Affiliate Program Manager

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.takealot.com/">takealot.com</a>, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented </span><strong>Affiliate Program Manager</strong> to join our Marketing team in Cape Town.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>This position reports to the </strong>Head of Performance and Projects</p>
<p><strong>Your responsibilities will include:</strong></p>
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<li>Program Strategy & Revenue Growth: Define, execute, and scale Takealot’s affiliate roadmap to meet quarterly customer acquisition and revenue targets.</li>
<li>Performance 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).</li>
<li>Partner & Publisher Management: Onboard, engage, and manage relationships with affiliates, content sites, referral partners, and influencer/social networks to drive high-converting traffic.</li>
<li>Data 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.</li>
<li>Platform Operations: Oversee day-to-day operations on our affiliate tracking platform, including tracking setup, link generation, creative asset deployment, and publisher payout management.</li>
<li>Quality & Brand Safety: Monitor affiliate traffic for quality control. Implement brand safety rules and monitor platforms to guard against fraudulent activity or policy violations.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Qualification & Experience:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Digital Media, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related field.</li>
<li>Experience: 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).</li>
<li>Platform Experience: Hands-on experience working directly with an affiliate management or partner tracking platform).</li>
<li>Performance Mindset: Proven ability to manage performance budgets, run A/B campaign tests, and analyze digital conversion funnels to drive positive ROI.</li>
<li>Analytical Skills: Intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in Google Analytics (GA4) and Excel/Google Sheets; comfortable working with large datasets to pull actionable campaign insights.</li>
<li>Communication & Negotiation: Strong communication and relationship-building skills with a track record of negotiating placements or partnership deals.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Minimum Required Competencies:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Affiliate/Partner Platform Operations: Direct, practical experience navigating and managing an affiliate or partner tracking SaaS platform (e.g., Impact.com, PartnerStack, CJ, Everflow).</li>
<li>Web Analytics Proficiency: Competency in tracking conversion funnels, attribution, UTM tracking, and user behavior via platforms like Google Analytics 4 (GA4).</li>
<li>Data Manipulation & Reporting: Advanced capability in Excel / Google Sheets (pivot tables, complex formulas, data transformation) to calculate key metrics like CPA, AOV, ROAS, and CAC.</li>
<li>Performance Campaign Execution: Hands-on ability to plan, launch, A/B test, and optimize performance marketing campaigns end-to-end.</li>
<li>Partner & Channel Management: Skills in onboarding, managing, and negotiating commercial agreements or commission tiers with traffic partners, digital publishers, or creators.</li>
<li>Traffic & Conversion Optimization: Ability to monitor referral traffic mechanics, identify drop-offs in the funnel, and drive conversion rate optimization (CRO).</li>
<li>Traffic Quality & Brand Safety Controls: Knowledge of digital ad compliance, with the ability to identify low-quality referral traffic, policy violations, or ad-fraud risks.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Attributes Required</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">:</span></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience working on large-scale, catalogue-driven ecommerce platforms.</li>
<li>Affiliate platform management: System setup and tracking</li>
<li>Performance campaign execution: Planning, launching, optimizing</li>
<li>Data & GA4 analysis: Excel reporting, tracking ROAS</li>
<li>Partner negotiation: Commission structures and placements</li>
<li>Conversion optimization: A/B testing and funnel fixes</li>
<li>Traffic quality control: Compliance and fraud prevention</li>
<li>Cross-functional alignment: E-commerce strategy execution</li>
<li>Agile problem solving: High-volume campaign delivery</li>
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<p><strong>The Environment</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We are short on ego and high on output. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We love what we do and what we are creating</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></li>
<li>We seek to employ an <strong>Extra Ordinary Mind </strong>who <span style="font-weight: 400;">is </span>Smart, has Integrity, <span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span>is Hardworking. </li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you meet the above you are an </span><strong>Extraordinary Mind </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">so come and join us! </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></strong></p>