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Takealot.com is the leading ecommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative ecommerce retailers on the African continent.
Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that the customer comes first.
All of our focus is dedicated to improving the customer ...
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The position reports to the Engineering Team Lead (Release Engineering)
The Release Engineering Team (RET) is a division of Takealot’s Engineering team focused on developing tools, solutions and platform which would enable developers to build and deploy software in a safe, secure and continuous manner, whilst maintaining quality. They are a dedicated team of engineers who are responsible for CI/CD solutions, test automation frameworks, cloud & on-prem environments and tools & processes related to build and deployment. This team is also responsible for maintaining some of our core production services, which manage some of our critical functions like monitoring, alerting etc.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Architect and implement CI/CD processes and solutions to drive continuous deployments with velocity
- Maintain and support continuous delivery tools and processes.
- Provision, deploy, and operate systems managed by the team
- Drive tooling, culture, and automation to reduce friction for the Engineering team
- Design, develop and maintain internal libraries, tooling and systems
- Work across multiple technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker and Helm.
- Work closely with DevOps, SRE, QA, Security, Data Engineering and Development teams, to support and maintain Takealot’s software ecosystem.
- Be on-call for the systems managed by release engineering
- Provide on-call production support for the systems and services managed by RET.
- Implementing innovative CI/CD solutions and showcase its business value to the senior management and the wider Engineering audience.
The skills we need:
- Is passionate about technology, keeping up to date with the industry, always learning
- Is a team player, an active listener, and is able to communicate well
- Is solutions oriented, and can break down complex problems
- Shows solid reasoning and decision making
Qualifications & Experience:
- Has either a degree in computer science, or equivalent industry experience
- At least 5 years of professional experience in the software engineering domain.
- Must have hands-on experience with minimum one build and deploy systems such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc.
- Must have strong experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes (running an application, using helm, etc.)
- Hand-on experience on Linux, Bash and/or Networking.
- Can write code (we use Python mostly, also some GroovyLang)
- Must have hands-on experience with installing and configuring third-party tools like Spinnaker, JenkinsX etc. on cloud environments like GCP.
- Strong knowledge on containerization and container orchestration tools.
- Experience with defining a CI/CD strategy and framework for an organization.
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This position reports to the Head of Sales & Account Managers for Mr D.
Purpose of Role
Support the Mr D sales teams to ensure the execution of sales related tasks and activities across all sales regions.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Coordination of sales administration across multiple regional teams.
- Ensuring accuracy across the sales teams CRM platform.
- Own the Mr D contract management process
- Assisting the sales team with the restaurant signup process.
- Coordination and enforcement of sales admin practices.
- Act as a direct line and communication funnel into the sales team for the Mr D business.
- Generate reporting on established key sales metrics.
Attributes required:
- Attention to detail in a high pressure environment
- Enterprising spirit and ability to take ownership of tasks
- Ability to work and keep up in a fast-paced environment
- Accurate and methodical
- Strong team player
- Proficiency in using CRM tools
Qualifications:
- Matric
- 1+ Years Experience in a marketplace, e-commerce or SAAS environment
- Competence in Microsoft Office Suite
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This role reports to the Head of Paid.
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.
- Develop and drive a mobile app acquisition and retention strategy
Attributes required:
- Attention to detail
- e-commerce experience across paid advertising
- Strong Data Analysis, Manipulation and Reporting Skills
- Strong Problem Solving Skills and Solutions Orientated
- To work under pressure in a time sensitive environment
- To work with all levels of management
Qualifications and Experience:
- A Degree is required within Marketing, Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science
- 2-4 years’ experience in a paid advertising role
- Certifications: Google Ads (Required) Google Analytics (Required) DoubleClick (Beneficial)
- Experience on the following platforms:
- Google Ads (Required) - Across App, Display, Search, and Shopping
- Google Analytics (Required) - 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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This role will report to the Head of Brand & Communication.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Planning, coordinating, workflow management, SOPs and on time delivery of projects in the Marketing department
- Interfacing between marketing and the rest of the business to ensure marketing requests and assets are deployed quickly and according to scope.
- Point of contact to receive and process requests, briefs and work requests into the Marketing Team.
- Managing the creation & delivery of marketing assets from briefing to execution, including but not limited to:
- Ensuring the completeness of all briefs submitted by the business requesting marketing assets: product launch campaigns, emails, daily deals, carousels, fly outs, promotions, sales, sound recordings, landing pages, promotional and branded items, etc and following up with designers & copywriters to ensure that those briefs get implemented in a timely fashion
- Conducting quality control on the design team’s outputs including but not limited to data integrity and checks, spell checks, functionality tests and ensuring that all links work as intended.
- Reviewing and coordinating final sign-off of all assets from all relevant project stakeholders
- Ensuring the successful deployment of marketing assets.
- The scheduling of daily newsletters, paid advertising, commercial projects in design studio and across the team
- Operational, capacity and Management reporting weekly and monthly.
- Managing projects and assigning tasks to resources and problem-solving any resource or scheduling conflicts.
- Design studio resource capacity planning and reporting
- Own and update SOPs and workflows in the division and across teams
- Conduct and manage daily stand-ups with studio and marketing teams
- Ensure that the Marketing Calendar is aligned and updated daily with Promo Team and Retail Marketing Channel Managers and Commercial teams and updated and communicated daily
- Manage the sourcing, collection and delivery of branding and collateral for conferences, golf tournaments, etc
- Proactively exploring new methodologies, systems and processes that enhance the flow of work through the Marketing team
Attributes required:
- Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail, and a well-structured thought process
- Ability to multi-task and to meet tight deadlines
- Very strong interpersonal skills and experience of marshalling cross-departmental resources towards daily goals and objectives
- Good numerical and analytical skills – adept at creating formulae, graphs etc.
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum of 3-4 years experience in a marketing, operations or digital traffic management role and will have project management experience
- A passion for retail and marketing is essential
- Relevant tertiary education to support this role
- Understanding of the digital process and ability to run projects according to basic digital traffic / project management processes and protocols
- Experience working with project plans and project management tools
- A high level of attention to detail and great organisational abilities are a prerequisite to succeeding in this role
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office - Microsoft Excel experience essential
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This position reports to the Software Engineering Manager.
High Level
We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the Takealot groups delivery network as well as the unique challenges that come with logistics and scale. We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and to enable scale. We follow the event driven architecture as well as utilize a graph database to model our delivery network. We are currently working through unique problems in the logistics space and are actively researching the usage of the actor model design pattern and graph traversal optimization.
Your responsibilities will include the following:
- Developing and optimizing systems to manage both parcel and food delivery throughout South Africa
- Working with business to improve processes to allow for more efficient deliveries
- Researching and defining solutions within the logistic domain
- Working predominantly on open source platforms
- End to end ownership of solutions
Attributes required:
- Solid communication skills
- Proactive
- Ability to adapt to change
- Problem-solver
- Solutions-oriented
- Willing to learn as well as teach others
Qualifications & Experience:
- A suitable degree or similar qualification
- Experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Proficient in a strongly typed language such as Scala, Java or C#
- Open to diversifying language skill set
- Experience with the following will be advantageous:
- Scala
- Play Framework
- Akka Actors
- React
- Postgres
- Mqtt & Kafka
- Amazon Web Services
- Graphite and Grafana
- Git
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The position reports to the Senior Copywriter and Content Strategist of Mr D
Your responsibilities will include:
- Translating creative/marketing briefs into effective copy across all touch points. Must be able to take a marketing brief, from ATL campaigns to CRM initiatives, and work with the team to craft compelling copy that brings the idea to life across all of Mr D's touch points.
- Writing, editing & proof-reading copy and planning content themes for Mr D marketing campaigns and acting as copy counsel for all marketing initiatives (including sales, promotions, email newsletters, social media content calendars, app push notifications, PR, Retail Marketing partnerships etc.)
