Site Merchandiser

takealot a leading South African online retailer is looking for a highly talented Site Merchandiser 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 wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This position reports to the Senior Site Merchandiser.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working closely with the Divisional Heads Discovery Team and Marketing to measure and direct onsite traffic to feature categories and product ranges that ensures continuous visibility of all inventory classes full margin products seasonal and trending products mark downs and new launches in line with business objectives.
• Optimise and work together with discovery team and catalogue product team to continuously improve the integrity of navigation on site app navigation and search optimisation.
• Measure and improve the performance of all site merchandising assets including landing pages and CMS tools by evaluating the performance of each merchandising initiative and deployment.
• Launch new strategic themes and merchandising assets including seasonal landing pages and anchor promotions.

Attributes required:

• Attention to detail and ability to manage a wide range of initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills both written and spoken
• Smart analytical thinker
• Innovative creative individual unafraid to take risks you ask difficult questions and challenge status quo
• Energetic dynamic individual cando attitude selfmotivated
• Curious and creative with a proven track record of delivering exceptional results

Qualifications and Experience:

• 3 years experience in a highperformance environment in merchandising content strategy and/or marketing.
• Ecommerce experience is advantageous.
• Bachelors Degree or Diploma required
• Strong competency in analytical tools
• Experience with website optimisation and engagement tools preferred.

The Environment:

• takealot employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customercentric fun and have the shared ambition of takealot being the leading ecommerce 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 its all in the after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extraordinary 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 selfdirected 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 ecommerce and delivering a worldclass 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.
• thinks like an owner of the business.
• is SMART has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

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.