[Hiring] Retail Media Solutions Manager @ShopriteX

Role Description

The Retail Media Solutions Manager owns the strategy, roadmap, growth, and execution of the retail media product portfolio within the Rainmaker Tribe in ShopriteX. The role builds experiences that satisfy and delight customers while improving advertiser outcomes, supporting client acquisition and retention, and scaling retail media revenue. It carries end-to-end accountability for a medium- to high-complexity, high-impact, and high-visibility portfolio, from discovery and benefit hypotheses through delivery, launch, and ongoing optimisation.

The portfolio spans:

• Digital media
• In-store media
• EPOS (electronic Point of Sale) media (till slip)
• Campaign management
• Reporting
• Data collaboration capabilities that connect the retail media network

Digital product responsibilities include:

• Ad serving
• Campaign management
• Audience targeting
• Measurement and reporting integrations across relevant mobile app and web touchpoints

Working with Product Managers, Product Owners, UX, engineering, analytics, growth, and business teams, the role maximises value from advertising tooling, strengthens measurement transparency, and balances commercial growth with a consistent customer experience.

Qualifications

• Retail media, performance marketing, or retail experience; exposure to the African digital market and customers.
• Experience with retail media and advertising tools such as Google Ad Manager, DV360, Google Ads, Meta Ads, Advendio, and Insider, or equivalent platforms.
• Degree in Business, IT, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Marketing, or another relevant field.
• 8+ years' experience in a lead product management role, with proven success launching complex features and translating strategy into delivered products; relevant experience in Retail Media technology, eCommerce, or mobile applications.
• Experience as a Product Manager and Product Owner and leading an agile team, with a proven ability to formulate detailed roadmaps and execute them.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, UX/design, and business stakeholders to deliver complex cross-functional product initiatives.
• Strong commercial acumen and business analysis skills in digitally led business development, with an understanding of retail media and advertiser outcomes.
• Experience analysing data and making data-driven product decisions; strong understanding of conversion rate optimisation, funnel analysis, and customer acquisition and retention.
• Understanding of the mobile app development cycle, software development processes, technology stacks, databases, APIs, and advertising/analytics integrations.
• Customer, user, and loyalty experience; knowledge of applicable legal compliance, including POPIA and requirements relevant to customer data and advertising.
• Strong project management and communication skills, structured thinking, and attention to detail; ability to manage competing priorities and deliver in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• Knowledge & Expertise
• User and Customer Knowledge
• Data Knowledge
• Industry and Domain Knowledge
• Technical understanding
• Business and Company Knowledge
• Product Operational Knowledge
• Interpersonal & Leadership Skills
• Team Collaboration
• Stakeholder Management Skills
• Influencing Skills
• Leadership Skills
• Communication Skills
• Product Strategising

Benefits

• Our Group and all its operating companies is committed to creating, embracing, and preserving a diverse workplace that values the unique talents, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities that enrich our organisation.
• A place where everyone matters and feels included.
• We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally.