Affiliate Program Manager

takealot.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is seeking an Affiliate Program Manager to join our Marketing team in Cape Town. You will define and scale our affiliate roadmap to drive customer acquisition and revenue.

You will manage end-to-end performance campaigns, onboard and nurture partners, and optimize ROI through data-driven insights. The role requires hands-on platform experience, GA4 proficiency, and strong negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of campaign management experience in digital/performance marketing
• Hands-on experience with affiliate management platforms
• Strong analytics and ROI mindset
• Proficient in GA4 and Excel
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Experience with large-scale ecommerce affiliates

Responsibilities

• Define, execute, and scale affiliate roadmap to meet acquisition and revenue targets
• End-to-end management of performance campaigns with calendar alignment
• Onboard, engage, and manage affiliates, publishers, and influencers
• Daily tracking and ROI optimization of campaigns and payouts
• Oversee affiliate tracking platform operations, link generation, and creative deployment
• Monitor traffic quality and enforce brand safety policies

Skills

Affiliate Marketing

Data Analytics

GA4

Excel

Campaign Management

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field

Tools

Impact.com

PartnerStack

CJ Affiliate

Everflow

Job description

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.