Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Assistant Planner to join our Retail Planning Team in Cape Town.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative and 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 Planning.
Your responsibilities will include assisting Planners with the following:
- Placing supplier orders
- Oversee the In-stock function including demand planning, ordering and capacity management in line with department strategy
- Deliver accurate insights and reports on a timely basis on which department managers can base commercial decisions and deliver on revenue and margin plans
- Create sustainable In-stock systems and processes in partnership with central analytics, technical and product teams
- Compiling the annual retail sales budget, quarterly plan, working plan as well as on-going reforecasting at category and product levels to ensure budgets are achieved
- Managing end to end inventory availability and inventory health including: improved in-stock rates (availability), inventory planning at categorisation, systematic forecasting, markdown and clearance provisions, return to supplier activities and warehouse space management
Attributes required:
- Strong willingness to learn
- Entrepreneurial / Commercial mindset
- Attention to detail
- Organised and ability to prioritise
- Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma (Commerce, Finance, Mathematics or Economics degree preferable)
- At least 1 year related retail / commerce experience
- High proficiency in Excel
- Retail buying/e-commerce experience preferable but not an absolute requirement
- Existing industry networks a significant plus
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 Extraordinary 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 strives to be the BEST
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives under change, 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 HARD WORKING
If 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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