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Talent Sam

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11 - 50 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Talent Sam is a company that specializes in recruitment and HR services, focusing on providing highly-skilled, English-speaking talent from South Africa. They streamline the hiring process by vetting and sourcing candidates, handling employment contracts, and managing payroll, taxes, and compliance. Talent Sam acts as the employer of record, making international hiring simple and cost-effective. They cater to a variety of industries, including ecommerce, startups, marketing, sales, finance, and healthcare, ensuring fast turnaround and comprehensive management for their clients.

📋 Description

• Develop strategic media recommendations for brands—from small to large companies—across a variety of verticals • Build client-facing sales decks and media proposals, including channel rationale, audience strategy, budget allocation, and measurement frameworks • Create and manage IOs, ensuring accuracy across specs, budgeting, flighting, and deliverables • Partner with in-platform channel specialists (Paid Social, Google Ads, Programmatic) to translate strategy into scalable tactical plans • Support CPG/Retail Media planning (Walmart Connect, Amazon Ads, Instacart, Target Roundel) as needed/when applicable • Gather and synthesize audience, competitor, industry, and market insights, leveraging tools such as GWI, Dstillery, and Pathmatics • Apply up-to-date media trends and best practices (privacy changes, platform shifts, creative trends, measurement evolution) to proposals • Support proposal development across a wide range of budgets ($5K–$250K+ per month) and objectives (awareness through performance) • Contribute to measurement and reporting thinking, including KPI selection, test design, and learning agendas • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure decks are visually polished, on-brand, and persuasive • Maintain internal documentation, templates, and operational workflows to improve team efficiency • Provide optimization recommendations to existing clients using learnings from campaign performance

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (required) • 3+ years of experience in advertising/media (agency experience required) • Proven experience building advertising strategies and media plans mainly for B2C clients across different company sizes • Experience working with IOs and/or media buying documentation workflows • Experience managing recommendations for varied budgets ($5K–$100K+ monthly) with clear rationale on allocation, phasing, and expected outcomes • Strong research capabilities: able to pull, interpret, and synthesize audience/competitive insights using tools like GWI, Dstillery, Bombora, Pathmatics, etc. • Deck-building and storytelling expertise (structure, narrative flow, visuals, and executive-level clarity) • Comfort with basic data analysis (pulling insights from performance data, identifying trends, sanity-checking metrics) • Proficient in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word); strong Excel fundamentals a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development