- Writing, editing & proof-reading copy for all ad hoc business requests for Mr D customer communications (including CS macros, CS IVR, transactional emails and UX projects)
- Brainstorming and executing content marketing ideas to support Marketing & Brand campaigns and collaborating with designers & Creative Lead to provide on-brand copy for artwork and relevant content ideas (e.g. buying guides, GIFs, infographics, videos content etc)
- Owning and updating the copy & content on all Marketing-owned areas of the Mr D website (including FAQs, Terms & Conditions etc.) via the Wordpress platform
- Supporting the Senior Copywriter and Content Strategist to make sure on-site, in-app and digital copy works effectively for search engine optimization and conversion purposes
- Researching your subject matter to ensure the quality and accuracy of your copy, with the objective of always adding value to the Mr D customer experience
Attributes required:
- Top of the class written communication and creative copywriting skills
- Razor-sharp and lightning-quick proof-reading accuracy with an obsessive eye for detail
- Ability to write different types of copy consistently depending on its purpose
- Capability to present creative ideas succinctly (written & verbal)
- A grounding in Marketing and Communication principles
- Highly organized and efficient, can work towards and meet tight deadlines
- Creatively-minded with an ability to craft numerous campaigns across multiple departments
- Results-oriented with a can-do attitude
- High energy with a thirst for knowledge and willingness to learn
- A passion for delivering outstanding customer experiences
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in writing for online, blogging & social media
- Experience in creating content for brands (advantageous)
- Passion for building memorable brands
- Creative and open minded
- Highly organized and efficient, whilst being flexible and versatile
- An enthusiasm for, and an understanding of e-commerce
- Exceptional English writing skills, with strong attention to detail
- Tech savvy with an inquisitive mind
- The appetite for being involved in a startup environment
- Confident, with very strong interpersonal & communication skills and a proven ability to build productive relationships quickly
Qualifications and Experience:
- A minimum of 3+ years working in copywriting / content production or related communications/digital marketing field
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification in communications, copywriting, English language or related degree
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The position reports to: Automation Technician
Your responsibilities may include:
- Undertake cleaning, lubrication and preservation of machinery, equipment, tools, workshop and tool room.
- Remove rust and general cleaning of parts and/or equipment.
- Ports artisan and handymen tools, materials equipment to and from stores, vehicles, workshops and/or work sites and safe keeping thereof.
- Act and work in an efficient and safety conscious manner in accordance with safety rules, practices and requirements.
- Conduct daily / weekly / monthly inspections on building and equipment inline with the preventative maintenance schedule.
- Ensures the proper use and care of equipment e.g. ladders and jacks so that they are in good working condition when required
- Receive and collect materials, spares, and tools used in the fabrication and maintenance of equipment and plant.
- Demarcate work areas and perform traffic control.
- Ensure contractor compliance in line with the site rules and procedures
Qualification and Attributes
- Grade 12
- Some experience working on conveyer systems advantageous
- At least 3 or more years of related work and knowledge, required
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This position reports to the Chief Marketing Officer of Mr D.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Conceptualising, implementing and management of ongoing promotional marketing campaigns to drive grocery orders on the Mr D platform.
- Own, update and maintain the Mr D Grocery promotional calendar for Mr D Grocery, initiatives.
- You will need to develop an in-depth knowledge of each consumer target market group to craft meaningful promotional strategies.
- Work closely with the merchandising team to improve customer conversion within the Mr D app.
- Collaborate with the Grocery Product team to develop, coordinate and implement relevant campaigns and promos that are aligned with the overall promo calendar and relevant business objectives. Drive new feature launches and create sustained always-on educational content on product features and differentiators
- Briefing and operational management and coordinating of the various campaigns.
- Sourcing partnership opportunities with big brands (e.g. Coke, e-bucks etc.) in the market, and engaging in ongoing strategies to unlock the potential of those partnerships.
- Engagement with the brand team on through the line groceries and Mr D brand campaigns
- Engagement with the social media team on monthly content planning and preparation, as well as paid influencer partnerships
- Liaison with Pick n Pay marketing and trade marketing teams in joining campaigns and in-app merchandising
- Work with internal specialist teams on creating and implementing performance media and CRM strategies to grow the groceries offering from Mr D
- Working with Takealot Group marketing representatives to cross-sell and access new shoppers from their customer bases
- Monthly, Weekly and daily reporting of campaign and promo performance.
Qualifications and experience:
- A candidate with a proven track record of success in their academic achievements and career.
- A 3+ year degree in business, marketing or communications
- A minimum of 3 - 5 years retail and marketing experience
- Experience working across marketing channels – Digital, ATL, Partnerships – with demonstrable results
- The candidate will have had regular interaction at the executive level
- Proven track record of delivering projects
Skills, knowledge and abilities:
- A strong strategic thinker who has worked with C-level executives - an ability to craft plans to create promotions and generate orders
- An analytical mind and an ability to craft a retail marketing strategy based on sales figures and targets
- An understanding of e-commerce and the key levers that drive sales in an e-commerce environment
- A highly driven individual who is motivated to drive meaningful sales revenue for the business through retail marketing initiatives including - promotions, product launches and co-marketing opportunities with brands and third parties.
- A person who is a very strong relationship builder and can unlock opportunities with brands and third parties.
- Ability to identify key advertising opportunities and translate these into implementable plans
- Motivated, and capable to focus on and hit aggressive growth targets
- In-depth understanding of the advertising sales and tools
- Skilled in managing high-value accounts and managing relationships at an executive level
- Strong prioritization skills
- Fast learner and ability to thrive in a dynamic and high pace environment
- Systems thinker with the ability to understand and break down complex problems and relationships
- Creative and practical problem solving skills; solution-oriented
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to work independently and achieve a wide set of goals and objectives in a challenging and changing environment
- Resilience and perseverance to overcome challenges to achieve objectives
- A high level of integrity and respect
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This role will report to the Accounts Receivable Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Capture invoices on a monthly basis as required
- Execute workflow according to set priorities and deadlines
- Ensure quality and accuracy of data entries from source
- Identify, investigate and resolve discrepancies through collaboration with accounts receivable team and other stakeholders within the business.
- Assist with Debtors recons
- Assist with testing and project tasks to automate processes in the finance team.
- Assist with Ad hoc requests required from the finance team.
Attributes required:
- Attention to detail and accuracy in a high-pressure environment
- Ability to prioritize workload
- Ability to work independently
- Must have good communication skills and be fluent in English
- Good collaboration skills and the ability to think out of the box.
- Willingness to support the greater Takealot team to achieve its aspirational goals
Qualifications and Experience:
- Finance Admin diploma or equivalent.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a finance admin role
- Sage Evolution and Google Suites advantageous
- Computer proficiency pertaining to MS office and strong excel skills are a prerequisite
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
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This position reports to the Traffic Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Planning, coordinating, workflow management and responsible for on time delivery of projects in the Marketing department.
- Interfacing between marketing and the rest of the business to ensure marketing requests and assets are deployed quickly and according to scope.
- Point of contact to receive and process requests, briefs and work requests into the Marketing Team.
- Provide ongoing support to manage urgent and priority tasks, deadlines statuses and challenges.
- Create detailed schedules and set deadlines for various stages of all incoming briefs.
- The scheduling of daily newsletters, paid advertising, commercial projects, DD, Merchant Priorities, Promos, Coms and Social Media in the studio and across the team.
- Managing projects and assigning tasks to resources and problem-solving any resource or scheduling conflicts.
- Design studio resource capacity planning and reporting.
- Ensure that the Marketing Calendar is aligned and updated daily with Promo Team and Retail Marketing Channel Managers and Commercial teams and updated and communicated daily.
- Support Traffic Manager with the planning and management of key operational projects.
- Work closely with the Traffic Manager to improve existing systems and processes that foster better collaboration, communication, innovation and improved output on an ongoing basis.
Attributes required:
- Highly organized with meticulous attention to detail, and a well-structured thought process.
- Have the ability multitask, organize and collaborate with various stakeholders
- Very strong interpersonal skills and experience of marshaling cross-departmental resources towards daily goals and objectives.
- Good numerical and analytical skills – adept at creating formulae, graphs etc.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office - Microsoft Excel experience essential.
- Thrive in and encourage collaborative work environments while not hesitating to own, define, and deliver on complex and ambiguous tasks, projects.
- Present impeccable time-management skills, an eye for detail and problem solving capabilities
Qualifications and Experience:
- 3-4 years of experience in a traffic role for a medium-large sized marketing creative team
- Bachelors Degree/Diploma in a Marketing and/or Business related field
- Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the following skill sets: time, resource and traffic management within a creative environment
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This position reports to the Advertising Sales Specialist - Team Lead
Your responsibilities will include:
- Maximise value from existing Takealot Group relationships (brands and sellers)
- Directly attracting new brands, agencies and non-retail advertisers to invest in new and existing advertising inventory
- Initiating, designing and ensuring implementation of group advertising campaigns
- Target suppliers and sellers (working with internal teams) to offer additional value through group advertising options
- Customise group advertising campaigns for high value clients
- Continuously contribute to the enhancement of the group rate card and pitch deck for standard campaigns
- Obtain assets required for designers to implement campaigns
- Ensure all booked advertising campaigns are added to the marketing calendar (briefed into retail marketing managers) and executed effectively and on time
- Oversee billing and payment
- Oversee campaign tracking reports and communicate outcomes to clients, building a campaign execution portfolio
- Consistently meet and surpass advertising sales targets
- Leverage Takealot’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences to ensure that advertising campaigns meet the success criteria set by the client
- Utilize a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service and programmatic ad buying to put solutions in place that will help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales and more
- Act as a strategic partner to advertising clients and sell a broad range of advertising solutions that will ensure that their business goals are met
Attributes Required:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail and follow-through
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent campaign proposal design and management skills
- Ability to work independently to achieve sales targets
- Skilled in managing high-value accounts and managing relationships at an senior level
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Strong understanding of the digital advertising environment including sales, product, tools and campaign management
- Ability to identify key advertising sales opportunities and translate these into implementable solutions and action plans
- Ability to manage and influence teams across various business units
Qualification & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diplomas
- 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 advertising sales (account management-individual contributor)
- Experience in Digital Marketing, Advertising and or Sales; a good understanding of the digital advertising landscape
- E-Commerce experience is advantageous
- Demonstrated ability to consistently achieve sales targets
- Strong track record of internal and external relationship management
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The position reports to the Accounts Payable Manager
Your responsibilities will include:
- Responsible for all international trade vendor payments end to end
- Develop and implement standardized departmental controls and policies to ensure increased accuracy and efficiency, to scale International trade..
- Manage the supplier onboarding and maintenance process, including continuing development of the process at scale
- Full ownership of all supporting documentation flow, relating to direct imports, in line with best practice and relevant legislation
- Build, train, manage, maintain and an effective and independent team, to handle day-to-day responsibilities.
- Work closely with import clearing agencies, international trade department and buying team, to optimize processes and automate transactional flow
- Calculating and processing foreign currency exchange differences,
- Reporting of key KPI’s, relating to International Trade
- Review supplier reconciliations to ensure completeness and accuracy of payments
- Resolving non-routine supplier queries
- Manage supplier account’s age analysis
- Managing weekly and monthly payment cycle
- Assistance with financial month end and year end close
Attributes required:
- Continuous improvement- and scaling mindset
- Ability to lead from the front
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Problem solving
- Self motivated
- Deadline driven
Qualifications and Experience:
- Relevant tertiary qualification in accounting (BCom Accounting preferred)
- 3-4 years experience in International Accounts Payable or similar position for Trade suppliers
- Experience in managing a team
- Advance Excel
- SAGE advantageous
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Reporting to the Inbound Shift Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Ensure that the department is well organised and controlled to sufficiently support the goals of the business
- Implement improvement processes and maintain procedures and systems to minimise costs and maximise working capital
- Ensuring all work areas are clean and tidy and safe for staff to work in
- Evaluate daily operational reports to ensure key critical areas of the department are controlled and any discrepancies addressed and resolved.
- Manage control measures to ensure mistakes, inaccuracies and discrepancies are highlighted, addressed and resolved.
- Ensure that all processes are completed on the same day. Daily planning with line Managers
- Oversee the DC Assistants and motivate attention to detail, for constant accuracy and turn-around times.
- Assist with managing outputs within the department. Maintaining quality and quantity of work.
- Ensure productive targets are met
- Assist to maintain FIFO of tasks within the department.
- Ensure escalated daily operational queries from team are resolved timeously
Attributes required:
- Have a detailed understanding of warehouse management systems
- Problem solving skills required
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer focused working environment.
- Possess excellent personal organisation and business administration skills in accordance with modern best practice methods.
- Possess the ability to work productively, efficiently & effectively with initiative and drive under tight timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality.
- Possess the willingness to learn, improve and adapt.
- Good team player, hard worker, willing to be flexible with a positive attitude Must be able to work as part of a multi-cultural team
- Must be able to train staff
Qualifications:
- Matric or equal qualification
- Tertiary qualification advantageous
- Have proven relevant experience in Picking, Packing, Receiving, Supplier Collects and Inventory (in applicable departments within the DC)
- 4-5 years warehouse experience
- 2 years supervisory experience/exposure would be advantageous
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