takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Business Strategy Analyst to join our team in Cape Town.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, young, creative, hard working people to join us.
We offer market related benefits, 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 role reports into the Head of Business Development.
Your responsibilities will include: Providing the research and analysis required to develop robust businesses cases for new opportunities to grow the businessAssembling and analysing the data to determine the size of the market for new conceptsResearching how solutions are being implemented locally and internationallyUsing online tools and resources as well as identifying and engaging other information sourcesBuilding Excel models to quantify the size of opportunitiesApplying creative problem solving to develop solutionsDeveloping the high-level functional requirements that the business would need to implement the opportunity.You will need to work with specialists across the business to understand what is needed to practically implement ideasBuilding implementation plans and budgets for the execution of new projectsProject managing the implementation of selected opportunities Attributes: Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energyStrong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisionsAbility to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problemsSolid quantitative skillsAbility to interview and interact professionally with internal and external peopleCapability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verballyVersatile and with the appetite to learn by doing Qualifications & Experience: Bachelor's degree required, with a major in a quantitative subject, Postgraduate degree preferred3 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g.
in e-commerce, consulting, engineering)Top academic resultsCompetence in Excel 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. We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
is forthright but respectfulis an expert at doing, who can not only design but also executeis analytical, able to use data to make decisionsis competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hoursis passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experienceis entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and fasteris able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical andproduct inputis curious and challenge the status quois innovative and enjoys iterationis collaborativewill be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.comthinks like an owner of the businessis SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING
