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  • Posted: Nov 20, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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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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    Intermediate Software Engineer - WMS (C# .NET)

    Role overview

    • Plays a crucial role in the development and enhancement of our Warehouse Management System (WMS), ensuring it meets the evolving needs of our clients and improves operational efficiency.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Design, develop, and maintain our state-of-the-art Warehouse Management System, enhancing its functionality and performance.
    • Work closely with cross-functional teams including product management, operations, and IT to gather requirements and deliver solutions.
    • Integrate the WMS with other business systems and third-party applications, ensuring seamless data flow and interoperability.
    • Analyse complex system requirements and troubleshoot issues to ensure optimal system performance and reliability.
    • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software design, implementation, and testing processes.
    • Write clean, scalable, and efficient code, and conduct thorough unit and integration testing to ensure high- improve skills and contribute to the team's growth.

    Qualifications & Experience:

    • Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
    • 3-5 years of hands-on experience in software development using C#, with a focus on warehouse management or logistics systems being preferable
    • Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and ORM Frameworks
    • Experience using ASP.NET Core MVC and React web frameworks
    • Experience with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript)
    • Experience with mobile development
    • Understanding of RESTful API design and integration

    Key Requirements: 

    • Proficiency in C#, SQL, .NET Core, MVC, RESTful API, JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, SASS, CSS, and GIT
    • Understanding of RESTful API development and microservices architecture.
    • Familiarity and experience with containerisation technologies
    • Database development
    • API integration
    • Mobile development
    • Version Control
    • Code review
    • Trouble shooting

    Key Skills Required: 

    • Adaptability
    • Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail
    • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders
    • Team Player: Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment and adapt to changing priorities

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    Senior Software Engineer - WMS (C# .NET)

    Role overview

    • Plays a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our Warehouse Management System. With a specific focus on optimising warehouse operations, this role will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust and scalable software solutions that improve our logistics operations.

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Design, develop, and implement features for the Warehouse Management System to improve operational efficiency.
    • Work closely with product managers, architects, and other engineers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
    • Lead code reviews, provide technical guidance, and mentor junior engineers to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
    • Collaborate with QA teams to ensure high-quality delivery through robust testing and debugging practices.
    • Integrate new technologies to enhance system performance and address complex logistics challenges.
    • Maintain comprehensive documentation for code, architecture, and user guides.

    Qualifications & Experience:

    • Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred
    • Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in software development using C#
    • Solid Experience with SQL Server and ORM frameworks
    • Experience with data analytics tools and reporting technologies
    • Proficiency using ASP.NET Core MVC and React web frameworks
    • Proficiency with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Typescript)
    • Proficiency with Mobile Development would be advantageous
    • Solid understanding of RESTful API design and integration

    Key Requirements: 

    • Proficiency in C#, SQL, .NET Core, MVC, RESTful API, JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, SASS, CSS, and GIT
    • Solid understanding of RESTful API development and microservices architecture
    • Familiarity and experience with containerization technologies
    • Database development
    • API integration
    • Mobile development
    • Version Control
    • Code review
    • Trouble shooting

    Key Skills Required: 

    • Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and creatively
    • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
    • Team Player: Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
    • Knowledge of warehouse processes and logistics operations would be advantageous

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    Mr D - Senior Developer

    What We’re Looking For

    Technical Foundation

    • We need someone with a thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, objectoriented concepts, data structures, and algorithms. 
    • Your Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) should be backed by 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience.

    Core Technical Skills

    • Python & *nix expertise - You’re comfortable in Unix/Linux environments and passionate about Python development
    • Distributed Systems - Experience developing distributed backend systems and stateless architectures
    • API Design - Proven ability to design and maintain secure and scalable APIs
    • Data & Streaming - Hands-on experience with event streaming, relational & non-relational datastores
    • Cloud & Containers - Experience with containerization and cloud service providers

    Nice-to-Have Experience

    • AWS Cloud technologies for scalable, cloud-native solutions
    • Version Control with GIT for collaborative development
    • Database Technologies: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis
    • Event Streaming: Kafka for real-time data processing
    • Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes for container management

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    Mr D - Mid-Level Operations Associate

    Your responsibilities will include:

    Operational Support and Efficiency:

    • Assist in managing day-to-day operations across various business verticals within MrD, contributing to smooth and efficient trade operations.
    • Participate in the implementation and refinement of operational processes to boost trading efficiency on the MrD platform.
    • Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational processes, using data to inform and guide decisions.

    Data Analysis and Reporting:

    • Assist in the analysis of operational data to generate insights aimed at improving customer experience and operational workflows.
    • Support in collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement.

    Teamwork and Development:

    • Help manage and resolve payment transaction issues, contributing to a seamless customer transaction process.
    • Assist in the investigation of order discrepancies and compile reports on operational challenges and customer feedback.
    • Support the mentorship and development of junior operations team members, promoting a culture of growth and learning.

    Emergency Management 

    • Proactively manage operational emergencies and system failures, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations. This includes being prepared to address emergencies during business hours after 5pm and during weekends, ensuring round-the-clock operational resilience.

     Attributes Required:

    • Strong analytical ability supported by solid Excel skills, showcasing the capability to dissect data and derive meaningful insights.
    • Ability to identify areas of improvement, indicating a proactive stance towards enhancing processes and outcomes.
    • Enterprising spirit and ability to take ownership of tasks, reflecting a drive to innovate and lead initiatives.
    • Willingness to buy into the requirements of a fast-paced start-up environment, with an understanding that peak activity may occur after traditional hours, highlighting flexibility and dedication.
    • Ability to verbalize as well as visualize findings and results, emphasizing the importance of clear and effective communication, both verbally and through visual means.
    • Strong team player, indicating the importance of collaboration and mutual support within a team setting.

     Qualifications & Experience:

    • Relevant bachelor’s degree in commerce, engineering, finance or related field. 
    • At least 3 years’ of experience in operations, particularly in e-commerce, logistics, supply chain, or a related fast-paced industry. 
    • Experience in using data analytics to inform operational decisions and improvements.
    • Proficiency in analyzing performance metrics to provide insights on operational aspects.
    • Proficiency in advanced Excel 
    • Knowledge of SQL or Python is advantageous.

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    Mr D - Merchandising Manager

    Purpose of Role

    • To own merchandising efforts across the Mr D On-Demand vertical and ensure that we deliver on our commercial objectives. Drive engagement and conversion from customer traffic to app. Ensuring order mix and commercial goals are achieved by reviewing and carefully curating hyperlocal merchandising strategies.

    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

    Attributes required:

    • Attention to detail in a high pressure environment.
    • Comfortable working with analytics tools, e-commerce dashboards, and app platforms to optimize merchandising efforts.
    • Capacity to work closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product development, and tech, to provide a seamless and intuitive shopping experience for app users.
    • Keen awareness of industry trends, competitors, and customer behavior to position the platform as a leader in the on-demand market space
    • Proficiency in analyzing merchandising data, user preferences, and market trends to inform strategic initiatives and meet business goals.
    • Strong desire and unwavering determination to excel in a fast-paced, dynamic start-up environment.
    • Ability to articulate and visualize insights, findings, and results effectively
    • A proactive and enterprising spirit with a demonstrated ability to take full ownership of tasks and deliver exceptional results.
    • Highly skilled with numbers, showcasing strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
    • A dependable and enthusiastic team player, fostering collaboration and contributing to the success of cross-functional initiatives.

    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)

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    Mr D - Sales Lead - Western Cape

    Your responsibilities will include:

    • Daily coordination of team members to achieve Mr D’s restaurant related acquisition, retention and revenue goals across the Western Cape
    • Implement new policy/procedures established by the business
    • Help Account Managers prioritise team tasks on a weekly basis
    • Ensure effective Coordination of team activities through the Pipedrive CRM
    • Help drive ongoing product knowledge sessions amongst sales team and restaurant partners
    • Be the point person for the operations team to drive restaurant operational performance and initiate activities to resolve issues
    • Screen and recruit additional account managers for the region
    • Provide input to the marketing team when requested for specific promos and advertising initiatives 
    • Set goals based on acquisition and retention objectives

    Attributes required:

    • Experience coordinating team activities
    • Proven track record of hitting goals and targets
    • Strong leadership skills
    • Excellent communications skills
    • Exhibit the ability to self motivate
    • Extremely competitive with a love for winning
    • Competence in Excel
    • Ability to prioritise business objectives and set goals
    • Accurate

    Qualifications:

    • A relevant tertiary qualification
    • Minimum 1 year experience supervising teams
    • Minimum 2 years experience in marketplace, e-commerce SAAS or hospitality sales

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    Junior Product Manager: Facilities & Network

    Your responsibilities will include:

