Partnership Marketing Manager

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Partnership Marketing Manager 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 as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This position reports to the Chief Marketing Officer.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop Partnership Strategy: Collaborate with the marketing team to develop a comprehensive partnership strategy aligned with the marketing and business objectives.
• Identify and Evaluate Partnership Opportunities: Research and identify potential partnership opportunities. Evaluate partnerships based on strategic fit, audience alignment, and potential impact
• Negotiate Partnership Agreements: Lead negotiations with potential partners to establish mutually beneficial partnership agreements, campaign agreements and T&Cs. Define partnership terms, including goals, objectives, deliverables, and commercials.
• Manage Partnership Relationships: Cultivate strong relationships with strategic partners. Serve as the main point of contact for partners, ensuring effective communication and collaboration throughout the partnership and campaign lifecycle.
• Collaborate on Marketing Campaigns: Work closely with marketing teams to integrate partnership initiatives into marketing campaigns and partner campaigns. Develop briefs for creative and compelling marketing campaigns that leverage partner and internal assets and resources to drive partner campaign objectives.
• Execute Partnership Campaigns: Manage the briefs and execution of partnership campaigns from concept to completion. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless execution and timely delivery of campaign deliverables.
• Track, analyse and report on performance:  Define KPIs and metrics to measure the effectiveness of partnership campaigns. Track performance metrics, analyse internal data, spend, return on campaign metrics, and generate insights to optimise partnership strategies and drive continuous improvement.
• Manage Partnership Budget: Develop and manage the partnership marketing budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and adherence to budget,  co-funding marketing budget and marketing income
• Provide leadership and mentorship to the Partnership team, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting the professional growth and development of the team.
• Operational and Management reporting weekly and monthly
• Keep marketing team informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in Partnership Marketing, and make recommendations for adapting strategies to maintain a competitive edge.

Attributes required:

• Strong negotiation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish and maintain partnerships at all levels.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey ideas and negotiate agreements.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data and insights to drive decision-making and optimize campaign performance.
• Creative thinker with the ability to develop innovative partnership ideas and campaigns.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and effectively manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business administration, or a related field.
• A master's degree is a plus.
• A minimum of 5-7 years marketing & retail experience

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 Extra Ordinary 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