Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for 3 highly talented Loss Prevention Lead's to join our Supply Chain team at the Johannesburg DC, CPT DC and KZN DC .
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking 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 position reports to the Risk and Security Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Inventory Management: Monitor inventory levels and discrepancies to identify potential shrinkage issues.
- Implement control measures to reduce losses due to theft, misplacement, or inaccuracies.
- Loss Prevention: Develop and implement loss prevention strategies and policies to mitigate theft, pilferage, and unauthorized access.
- Monitor security systems, including surveillance cameras and access control systems, to deter and detect suspicious activities.
- Risk Assessment: Identify potential operational risks that could lead to losses.
- Training and Education: Provide training to DC staff on loss prevention strategies. Raise awareness about security and safety best practices, encouraging a culture of vigilance and responsibility.
- Continuous Improvement: Regularly review loss prevention and safety protocols, recommending enhancements to keep up with evolving risks.
- Incident Management: Lead investigations into loss incidents, compiling evidence and conducting interviews as necessary.
- Escalate all findings to the Risk Manager for final guidance and action.
- Documentation and Record Keeping: Maintain accurate and detailed records of all loss prevention activities, incidents, and preventive measures taken. Ensure proper documentation for legal and compliance purposes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diplomas
- 3-5 years relevant experience
Attributes required:
- Must be hands-on and have a preventative mindset.
- Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated.
- Strong organizational & prioritization skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.
- Ability to interact with internal & external stakeholders at all levels.
- Comfortable with change and excellent team player.
- Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems.
- Be able to work in a pressured environment.
- Be able to complete tasks quickly & efficiently.
- Be willing to go the extra mile.
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, it's 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 business SMART, able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input.
- is curious and challenges 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 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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