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 won't be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
The position reports to the Head of Promotions and Merchandising.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Owns and optimises processes and procedures to ensure the successful execution of promotional campaigns and works closely with the Head of Promotions and Merchandising to plan, execute, report and optimise performance of all promotional campaigns.
- Conceptualise, plan and execute a promotional calendar using data and input from Curators, Marketing, Retail and Marketplace teams
- Ensuring the successful briefing of all promotional campaigns to ensure optimal deals on site.
- The day-to-day management of internal tools & processes used for briefing promotions, solving operational issues as and when they occur.
- Feedback to Product teams on tools and required improvements
- Analyse and report key metrics: sales, conversion, sell-through, frequency of shop & new customer acquisition.
- Ad hoc investigation and tactical planning to drive success of promotions.
- Will be required to be contactable over weekends and after hours.
- Develop & manage a team of promotions assistants who provide the operational support of the Retail and Marketplace teams.
- Working with Marketing on design of promotional creatives and above the line executions for promotions.
- Working with Supply Chain and Customer Support teams where needed.
- Strong attention to detail
- Data-driven decision making
- Strong project management skills
- Team player with bias to action
- Strong problem solving capability
- Able to create and optimise operational processes
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 5 years experience
- Strong competence in Excel
- Experience in optimising processes advantageous
- Experience in ecommerce or retail preferrable
- 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.
- 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
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
