Head of Supplier Business at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:

• Build & lead a team of Supplier Business Managers to ensure optimum income is derived from Takealot trading terms
• Establish productive, professional relationships with key suppliers and cross functional divisions focused toward the business strategy
• Negotiate and recover maximum income from trading terms in line with the business strategy
• Key understanding of retail landscape and develop programs and opportunities to increase supplier income
• Key central business resource who provides support and knowledge for the retail divisions and suppliers
• Lead key supplier (current & future) rebate and trading term negotiations
• Review all vendor contracts and assess their earning potential against category benchmarks
• Ensure all trading terms are category aligned and fit within the strategy
• Build a framework and institutionalize processes and work streams that yield maximum income
• Strict adherence to all compliance & legislative requirements
• Manage, train and build a team of highly effective negotiators
• Deliver income recoveries that meet and exceed the business plan

Attributes required:

• Smart, analytical thinker with strong numerical skills
• Innovative, creative individual unafraid to take risks, you ask difficult questions and challenge status quo
• Energetic, dynamic individual - can-do attitude, self-motivated, assertive & resilient
• Results oriented - Proven track record of execution and delivering exceptional results
• Proven experience and passion for working across functions and with c-level leaders, synthesizing multiple points of view and owning a coherent action plan, all while negotiating and influencing others
• Strong decision making skills
• Experience in building, managing and developing teams

Qualifications and Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in retail/ wholesale environment
• 5+ years managerial experience
• Bachelor’s degree required (Supply chain / Finance or Business degree advantageous)
• Strong competency in analytical tools 

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, it’s all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.