Mr D - Senior Merchandising Associate at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:

• Own merchandising and promotional strategy across the Mr D On-Demand vertical
• Drive merchandising with a focus on maximising partner discoverability and conversion
• Create and execute on a Merchandising Calendar attributing measures of success for all campaigns
• Maximise the usage of the Mr D app merchandising inventory and report back on successes and learnings
• Run cross departmental sessions that focus on best practice partner curation
• Understand and report on the commercial impact of merchandising initiatives
• Manage merchandising team, planning sessions and calendars
• Work closely with the advertising teams to ensure execution of booked campaigns
• Continuously refine Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to enhance team productivity, eliminate redundancies, and create streamlined, scalable merchandising processes
• Assist and partner with the product team to identify and enhance merchandising features and optimize existing systems to improve operational efficiency and enhance the customer shopping experience
• Collaborate with the BI team to develop new merchandising metrics and improve data accessibility to enable evidence-based decisions for merchandising initiatives and inventory optimization

Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in an Ecommerce Marketplace 
• Environment/Online B2B or Retail
• A minimum of 1-2 years leading a team (beneficial)