Divisional Buying Manager

1 week ago

Cape Town, South Africa takealot.com Full time

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, young, creative, hardworking people to join us. We offer market related benefits, 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 Retail Buying.**

You will be responsible for managing a team of category buyers and driving growth and improving performance. This includes developing a category strategy for 'how to win', assessing market opportunities, managing the team to deliver against the strategy, building a team, and driving performance improvement initiatives throughout the team.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Develop a comprehensive strategy/plan to drive growth across the departments in brands, suppliers and new product selection
- Manage the execution against this plan and ensure teams prioritize strategic objectives
- Manage team against key financial and service level performance indicators within the department (sales, margin, rebates, listings availability, stock cover etc.)
- Profit & Loss management
- Develop range, forecast and stock management methodology to drive efficiencies within supply chain whilst maintaining and growing product selection
- Build & foster new and current supplier relationships, improve service level agreements and manage the team to deliver on stronger negotiations
- Identify and execute on performance/business growth initiatives
- Motivate and professionally develop your team, while ensuring appropriate succession planning
- Manage site-merchandising and work with the marketing team to develop promotional strategies for the division

**Attributes required**:

- Smart, analytical thinker
- Energetic, dynamic individual - can-do attitude, self-motivated
- Results oriented - Proven track record of delivering exceptional results

**Qualifications and experience**:

- 8+ years' experience in a high-performance environment
- 3+ years managerial experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Science, Commerce or Psychology required (Preferable Post-Graduate degree in Business)
- Strong competency in analytical tools
- Experience in building, managing and developing teams

**The Environment**:

- takealot employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot 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 forthright but respectful
- 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 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
- thinks like an owner of the business.
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

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._

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