Lead Strategist – E-Commerce
Webrepublic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Cape Town • 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Senior
About the role
- develop integrated e-commerce strategies for our clients
- pursue a cross-channel, customer-centric approach to drive client success by focusing on business drivers and KPIs
- Monitoring market trends and competitor strategies
- Working on pitches and cooperating with key stakeholders within the agency to create integrated e-commerce strategies that offer added value to clients
- Developing, defining, training, and standardising e-commerce services
- Managing important partnerships
- Providing expert guidance to the Service Ambassadors
- Jointly developing new service opportunities with Service Ambassadors
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in the e-commerce sector
- proven expertise in channels and platforms such as SEM, Social Commerce, UX & Conversion Rate Optimisation, Feed Management, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing, and Marketplace Optimisation
- Ability to translate complex technical briefings, strategies, and insights into clear, compelling, and simple messages understandable to stakeholders with varying levels of expertise
- Demonstrate a strong passion for technical advancements in e-commerce
- Enjoy collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders
- Proficient in understanding and translating client business objectives into concrete e-commerce goals
- Familiar with target group attitudes, behaviours, and perceptions through the effective use of market data, research, and customer data
- Fluent in English, fluent in German is a plus
- Hold a degree or further education in Marketing, Communication, Business, or a comparable field
Benefits
- a dynamic work environment fostering personal growth and development
- opportunities to work on exciting projects with leading global brands
- learning from Subject Matter Experts across all digital marketing disciplines
- flat hierarchies and short decision paths
- being part of a young, dynamic, and international team
- exposure to disciplines beyond your own skill set
- a vibrant office space in Cape Town and a flexible work environment (hybrid work)
- a competitive compensation package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
e-commerce strategiesSEMSocial CommerceUXConversion Rate OptimisationFeed ManagementAffiliate MarketingEmail MarketingMarketplace Optimisation
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingpassion for technical advancements