Marketing & Advertising

Junior Media Buyer

Kontak Recruitment·Western Cape, south-africa·Full Time·Internship
Marketing & AdvertisingFull TimeInternship
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  • Grow your paid media career working across established international DTC e-commerce pet food brands.
  • Manage and optimise Meta, Google and TikTok campaigns while developing your skills in creative testing, funnel optimisation, performance analysis and AI-driven marketing.

Minimum Requirements:

  • Degree in Marketing, Business or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 2 years' experience in paid media, media buying or performance marketing within DTC or e-commerce brands where revenue growth depended on analytical decisions
  • Strong knowledge of Google Ads, Meta Ads and TikTok Ads
  • Experience with A/B testing and performance optimisation
  • Some experience using AI tools
  • Strong understanding of performance metrics including ROAS, CAC and LTV
  • Strong organisational and time management skills
  • Detail-oriented and comfortable working with advertising platform interfaces
  • Able to manage multiple campaigns and deadlines consistently
  • Able to work collaboratively with the Performance Marketing Manager and wider team
  • Willing to learn and apply new AI tools within daily performance marketing activities
  • Available to work UK-aligned working hours

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Launch and optimise paid advertising campaigns across Meta, including Facebook and Instagram, Google Ads and TikTok
  • Monitor campaign performance daily and adjust bids to optimise against target metrics
  • Manage budget pacing to ensure optimal monthly spend
  • Manage audience refreshes and segment adjustments
  • Monitor campaigns for technical issues and performance anomalies
  • Use performance insights to develop new advertising angles and creative testing hypotheses
  • Build new advertising variants for the creative testing programme
  • Set up A/B test structures and launch campaign variants according to guidelines
  • Monitor creative testing performance and identify winning creatives and performance patterns
  • Improve full-funnel conversion rates through A/B and multivariate testing
  • Design, test and scale high-converting funnels across multiple brands, markets and products
  • Prepare routine weekly and monthly performance reports
  • Track KPIs against targets and flag performance changes or anomalies
  • Compile performance data for reviews and strategic planning
  • Identify and escalate campaign issues to the Performance Marketing Manager
  • Assist with troubleshooting campaign performance issues and advertising policy violations
  • Use AI to analyse campaign performance data, identify optimisation opportunities and generate reporting insights
  • Stay up to date with AI tools relevant to performance marketing

Key skills

Bachelors

At a glance

Company

Kontak Recruitment

Location

Western Cape, south-africa

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

October 19, 2026