
Performance Campaign Manager
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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