Location

Johannesburg Warehouse

Company Overview

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented DC Champion to join our team at the Johannesburg Warehouse.

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

Department Manager – Outbound

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the department is well organized and controlled to sufficiently support the goals of the business.
• Implement improvement processes and maintain procedures and systems to minimize costs and maximize working capital.
• Ensuring all work areas are clean, tidy, and safe for staff to work in (Housekeeping).
• Evaluate daily operational reports to ensure key critical areas of the department are controlled and any discrepancies addressed and resolved.
• Manage control measures to ensure mistakes, inaccuracies, and discrepancies are highlighted, addressed, and resolved.
• Ensure that all processes are completed on the same day. Daily planning with line Managers.
• Oversee the DC Assistants and motivate attention to detail, for constant accuracy and turn-around times.
• Assist with managing outputs within the department. Maintaining quality and quantity of work.
• Assist to maintain FIFO of tasks within the department.
• Ensure escalated daily operational queries from the team are resolved timeously.
• Conduct daily group meetings and escalate any issues arising from them.
• Shift work when required.
• Understand all the aspects and processes related to Inbound.

Attributes Required

• Detailed understanding of warehouse management systems.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer-focused working environment.
• Excellent personal organization and business administration skills in accordance with modern best practice methods.
• Ability to work productively, efficiently & effectively with initiative and drive under tight timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality.
• Willingness to learn, improve and adapt.
• Good team player, hard worker, willing to be flexible with a positive attitude.
• Must be able to work as part of a multi-cultural team.
• Must be able to train staff.

Qualifications

• Matric/ Grade 12 or equivalent qualification.
• Tertiary qualification advantageous.
• Proven relevant experience in Picking, Packing, Receiving, Supplier Collects, and Inventory (in applicable departments within the DC).
• 4-5 years warehouse experience.
• 2 years supervisory experience/exposure would be advantageous.

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 Extraordinary 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.

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