Current Positions at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitor inventory levels and manage the replenishment process for dark stores to ensure continuous product availability.
• Analyze sales data and inventory reports to forecast needs and adjust inventory levels accordingly.
• Collaborate with store staff to address any concerns and provide support as the primary contact point.
• Develop strategies to minimize waste and markdowns, optimizing inventory turnover.
• Identify potential returns and coordinate with the returns department to process them efficiently.
• Utilize inventory management systems to track stock movements and generate performance reports.
• Participate in cross-functional team meetings to discuss inventory issues and develop solutions.
• Stay informed about market trends and consumer preferences to anticipate demand changes.

 Attributes required:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude, self-motivated.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze sales data, inventory levels, and supply chain logistics to make informed decisions.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively liaise with store staff, suppliers, and internal teams.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to identify issues and develop effective solutions quickly.
• Organizational Skills: Strong capability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in inventory management systems and Microsoft Office Suite/Google Suite, SQL, GBQ.
• Supply Chain Management: Understanding of supply chain processes, including procurement, inventory management, and distribution.
• Retail Operations: Knowledge of retail operations, particularly in an e-commerce or dark store context, including sales forecasting and inventory replenishment. 

 Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum of 1-2 year of experience in inventory management, retail planning, or a similar role
• BCom / BTech (Commercial or similar degree)
• Experienced in working with multiple stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in inventory management software, Microsoft Office Suite/Google Suite, SQL, GBQ.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage, Run, Optimize and Report back on Paid Advertising channels on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to the internal and external stakeholders,  these include but are not limited to: 
• SEM (Google Search & Google Shopping) 
• Display & Video 360 (Acquisition & Remarketing) 
• App Install & App Engagement (Acquisition & Retention) 
• Video (YouTube) 
• Managing paid advertising budgets optimally to achieve business KPI’s
• Assist business departments with paid advertising requirements, reporting, analysis and strategies
• Help other business departments understand and how best to implement their digital advertising requests.
• Keep up to date of changes in the digital industry and setting up tests to implement and determine the viability of these new changes on our internal paid advertising.
• Assist the Senior PPC Campaign Manager with day-to-day campaign management

Attributes Required:

• Strong Programmatic Buying experience beneficial
• Native/Content advertising (Beneficial)
• Attention to detail
• Solution Orientated
• Good communication skills
• To work under pressure in a time sensitive environment
• To work with all levels of management

Qualification & Experience:

• A Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in Marketing, Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science
• 1-2 years’ experience in a PPC position
• Experience on the following platforms:
• Google Ads (Required) - Across App, Display, Search, and Shopping
• Google Analytics (Beneficial) - Web + App 
• Google Marketing Platform ( Beneficial) - SA360, DV360, Campaign Manager
• Facebook Business (Beneficial) - Facebook and Instagram
• Mobile App Marketing (Beneficial) - App Acquisition and Retention

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What You Bring:

Qualifications & Experience:

• Diploma/Degree in Marketing /
• BCom Degree/Operations Management

Essential Skills:

• Computer Literacy
• Strong Attention to Detail

Attributes We Value:

• A confident team player who is not afraid to share their opinion with others
• Creative and energetic
• Hands-on approach
• Confident with strong opinions
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong problem-solving abilities

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Driving the adoption and usage of Takealot’s self-service advertising platform for Sponsored Advertising; by Marketplace sellers
• For self-service, analyse sales metrics and advertising data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Provide sellers with clear, data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Build media plans for top-tier spending sellers and identify opportunities for upselling additional services or advertising solutions.
• Coordinate the collection of assets needed for designers to create and execute campaigns.
• Manage the integration of all booked advertising campaigns into the marketing calendar, ensuring they are communicated to retail marketing managers and delivered effectively and on schedule.
• Supervise billing and payment processes to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Monitor campaign performance through tracking reports, share results with clients, and maintain a portfolio documenting campaign execution.
• Consistently meet and surpass advertising sales targets for the platform
• Assist in development of promotional material and content to encourage adoption of the platform by Marketplace Sellers
• Provide support to Marketplace Account Managers to encourage usage of the advertising platform by their Key Accounts and problem solve issues with these accounts
• Implement new seller acquisition strategies
• Collect feedback from sellers about the advertising platform and provide useful insights to further enhance the platform
• Collaborate with the CRM team to build case studies of the successful usage of the tools and develop material for sellers to drive adoption/retention/growth
• Contribute to the development and/or hosting of educational webinars to train users on performance metrics, insights, and how to drive greater results
• Escalate any operational platform issues to the technical teams to resolve

Attributes Required:

• Smart, hard-working, with demonstrable integrity
• A passion for online, digital marketing and advertising is essential
• Bias towards action and solution-oriented
• A self-starter and fast learner with an active thirst for knowledge
• Willing to take direction and able to work independently, demonstrating initiative
• Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and to meet tight deadlines
• Comfortable working under pressure in a fast-paced environment

Qualification, Competencies & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma
• If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, at least 5 years of account management experience/exposure (through projects or responsibilities) will be required
• 3 years experience in B2B software or advertising sales (account management)
• Digital Marketing, Advertising and Sales experience (must have)
• E-Commerce experience is advantageous but not required
• Demonstrated ability to consistently achieve sales targets
• Strong track record of internal and external relationship management

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Key responsibilities / accountabilities:

• Serve as the primary liaison between internal & external stakeholders, clients and the Takealot Advertising team.
•  Create advertising proposals to drive strategic objectives  
•  Generate campaign cost estimates (CEs) and oversee the invoicing process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in financial transactions.
• Generate regular performance reports, analyse data trends, and provide actionable insights to clients for informed decision-making.
• Collaborate with various creative, analytics, and campaign management teams to ensure seamless campaign execution and alignment with client objectives.
• Provide actionable, insightful reporting to Advertisers with suggestions for future campaigns
•  Achieve and exceed advertising revenue targets
•  Identify opportunities to improve the experience of the advertiser

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Marketing, Advertising or Media, if the Degree/Advanced Diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, 6+ years’ experience in a digital/advertising  account management role in digital marketing, advertising or similar environment with Matric/Diploma.
• Minimum 5 years Advertising Account Management experience or 3 years Digital  Account Management experience.
• Experience in advertising and media sales.
• Strong knowledge of the Digital Advertising & e-commerce landscape.

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Your responsibilities will include:

Assisting with Design Execution:

• Aid in the creation of design elements, following the direction of senior designers.
• Prepare visual presentations by designing art and copy layouts.
• Help Manage project deliverables and deadlines within the scope of design tasks.
• Contribute to the organization and preparation of design resources.

Engaging in Collaboration and Feedback

• Active Team Participation: Share ideas and feedback in meetings.
• Feedback Implementation: Incorporate feedback into design revisions quickly

Focusing on Skill Development:

• Continuous Learning: Seek out learning opportunities and stay up-to-date with trends.
• Regular Practice: Experiment with and refine design skills through regular practice.

Attributes required:

• Design Software Skills: Basic to intermediate knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Core Design Principles: Understanding of color theory, typography, and layout.
• Digital & Print Projects: Initial experience with a variety of design mediums.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to work well in teams and embrace feedback.
• Portfolio Development: Beginning to curate a diverse portfolio showcasing creativity and skill.
• Eager Learner: Quickly absorbs new skills and is always keen to learn.
• Creative Problem Solver: Offers innovative ideas early in their career.
• Resilient: Uses challenges and feedback as opportunities to grow.
• Collaborative: Actively contributes to and learns from team efforts.

 Qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant Bachelor Degree or Diploma in Graphic Design
• 0-3 years’ work experience - Must have proven internship as a designer at an advertising or design agency
• Retail experience advantageous.

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Take ownership, build and maintain our bleeding edge mobile e-commerce iOS application.
• Migrate the existing Objective C app to Swift
• Design, develop and test code written in Objective C/Swift.
• Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.
• Monitor and profile application performance.
• Take part in daily standup, with the ability to manage time and workload effectively.
• Collaborate with creative, content and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class iOS mobile application.
• Publish applications to the Apple App Store

The skills we need:

• Strong programming fundamentals.
• Experience architecting, developing, testing and maintaining iOS mobile applications.
• Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practice.
• Full understanding of the iOS application, view-controller and tableview life-cycles.
• Demonstrated best practices in the implementation of SwiftUI.
• Appreciation of iOS-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
• Knowledge and Appreciation of iOS user experience design patterns.
• Experience using GIT version control.
• Experience developing in an Agile team environment
• Be accountable, engaging and inventive.
• Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Figma and Miro.
• Experience with Google Maps, Firebase & Braze.
• Any Android experience.

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent of 3 years relevant experience. 
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience

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Your responsibilities will include:

Operational Duties

• Ensure that daily production is met with the daily SLA – no carry over allowed.
• Ensure that pre-picks are completed for bookings
• Ensure that QC is completed daily
• Request outstanding stock from Main DC for booked collections
• Ensure 100% hand over success rate is achieved
• Ensure that stock is shipped and handed over correctly
• Ensure that failed handover are rectified and sent via DPD to merchant
• Ensure RTM disposals are managed
• Ensure that all staff comply with SOP’s..
• Understand deviations and provide solutions to deviations
• Complete and report on all KPI measures and provide reasons for deviations.
• Ensure that all equipment under your control is used correctly and stowed away safely.
• Capture and calculate overtime accurately and ensure submission deadlines are met without error.
• Ensure that the attendance register/biometric data is accurate and to resolve any queries.
• Assist staff with administrative and operational requests.
• Manage PPE and stationary requirements effectively.
• Ensure that all staff are using the correct PPE for the task being performed.
• Ensure that operational areas are kept clean.

Cost Management

• Control of expenditure and flexing of costs in line with volume fluctuations of failed handovers.
• Manage daily staff and overtime efficiently to ensure labour costs are controlled..
• Ensure that all procurement is done in a controlled and managed way.

Reporting & Admin

• Extract’s data and generates reports which will assist in performance tracking and decision making.
• All administrative documentation is labeled and filed as per procedures.
• All daily, weekly and monthly reports/ meeting minutes are up to date.

People Management

• Train and supervise employees to carry out the functions under their control.
• Ensure that all staff are at work and attendance is 100%.
• All overtime and acting allowance must be approved before work is done.
• Measure and manage staff through formal staff appraisals, development, coaching and disciplinary procedures.
• Assert and drive accountability in all levels of staff.

SHE, Risk, Quality & 5S Duties

• Ensure 5S standards are maintained.
• Conduct daily and weekly 5S audits.
• Identify, correct deviations.
• Ensure health and safety standards are maintained and issues reported timeously.
• Align with the Quality Management System and help to continually improve processes.

Attributes required:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated,
• Self-starter with high energy levels.
• Strong organizational & prioritization skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to interact with internal & external stakeholders at all levels.
• Comfortable with change and excellent team player.
• Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems.
• Be able to work in a pressured environment.
• Be able to complete tasks quickly & efficiently.
• Be willing to go the extra mile.
• A structured and disciplined management style
• Ability to motivate and inspire others.
• Computer literacy (excel, word, PowerPoint)

Qualifications:

• Matric/Grade 12 or equal qualification
• Tertiary qualification advantageous
• Have proven relevant experience in receiving, picking, packing, evaluation, put-away and inventory management (in applicable departments within the DC).
• 4-5 years warehouse experience
• 2 years supervisory experience/exposure would be advantageous