: E-commerce strategy execution\nAgile problem solving: High-volume campaign delivery\nThe Environment: \ntakealot.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. \nWe 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. \nWe are short on ego and high on output. \nWe are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all. \nWe love what we do and what we are creating. \nWe seek to employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who is Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking. \nIf you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us! \nTakealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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