    • Determine what data needs to be gathered to inform decision making around product requirements
    • Conduct on-the-ground analysis of processes to make informed decisions
    • Conduct Gap analysis on current and potential future systems  
    • Gather and use quantitative and qualitative data to help formulate product requirements
    • Extract key insights from data for post-launch impact analysis
    • Create, design and document reporting metrics to measure pre and post-launch impact/efficiency
    • Suggest ideas to solve customer challenges and validate them in close collaboration with UX and relevant stakeholders
    • Clearly communicate requirements to UX/UI design resources
    • Work with design resources to finalize the customer experience for a particular feature
    • Take end-to-end ownership of product development including documentation, implementation, testing, launch, and success metric monitoring
    • Facilitate backlog grooming and planning ceremonies
    • Clarify project requirements and create acceptance criteria with QA and Engineering 
    • Perform pre-launch user acceptance testing (UAT)
    • Collaborate with technical teams to document high-level non-functional and functional requirements
    • Apply understanding of system architecture to help shape functional requirements
    • Ensure relevant stakeholders for a project are correctly identified, consulted and informed
    • Have a deep understanding of core stakeholder pain-points / objectives related to a project and long term strategic vision
    • Manage relationships with stakeholders, related to a specific project(s), including obtaining senior stakeholder buy-in, approval and sign off for requirements and relevant project status communications
    • Take initiative to identify critical problems and drive solutions in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
    • Understand the product vision and strategy and how this impacts parallel teams and work streams 
    • Contribute to the roadmap to execute the product strategy

    Attributes required:

    • Passion for understanding unique, ambiguous, complex problems and driving high quality, innovative, clean solutions
    • Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
    • Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
    • Strong project management and communication skills
    • Ability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally 
    • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
    • Ability to verbalize, visualize and communicate outcomes or technical concepts in a clear, concise manner to various stakeholder groups
    • Good technical understanding of software development processes
    • Good business analysis skills - analytical and able to use data to make decisions
    • Highly structured thinker with strong attention to detail
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical individuals

    Qualifications and experience:

    • Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field with at least 3 years of business analysis experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities) OR 1 year of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
    • If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, at least 6 years of business analysis experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities) or 4 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
    • Experience working with data analytics tools (e.g. Excel, SQL, BigQuery, DBeaver)
    • Experience working with wireframing tools is preferable
    • Experience in working with Android applications
    • Design Thinking experience will be highly advantageous
    • Experience in the Retail, Logistics or Supply Chain industries would be advantageous 

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    Product Lead (Payments)

    Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

    • Building the overall vision and roadmap of the Payments portfolio on all Takealot shopping platforms (web and apps).
    • Participate in shaping takealot.com’s payment strategy and impacting how over 4 million South Africans pay for the things they love.
    • Work cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will improve payment-related processes.
    • Define a compelling long-term product vision (3–5 years) and strategy for your product area, aligned with business goals and grounded in customer needs. Focus on elevating the end-to-end digital experience through innovation, differentiation, and the smart application of emerging technologies.
    • Own and maintain an actionable product roadmap that clearly prioritizes features, enhancements, and strategic initiatives. Ensure the roadmap reflects evolving business priorities, customer feedback, and technological opportunities.
    • Leverage data and experimentation to continuously improve the product. Analyze performance, test hypotheses, monitor key metrics, and use customer insights to identify and deliver impactful optimizations.
    • Take responsibility for talks and negotiations with partners dealing with payment services, while getting to work with experts in the payment space to implement solutions that improve how millions pay.
    • Research the best solutions in the payments market. Keep up to date with the latest trends and developments and build cases for projects that can move the business forward.
    • Drive conversion rate optimisation as it relates to online payments.
    • Work with business owners to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities in order to translate their needs into projects for payments.
    • Defining/tracking the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on product features and functionality.
    • Analysing and understanding the project scope and core objectives through workshops with stakeholders to define business requirements.
    • Eliciting low-level functional requirements and documenting these requirements such that detailed technical specifications can be compiled by Engineering.
    • Collaborate with the technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
    • Evolve appropriate Product Management practices for a responsive, dynamic environment to foster effective execution of commitments.
    • Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
    • Setting timelines, driving project schedules, and leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
    • Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.
    • Performing user acceptance testing.

    The skills we need:

    • Vision & Strategic Thinking: You’re skilled at defining a clear, ambitious product vision and translating it into a cohesive strategy across multiple teams. You know how to craft compelling narratives, strategic documents, and product requirements that align stakeholders, inform decisions, and inspire action. You are equally comfortable zooming out to shape long-term direction and diving deep into the details to ensure executional excellence.
    • Product Craft & Execution: You bring extensive experience envisioning, building, and scaling customer-facing products—ideally in an online marketplace or e-commerce context. You have a proven track record of delivering impact through exceptional product thinking, strong execution, and a deep understanding of what it takes to ship and scale successful digital experiences.
    • Customer-Obsessed Problem Solving: You lead with curiosity and empathy, constantly seeking to understand user needs, pain points, and behaviors. You are experienced in product discovery and know how to turn insights into meaningful, innovative solutions that solve real problems—for both customers and partners—while driving measurable business outcomes.
    • Commercial and Market Acumen: You use data, user insights, and competitive intelligence to assess opportunities and make informed decisions. You understand how to balance customer value and commercial impact, and you prioritize work that drives both strategic growth and operational efficiency.
    • Analytical Rigor: You are data-literate and insight-driven, with the ability to interpret both quantitative and qualitative signals. You define success metrics, design experiments, and track performance to inform decisions and continuously improve the product.
    • Thoughtful Leadership: You lead with humility, curiosity, and conviction. You have experience mentoring and developing product talent, fostering a high-performing, customer-focused culture. You advocate for excellence, drive innovation, and inspire teams to do their best work.
    • Solution-oriented, accountable, highly motivated, and have a robust personality.
    • The ability to take initiative in ambiguous situations by identifying critical problems and driving solutions.
    • Data-driven decision-making with good storytelling skills.
    • Outstanding organisational and communication skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities

    Qualifications & Experience:

    • Minimum bachelor’s degree, preferably in engineering
    • At least 7 years of product management experience, preferably in eCommerce/online retail/payments, with 2-4 years in a product leadership/strategic role
    • Needed strong strategic thinking and product discovery experience — you’re not just executing, you’re setting vision and direction.
    • Needed experience in discovering and leading cross-functional product initiatives.

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    Business Analyst (Catalogue)

    Your responsibilities will include the following:

    • To analyse and understand project scope and core objectives
    • Lead requirements elicitation workshops with stakeholders to define high-level business requirements
    • Assist stakeholders in prioritising the requirements
    • Plan and lead workshops with stakeholders and technical resources to elicit detailed, low level functional requirements
    • Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, break down high-level information into their constituent details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs.
    • Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
    • Proactively communicate and collaborate with project team to analyse information needs and functional requirements to deliver the following artefacts as needed:
      • Business/functional requirement specification
      • Wireframes
      • Workflow / process flow diagrams
      • Data Model/s
    • Obtain sign-off on the specifications
    • Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending daily team meetings and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
    • Be the liaison between the business and the engineering team.
    • Project manage the implementation of selected project initiatives.
    • Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage
    • Perform ongoing technical data analysis to identify the root cause of system and data quality issues and translate the findings into technical specifications/solutions for engineering and other relevant teams
    • Work with the Product Manager for Catalogue to define the data structure for Takealot’s catalogue information, as well as the key metrics that will be tracked to measure the quality of Takealot’s product catalogue
    • Work on business specifications for reporting tools to monitor the quality of Takealot’s product catalogue information and processes, by collaborating closely with various teams, including Takealot’s Business Intelligence team.

    Attributes required:

    • Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
    • Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
    • Passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high-quality, innovative, clean solutions
    • Ability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
    • Versatile and with an appetite to learn by doing
    • Highly structured thinker with strong attention to detail
    • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

    Qualifications and Experience:

    • A Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or similar degree
    • A minimum of 2 years’ experience in business analysis, product management or a related field
    • Experience defining solutions for user facing websites and systems is advantageous 
    • Experience in data analysis, particularly with large data sets
    • Experience in working with mySQL and/or PostgreSQL
    • Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical individuals.

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    QA Test Analyst (Fulfillment )

    The Role

    • As a QA Analyst 3, you are an advanced individual contributor who combines strong testing execution skills with analytical depth. You own testing for complex features or domains, define test strategies and guide others in applying sound QA principles.
    • You collaborate with engineers, product managers and automation specialists to ensure our products meet the highest quality standards, across functional, integration and exploratory testing. Work closely with the Team and QA Manager to ensure quality is implemented as part of the processes and that quality standards are adhered to.

    Your mission should you choose to accept it:  

    • Own test analysis and design for your feature or domain area.
    • Create, maintain and execute detailed test plans and cases for web and API. 
    • Partner with engineers and automation engineers to ensure comprehensive test coverage and efficient test pipelines.
    • Identify risks early and design mitigation strategies.
    • Perform exploratory testing and identify improvement opportunities in our test processes.
    • Analyse issues, log defects with clear reproduction steps and drive root-cause discussions with engineers.
    • Support automation by providing test data, cases and guidance on integration coverage.
    • Mentor QA Analysts on testing best practices, analysis and reporting.
    • Contribute to team retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives.

    Skills needed:

    • Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
    • Self-motivated with strong capability of fast learning
    • Ability to work efficiently both independently and within the team
    • The ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
    • Ability to analyse and solve complex problems quickly and creatively.

    Qualifications and experience:

    • Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
    • 4-6 years of experience as a QA Analyst or Software Tester, ideally in an agile environment.
    • Experience in functional, integration and API testing across multiple environments.
    • Exposure to automation tools such as Robot Framework, Playwright, Postman, Bruno.
    • Proficiency with Jira, XRay test management system and working knowledge of SQL.
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
    • Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to influence across product and engineering teams.
    • A passion for quality, you take ownership of the systems you test and the experience they deliver.

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    Franchise Manager

    Your responsibilities will include:

    • Assisting in the setting up of SOP’s for all clients across the delivery platform
    • Constantly monitor and upgrade SOP’s where necessary
    • Assist with the training and set up of new Franchises
    • Train SOP’s at a Franchisee level
    • Monitor, manage and maintain the required Franchise service levels
    • Adherence of Franchisees to Hub Setup Manual and Franchise Agreement
    • Set and manage KPI’s at Franchise level
    • Regular audits to assess and measure process and execution performance
    • Local travel in and around an allocated region, as well as traveling to allocated regional hubs quarterly
    • Driving the company policies, procedures and brand standards through regular auditing processes
    • Train and guide Franchisees towards improved business operations, act as a consultant to the Franchisee to drive business improvement and success
    • Assist Franchisees in the training of their employees
    • Monitoring and measuring hub performance and productivity against their required Service Level Agreement’s through system checks and reporting analysis
    • Presenting solutions to solve problems to help drive the momentum and success of the Franchise businesses
    • A Franchise Manager must be the ‘protector of the brand’ at all times, working towards brand recognition and business growth

    Attributes required:

    • High energy, self-starter
    • Execution bias
    • Understand how technology works for business
    • Project Management
    • System and process orientated
    • Attention to detail while still seeing the bigger picture
    • Understand convenience and customer service
    • Strong analytical and critical thinking, ability to use data to make informed decisions, identify the root cause and resolve problems
    • Comfortable with change and an excellent team player
    • Low on ego, high on delivery and execution
    • Organization and sound communication will be key success factors of a Franchise Manager

     Minimum qualification and experience requirements:

    • Matric (grade 12) certificate or similar
    • 3 years top management experience
    • Microsoft Office experience in word, excel and PowerPoint
    • Training experience will be beneficial
    • Operational experience managing national or regional operations
    • Previous hospitality/retail Franchise working experience will be advantageous
    • Previous experience in the logistics industry is not required
    • Proven track record in delivery and execution
    • IT or tech savvy will be advantageous

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    Data Analyst (Portfolio)

    Your responsibilities will include:

    • Analyze complex datasets to identify opportunities for improvement in your functional area.
    • Build, validate, and maintain models to guide commercial decisions.
    • Partner cross-functionally with Retail, Marketplace, Supply Chain, Promotions, Product, and other stakeholders to influence outcomes.
    • Continuously improve tools, dashboards, and workflows that enable scalable analysis and performance monitoring.
    • Translate business problems into structured analytical approaches and clearly communicate insights to non-technical audiences.
    • Take ownership of initiatives, follow through on delivery, and adapt quickly to changing business priorities.
    • Ability to deliver under deadlines and adapt to changing priorities.
    • Strong leadership potential — capable of influencing and mentoring others.
    • Committed to excellence and continuous improvement.
    • Adopts and leverages AI in their daily tasks to improve their efficiency.
    • Analyze list price structures to optimize margins while remaining competitive.
    • Develop models that guide base pricing decisions across products and categories.
    • Identify patterns in pricing elasticity and suggest price repositioning.

    Qualification & Experience:

    • Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in a quantitative field such as Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, or Economics.
    • Additional postgraduate studies preferred.
    • 3–5 years of experience in data analytics or a relevant quantitative function.
    • Functional domain experience related to the role (e.g., pricing, promotions, demand planning, retail channel).
    • Exposure to online or traditional retail environments is highly preferred.
    • Management consulting experience is advantageous.

    Attributes Required:

    • Advanced Excel skills.
    • Proficiency in SQL (Postgres, BigQuery).
    • Experience using KNIME, R, or Python for data analysis and modelling.
    • Ability to work with large datasets and interpret results meaningfully.
    • Understanding of retail dynamics and levers of commercial performance.
    • Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams.
    • Excellent quantitative and analytical ability.
    • Strong problem-solving skills and creative thinking.
    • Self-motivated, driven, and able to work independently.
    • High personal accountability and ownership mindset.
    • Strong communication skills — able to defend your point of view, but humble in the face of better arguments.

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