Buyer's Assistant

1 week ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa takealot Full time R46 800 - R300 000 per year

, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented
Buyer's Assistan
t 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.

You will be reporting to the Division Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:

  • Supporting the division in all administrative functions linked to order processing and buying plans
  • Auditing availability, selection and pricing of market best sellers and new releases on the site
  • Supporting merchandising checks: Checking customer reviews, links and newsletters
  • Managing customer queries and escalating as necessary

Attributes required:

  • Attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
  • Organised, ability to prioritise
  • Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated
  • Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems

Qualifications required:

  • Bachelor's degree (Business Science or Commerce degree preferable)
  • At least 1 year of related retail/commerce experience
  • Existing industry networks (advantageous)
  • Competency in MS Office packages, particularly Excel
  • Retail buying/e-commerce experience is preferable but not an absolute requirement.

The Environment
:

  • 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 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
  • 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

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