Mr D - CRM Lead

takealot.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Remuneration Package

Prosus Academy access

Birthday leave

Confidential counselling

Free parking

Job summary

Mr D is seeking a CRM Lead to join our Cape Town team. You will design and drive end-to-end CRM strategies across our restaurant, groceries and on‑demand services, leading a high‑performing team and partnering with Product, Data, Engineering and Marketing to deliver personalised, scalable campaigns.

You should be highly analytical, data‑driven and experienced with marketing automation platforms such as Braze and Salesforce.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in CRM or lifecycle marketing roles.
• 2+ years’ experience managing multiple direct reports.
• Proven experience executing multi-channel CRM campaigns (push, email, in-app, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with CRM and MarTech platforms in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute end-to-end CRM strategies with automation-led lifecycle marketing at scale.
• Lead and mentor the CRM team with clear ownership across lifecycle strategy and optimisation.
• Communicate with customers across multiple product offerings (restaurants, groceries, etc.).
• Collaborate with Product, Data, Engineering, Marketing and Merchandising to align CRM strategies with business priorities.
• Lead marketing automation strategy spanning transactional, promotional and brand communications.
• Define KPIs for CRM campaigns and own operational dashboarding and testing roadmaps.
• Translate data and insights into actionable lifecycle strategies for business impact.
• Drive awareness and adoption of TakealotMORE across lifecycle touchpoints.

Skills

CRM lifecycle marketing

Data analysis

Marketing automation

Braze/Salesforce

Executive stakeholder communication

Excel proficiency

Campaign orchestration

Team leadership

Education

Tertiary qualification

Tools

Braze

Salesforce

MarTech platforms

Job description

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented CRM Lead to join our team in Cape Town.

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: Mr D, Takealot.com, and TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Why Join Mr D?

At Mr D, we are passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences through innovation and data-driven strategies. As the CRM Lead/Head of CRM, you will play a critical role in shaping how we engage with our customers, driving growth, and building long-term loyalty. If you thrive in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment and are excited about the opportunity to lead a high-performing team, we’d love to hear from you!

About The Role

The CRM Lead role is pivotal in driving customer engagement, retention, and lifetime value through innovative and data-driven CRM strategies. Reporting to the Head of Customer Growth, you will lead a team of CRM professionals and collaborate across multiple business units to deliver personalised, scalable, and impactful customer lifecycle marketing initiatives.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

CRM Strategy Development & Execution:

• Develop and execute Mr D’s end-to-end CRM strategies, with a strong focus on automation-led lifecycle marketing and personalisation at scale.
• Build and manage a customer‑centric CRM calendar underpinned by always‑on lifecycle automation, reducing reliance on one‑off campaigns.

Team Leadership

• Provide functional and disciplinary leadership to the CRM team, including direct reports and their teams.
• Ensure clear ownership across lifecycle strategy, execution, and optimisation.

Customer‑Centric Communication

• Manage the complexities of communicating to customers about multiple product offerings (restaurants, groceries, and other on‑demand services).
• Ensure relevance, prioritisation, and customer‑centric sequencing in all communications.

Collaboration Across Teams

• Work closely with Product, Data, Engineering, Marketing, and Merchandising teams to align CRM strategies with business priorities.
• Partner with divisions across the Takealot Group ecosystem to design and execute joint CRM initiatives.

Marketing Automation & Technology

• Lead Mr D’s marketing automation strategy, spanning transactional, promotional, and brand communications.
• Be the champion and subject‑matter expert for the Braze CRM platform, driving best practices and capability adoption.
• Design and launch complex, highly automated CRM journeys using Braze and other MarTech tools, leveraging real‑time events, customer attributes, and predictive signals.

Performance Measurement & Optimisation

• Establish, report on, and continuously improve KPIs for all CRM campaigns, focusing on incrementality, retention, frequency, and customer lifetime value.
• Own operational dashboarding for CRM campaigns, tracking performance across first‑time customers, repeat behaviour, and order‑related KPIs.
• Drive experimentation and optimisation through a formal testing roadmap (A/B, multivariate, holdout testing).

Customer Insights & Lifecycle Strategies

• Act as a key partner to the business, translating data and insights into actionable lifecycle strategies.
• Support paid‑for (retail media) communication campaigns for platform partners and non‑endemic brands.

Subscription Programme Integration

• Drive awareness, adoption, and retention of the Takealot Group’s subscription programme, TakealotMORE, embedding it across relevant lifecycle touchpoints.

Skills & Attributes Required

• Highly analytical and data‑driven, with the ability to operate both strategically and hands‑on in a fast‑paced, high‑growth environment.
• Confident and credible communicator with extensive experience presenting to Senior Management and Executives.
• Strong technical aptitude with a deep understanding of enterprise‑level CRM and marketing automation platforms (e.g., Braze, Salesforce), customer insights tools, and statistical analysis techniques.
• Creative and commercially minded, with the ability to design and orchestrate multiple concurrent campaigns across diverse customer segments and business units.
• Strong problem‑solving mindset with a pragmatic, solutions‑oriented approach.
• - Highly organised, detail‑oriented, and comfortable managing complexity and tight delivery timelines.
• Solid background in Marketing Insights, Retail, and/or eCommerce marketing.
• Advanced MS Excel proficiency required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in CRM or lifecycle marketing roles.
• 2+ years’ experience managing multiple direct reports.
• Proven experience executing multi‑channel CRM campaigns (push, email, in‑app, etc.).
• A relevant tertiary qualification.
• Experience working with large, diverse consumer bases at scale.
• Hands‑on experience with CRM and MarTech platforms in complex environments.

Let’s talk about life @ Mr D

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market‑related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
• Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up‑skill with free access to courses on Prosus Academy and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out‑of‑office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want).

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Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference