Buyer's Assistant

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Buyer's 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.

You will reporting to the Divisional Buying 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 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 required:

• Bachelor's degree (Business Science or Commerce degree preferable)
• At least 1 year of related retail/commerce experience
• Competency in MS Office packages, particularly Excel
• Retail buying/e-commerce experience is preferable but not an absolute requirement
• Existing industry networks are a significant plus

The Environment:

• Takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial, dynamic, smart, customer-centric, and fun, and they share the ambition of making Takealot.com 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.

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind, so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference