Category Performance Manager

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for highly talented to Category Performance Manager join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This role reports to the Sales Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Category GMV - Seller pipeline: Maintain a target list of key brands and sellers both locally and internationally.
• Ensure health/retention of key category players
• Drive retention and growth of key lines by category
• Promotions: Ensure high availability of promotions on key lines by category
• Converting SKUs: Ensure liquidity of offers - Speed: Drive In-stock availability of key lines by category
• Catalogue quality: Maintain best in class catalogue quality metrics
• Relevance: Ensure depth of participation in category specific campaigns
• Discovery: Ensure category winning and up-and-coming lines are discoverable

Skills required:

• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze category performance metrics and identify trends, opportunities, and challenges.
• Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate with various stakeholders, including account managers, promotions and merchandising team, and sellers.
• Negotiation Skills: Ability to negotiate with sellers to ensure the best terms for the marketplace.
• Project Management Skills: Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects at the same time, and to coordinate with various teams to ensure the successful implementation of promotions and campaigns.
• Knowledge: E-commerce Knowledge: Understanding of how e-commerce marketplaces work, including the dynamics of supply and demand, the importance of catalogue quality, and the role of promotions and campaigns.
• Category Knowledge: Deep understanding of the category they are managing, including the key brands and sellers, the key lines, and the market trends.
• Marketing Knowledge: Understanding of how to drive traffic and discovery, and how to create a robust pipeline of winning lines for marketing to call out.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and implement a strategic plan for the category, based on the performance metrics and the market trends.
• Problem Solving: Ability to identify and solve problems that might affect the performance of the category.
• Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changes in the market and to adjust the category strategy as needed.
• Attention to Detail: Ability to maintain high catalogue quality and to ensure the in-stock availability of key lines.

Qualifications and Experience:

• BCom or equivalent
• Postgraduate preferred
• 5 - 7 years experience in a Category Managing Buying or Planning functions

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

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.