takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Copywriter & 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.
Purpose of the role: The role requires an exceptional content producer and storyteller — someone who can conceptualise, write and edit sharp, scroll-stopping content for Takealot Marketplace. They will be responsible for communicating the voice, tone, and creative consistency of Takealot while producing content that drives measurable engagement, talkability, and conversion across platforms where Takealot’s audience lives.
This position reports to the Content Production Manager
Your responsibilities will include:
- Marketing Content: Plan, write, and edit high-volume content, managing concept through execution while ensuring alignment with Takealot’s Marketing, Marketplace, and Content Strategy.
- Copywriting Excellence: Write and adapt compelling copies for a range of channels, ensuring clarity, emotional resonance, and on-brand storytelling.
- Creative Concept Development: Collaborate with Marketing and Takealot Marketplace teams to ideate and execute strong creative concepts that bring on-brand campaigns to life.
- Research & Insights: Stay on the pulse of South African content marketing trends, audience behaviour, and competitor activity to strengthen creative outputs and keep content relevant and talk worthy.
- Performance & Optimisation: Measure, analyse, and report on content performance to refine tone, messaging, and creative direction — ensuring future content is data-led and impactful.
- Collaboration & Brief Management: Understand and respond to creative and marketing briefs to effectively plan and brief collaborators.
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.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in Communications, Copywriting, English Language, or a related field
- At least 5 years of experience in eCommerce, e-learning, content production, digital communications, or a related field
- Strong copywriting, editing, storytelling, and content production skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet tight deadlines
- Strong interpersonal and cross-departmental collaboration skills
takealot.com Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about takealot.com and has not been reviewed or approved by takealot.com.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered aligned with qualifications in select office and tech functions. This indicates pockets where compensation matches role expectations despite broader variability.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Employee discounts and company-supported learning opportunities are available to some permanent staff. These perks add non-cash value that can help offset leaner core benefits in certain teams.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid sick leave, holidays, and flexible scheduling appear in some roles. Such time-off and flexibility elements contribute positively where offered.
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What We Do
Takealot.com is the leading eCommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative eCommerce retailers on the African continent. Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that our customer comes first. Need help or have a question? Reach out to us via our Help Center for assistance https://www.takealot.com/help-centre Our focus is dedicated to improving the customer experience, from the moment they arrive on our website to the moment they receive their order. By aligning ourselves to this philosophy, we believe Takealot will be the #1 shopping destination across Africa.
