Data Compliance Specialist

a leading South African online retailer is looking for a highly talentedData Compliance Specialist 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 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 role reports to the Data Compliance Team leader and is a unique opportunity to work in a high-performance Specialist B2B & B2C environment supporting the Takealot group.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Address and escalate Data Subject requests via all applicable incoming channels.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders to resolve tracking of data requests.
• Conduct eligibility checks for Data requests.
• Provide ideas/actions to drive process & system improvement about data subject contacts across the
• Manage/adhere all SLAs about POPI data requests.
• Carry out internal audit procedures regularly about internal compliance practices including SOPs & Policy changes for new and existing features across brands.
• Review and identify data subject information to support the Information Officer.
• Work with management and staff to identify and manage regulatory risk.

Qualifications & Experience required:

• Senior Certificate or Higher
• Minimum 2 years of strong experience in a specialist role
• Excel SQL Zendesk experience
• Experience in e-commerce start-up tech or platform environment
• Complaints handling

Skills required:

• Customer Obsessed.
• Pragmatic & Organised.
• Strong prioritisation and time management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Great interpersonal skills and a strong team player.
• Stakeholder management is a plus!

Attributes required:

• Solutions-oriented - you have a can-do attitude and high energy.
• Iterative & innovative thinking - a love for problem-solving keen to learn and ability to think on your feet.
• Comfortable in a start-up environment fast-paced dynamic with many uncertainties!
• Analytical mindset. You can use data to inform decisions if required.
• Operate with high levels of integrity and discretion
• Demonstrate accuracy & high levels of attention to detail

The Environment:

• employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customer-centric and fun and have the shared ambition of 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 its 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 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 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 accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• can 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 .
• 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 previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.