Retail Admin Assistant - Takealot.com

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Retail Admin Assistant 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.

Reporting to the Division Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the division in all administrative functions linked to order processing and buy plans
• Auditing availability, selection and pricing of market best sellers and new releases on the site
• Supporting on 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 (preferences will be given to candidates with):

• Bachelor's degree (Business Science or Commerce degree preferable)
• At least 1 year related retail / commerce experience
• Competency in MS Office packages, particularly 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, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.a

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