Account Manager - Retail Media

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Company

hirify.global is a South African online retailer building a leading e-commerce company in Africa.

What you will do

• Manage and grow relationships with brands, sellers, agencies, and non-retail advertisers.
• Attract new advertising clients and consistently achieve or exceed sales targets.
• Design, customize, coordinate, and implement retail media campaigns across Takealot Group advertising inventory.
• Develop campaign proposals, rate cards, pitch decks, and client-specific advertising solutions.
• Coordinate campaign assets, marketing-calendar briefs, execution timelines, billing, payments, tracking, and reporting.
• Act as a strategic partner by applying self-service, managed-service, and programmatic buying models to client business goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or Advanced Diploma; alternatively, at least 6 years of account management experience or project-based exposure.
• At least 3 years of experience in advertising sales and individual-contributor account management.
• Experience in digital marketing, advertising, external sales, and the digital advertising landscape.
• Strong communication, presentation, campaign proposal, account management, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage high-value accounts, influence cross-functional teams, and achieve sales targets.
• E-commerce experience is advantageous.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, dynamic, customer-centric environment focused on building e-commerce in Africa.
• Emphasis on ownership, teamwork, direct feedback, innovation, and practical execution.
• Data-informed, collaborative, curious, and solution-oriented working style.
• Market-related benefits and a challenging work environment.
• Equal opportunity employer giving preference to previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities.