Marketplace Operations Manager

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Takealot Group Full time
, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Marketplace Operations Manager to 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 won't be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This role is focused on delivering the best possible seller experience through flawless and efficient service delivery, continuously improving on and simplifying processes and systems that set the third party merchants up for sustainable scalable growth on our platform.

This role leads a large and diversified team therefore, it is highly cross-functional and highly visible by the senior leadership of You must not only be able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but you must also be willing to roll up your sleeves and dig into daily and operational challenges that impede third party merchants' success.

This is a senior position reporting to the Head of Marketplace.
Job Purpose Develop processes for marketplace operations and systems that enable growth and scale of the platform.
Continuous improvement of existing processes, operations and systems focused on operational efficiencies, quality improvements and cost reduction.
Ensure a positive seller experience in all interactions with marketplace processes with focus on seller education and support.
Management of projects and partnerships focused on new initiatives across the business including commercial, engineering and supply chain.

Your responsibilities will include Continuous monitoring of merchant experience to ensure that merchant sentiment is positive and the environment facilitates merchant growth and success.

Partner with key stakeholders from engineering and content management, legal, commercial and wider organizational supply chain teams to help identify opportunities for Marketplace operational business process improvements and opportunities to develop and deliver an autonomous self-service platform for sellers.

Work closely with support services to ensure that support issues are handled quickly and with accuracy.
Continuous monitoring of supply chain operations to ensure that merchant operational performance is of a high standard.
Develop operations to eliminate waste, cut costs and improve delivery times.
Drive initiatives with the data analysts to continuously improve merchant performance and implement data driven recommendations and strategies.
Manage team of junior operations managers and analysts to maintain the day to day operations of the marketplace.
Attributes required Process-oriented, using data to drive decisionsAbility to manage a team to meet deadlines, drive operational excellenceSelf- starter - be able to take guidance and develop own solutions in sometimes ambiguous circumstancesKeen interest in 4th generation technology and building automationExperience in lean operations and six-sigmaPassionate about and the potential of e-commerceExcellent verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder managementStrong prioritization and time management skillsQualifications and Experience Industrial Engineering or similar degree in Operations ManagementMinimum 5 years of experience2+ years of managing a teamHigh proficiency in advanced ExcelSQL is a plusExperience in an e-commerce environment is a plusLean, Six Sigma and Process optimizationThe Environment and

Company Culture:
employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of 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 improveWe are short on ego and high on outputWe are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after allWe love what we do and what we are creatingWe seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

is respectful but forthrightis an expert at doing, who can not only design but also executeis analytical, able to use data to make decisionsis competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hoursis passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experienceis entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and fasteris business SMART.

Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;is curious and challenge the status quois innovative and enjoys iterationis collaborativewill be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.

comthinks like an owner of the businessis SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKINGIf you meet the above criteria and are an Extraordinary Mind, come and join us
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

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