Affiliate Program Manager

takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Affiliate Program Manager to join our Marketing 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 Head of Performance and Projects

Your responsibilities will include

• Program Strategy & Revenue Growth: Define, execute, and scale Takealot’s affiliate roadmap to meet quarterly customer acquisition and revenue targets.
• 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).
• Partner & Publisher Management: Onboard, engage, and manage relationships with affiliates, content sites, referral partners, and influencer/social networks to drive high-converting traffic.
• 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.
• Platform Operations: Oversee day-to-day operations on our affiliate tracking platform, including tracking setup, link generation, creative asset deployment, and publisher payout management.
• Quality & Brand Safety: Monitor affiliate traffic for quality control. Implement brand safety rules and monitor platforms to guard against fraudulent activity or policy violations.

Qualification & Experience

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Digital Media, Commerce, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 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).
• Platform Experience: Hands-on experience working directly with an affiliate management or partner tracking platform).
• Performance Mindset: Proven ability to manage performance budgets, run A/B campaign tests, and analyze digital conversion funnels to drive positive ROI.
• Analytical Skills: Intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in Google Analytics (GA4) and Excel/Google Sheets; comfortable working with large datasets to pull actionable campaign insights.
• Communication & Negotiation: Strong communication and relationship-building skills with a track record of negotiating placements or partnership deals.

Minimum Required Competencies

• Affiliate/Partner Platform Operations: Direct, practical experience navigating and managing an affiliate or partner tracking SaaS platform (e.g., Impact.com, PartnerStack, CJ, Everflow).
• Web Analytics Proficiency: Competency in tracking conversion funnels, attribution, UTM tracking, and user behavior via platforms like Google Analytics 4 (GA4).
• 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.
• Performance Campaign Execution: Hands-on ability to plan, launch, A/B test, and optimize performance marketing campaigns end-to-end.
• Partner & Channel Management: Skills in onboarding, managing, and negotiating commercial agreements or commission tiers with traffic partners, digital publishers, or creators.
• Traffic & Conversion Optimization: Ability to monitor referral traffic mechanics, identify drop-offs in the funnel, and drive conversion rate optimization (CRO).
• 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.

Attributes Required

Experience working on large-scale, catalogue-driven ecommerce platforms.

Affiliate platform management: System setup and tracking

Performance campaign execution: Planning, launching, optimizing

Data & GA4 analysis: Excel reporting, tracking ROAS

Partner negotiation: Commission structures and placements

Conversion optimization: A/B testing and funnel fixes

Traffic quality control: Compliance and fraud prevention

Cross-functional alignment: E-commerce strategy execution

Agile problem solving: High-volume campaign delivery

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.