takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented TDT Project Engineer to join our Cape Town Team.
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 TDT Project Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
Initiating and implementing continuous improvement projects across the TDT network to improve efficiency and reduce cost;
Operationalizing new business development initiatives within the TDT network;
Coordinating changes required in the TDT network in support of business expansion;
Investigating, establishing and implementing standardized resources across the TDT network;
Working cross functionally with internal and external stakeholders to optimise total delivery lead-time and logistics cost;
Active Stakeholder Management by ensuring clear communication channels are maintained between all parties involved in improvement projects.
Attributes required:
Logistics supply chain experience;
Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders;
Ability to interpret complex operational environments, identify problem areas and project manage the implementation of leading edge solutions;
Quantitative analytical capability, with a strong grasp of management and cost accounting principles and metrics;
Good leadership and team development skills;
High degree of personal motivation and resilience.
Qualifications and Experience:
BEng Industrial or Logistics degree;
Minimum 3 – 5 years within Logistics / Supply Chain;
Sound operational background within logistics management;
Proven track record of success in delivering projects against operational and profit targets;
Experience of managing both internal and external stakeholders.
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 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 strives 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 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.
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