Copywriter & Content Producer

Responsibilities

• Plan, write, and edit high-volume content, managing concept through execution while ensuring alignment with Takealot’s Marketing, Marketplace, and Content Strategy.
• Write and adapt compelling copies for a range of channels, ensuring clarity, emotional resonance, and on-brand storytelling.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Takealot Marketplace teams to ideate and execute strong creative concepts that bring on-brand campaigns to life.
• 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.
• Measure, analyse, and report on content performance to refine tone, messaging, and creative direction — ensuring future content is data-led and impactful.
• Understand and respond to creative and marketing briefs to effectively plan and brief collaborators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification in Communications, Copywriting, English Language or related degree.

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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