Copywriter & Content Producer

takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Copywriter and Content Producer 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 Content Production Manager

Purpose of the role:

To create compelling and persuasive content, including social marketing, performance marketing, platform copy, and more, to engage audiences and convey a brand's message or product effectively. They are required to be an exceptional writer, producer and conceptual thinker, with expertise enabling them to deliver social media, video, audio (incl. podcasts), visual, and written content, that pushes the boundaries and creates talkability, online and offline.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Writing, developing, producing and delivering multi-channel content and campaigns, across video, audio, visual and written mediums, to engage a diverse range of audiences, aligned with Takealot’s brand marketing strategies and initiatives and overarching strategic priorities

• Researching and keeping the team abreast of competitor trends and best practices with regards to communications

• Measure and track engagement with content and use results and data to strategically inform future efforts and outputs

• Must be able to grasp Marketing and/or Creative briefs, from ATL campaigns to CRM initiatives and Marketplace, and work with the team to craft compelling content that brings the idea to life

• Undertake content planning and effectively brief collaborators and additional creative team members as required

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification in communications, copywriting, English language or related degree

• A minimum of 5 years working in eCommerce/E-learning//content production and/or related digital communications

• Top-of-the-class content creation, communication and conceptual copywriting skills

• Razor-sharp and lightning-quick proof-reading accuracy with an obsessive eye for detail

• Ability to create different types of content consistently depending on its purpose

• Capability to present creative ideas succinctly (written & verbal)

• A grounding in Marketing and Communication principles

• Highly organised and efficient, can work towards and meet tight deadlines

• Creatively minded with an ability to craft numerous campaigns across multiple departments

• Results-oriented with a can-do attitude

• High energy with a thirst for knowledge and willingness to learn

• A passion for delivering outstanding customer experiences

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

• Experience in writing for online, blogging & social media (advantageous)

• Experience in creating content for Marketplace platforms (advantageous)

• Bi-lingual in English / Afrikaans (advantageous)

Attributes Required:

• Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail and a well-structured thought process

• Ability to multi-task and to meet tight deadlines

• Very strong interpersonal skills and experience in marshalling cross-departmental resources towards daily goals and objectives

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, its 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 Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking.

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.