Merchandising & Promotional Curator at takealot.com

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Merchandising & Promotional Curator 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 Senior Site Merchandiser.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working closely with the Divisional Head and Department Managers to support the Retail & Marketplace strategy within each division. That means featuring key brands, key lines and facilitating clearing of stock where appropriate. Core to the role is to drive discoverability of these lines.
• Input into the promotion planning process and the creation of the Promotions Calendar by understanding the needs from their divisional stakeholders. This feedback is shared with the Promotions Operations Team.
• You are the primary contact between Retail-Marketplace and the Promotions & Merchandising team and need to make sure promotions and marketing priorities are correctly briefed and within the deadlines.
• You need to ensure optimal ranges & products are promoted - based on data from Search, Conversion, Trends, Retail strategy and Marketplace Strategy. 
• Besides Promotions and Marketing Priorities, you are expected to explore new ways to provide exposure to selected products - search banners, newsletters, push notifications and landing pages for example. In these non-promotional channels, you should aim to drive traffic to full margin products that are supported by data from Search, Conversion, Customer Agenda and Business Strategy.
• Review performance of promotional activities and drive continuous improvement of sales performance and discoverability.

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
• Curious and creative with a track record of making an impact
• Familiar with online shopping and trends in ecommerce 

 Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma (Business Science or Commerce preferable)
• At least 2 year’s related retail / commerce experience 
• Skilled in MS Office packages, particularly excel
• Retail buying/e-commerce experience preferable but not an absolute requirement

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 forthright but respectful
• 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
• able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• is curious and challenge 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 HARDWORKING