Assistant Central Planner

a leading South African online retailer is seeking a highly talented Assistant Plannerto join our Retail Planning Team in Cape Town.

We are a young dynamic hyper-growth company looking for smart creative and 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.

The position reports to the Head of Planning

Your responsibilities will include:

• Placing supplier orders
• Assisting Planners with the following:
• Oversee the In-stock function including demand planning ordering and capacity management in line with department strategy
• Deliver accurate insights and reports on a timely basis on which department managers can base commercial decisions and deliver on revenue and margin plans
• Create sustainable In-stock systems and processes in partnership with central analytics technical and product teams
• Compiling the annual retail sales budget quarterly plan working plan as well as on-going reforecasting at category and product levels to ensure budgets are achieved
• Managing end-to-end inventory availability and inventory health including: improved in-stock rates (availability) inventory planning at categorisation systematic forecasting markdown and clearance provisions return to supplier activities and warehouse space management

Attributes required:

• Strong willingness to learn
• Entrepreneurial / Commercial mindset
• Attention to detail
• Organised and ability to prioritise
• Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma (Commerce Finance Mathematics or Economics degree preferable)
• At least 1 year of related retail/commerce experience
• Excel sheets knowledge

The Environment:

• employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customer-centric 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 anExtra 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
• ispassionate about the potential of e-commerceand delivering aworld-class customer experience
• isentrepreneurial thrives under changeand accepts it is a constant and alwayslooks for solutionsto 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 challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for
• thinks like an ownerof the business
• isSMART has INTEGRITYand isHARD WORKING

If you meet the above criteria and are anExtraordinary Mind come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.