Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Marketplace Program Manager: Brand Program 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 is a position reporting to theMarketplace Operations Manager .
Your responsibilities will include
- Design and implement processes for the onboarding of new brands.
- Develop and implement initiatives to support brand development and growth.
- Negotiate and manage current growth incentive contracts, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
- Lead cross-functional teams to launch and manage new growth incentives for brands, aligning with our marketplace's integrity and appeal.
- Design and execute commercial solutions that incentivize brand investments in stock, marketing, and advertising, enhancing their visibility and success on our platform.
- Develop strategies for brand protection, including for sellers with approved trademarks, authorized resellers, and those with trademarks in progress.
- Collaborate with Legal, Promotions and Marketing teams to design features, services, and operational solutions that support brand investments and retention.
- Ensuring robust brand-level controls with sellers
- Monitor and report on the performance of growth, making strategic adjustments on incentives and/or current fees, to meet revenue targets and enhance the seller and Takealot brand profitability
Attributes required
- Project Management skills and qualifications
- Strong with data and analytics
- Strong leadership and cross functional management skills with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, or related field
- Additional qualification in project management preferred
- 3+ years of experience in e-commerce, retail, or brand marketing
- Experience in contracts, rebates and negotiations
- Proven ability to design and execute new processes, strategies, and commercial solutions
The Environment and Company Culture:
- 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 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 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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