Marketplace Promotions Buyer

Details of the offer

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Marketplace Promotions Buyer 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 position reports to the Head of Merchandising and Promotions Your responsibilities will include: Deliver against hard key commercial and service level performance indicatorsNegotiate promotional offers with our sellersDrive customer awareness of seller listings through promotional & deals leversBuild the deals/promotional pipeline in correct product mix (assortment and depth)Inventory availability management for promotional/deals linesMaintain and grow relationships with existing marketplace sellersContinuously assess industry and market trends locally and internationallyContribute to improvement and optimization of promotional & deals processes Plan and execute joint marketing activities with sellersWork closely with Divisions and Marketplace team to ensure strategic alignmentWork closely with Customer Service to resolve related queries  Attributes required: Ability to interpret data to make informed decisionsPassion and drive for reaching set goalsStrong negotiator with a merchant mind setStrong prioritization, planning skillsSmart creative, willingness to innovate / take calculated risksPassionate about retail Qualifications/Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Commerce and/or 5 years related industry experience in Buying, Business Development or SalesProven track record of negotiations and sourcingExisting industry networks advantageousCompetence in Excel in terms of data analysis  The Environment:
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 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 and product inputis curious and challenge the status quois innovative and enjoys iterationis collaborativewill 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


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