Job Title: DC Champion

Location: Johannesburg Warehouse

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 the 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 turnaround 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

• Have a detailed understanding of warehouse management systems
• Problem-solving skills required
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer-focused working environment
• Possess excellent personal organization and business administration skills in accordance with modern best practice methods
• Possess the ability to work productively, efficiently & effectively with initiative and drive under tight timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality
• Possess the 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 equal qualification
• Tertiary qualification advantageous
• Have 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 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 strive 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!