Buyer's Assistant

South Africas leading online retailer is looking for a capable Buyers Assistant to join our Beauty Retail 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 Divisional Buying Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the division in all administrative functions linked to order processing and buy
• plans
• Auditing availability selection and pricing of market best sellers and new releases on the site
• Supporting on merchandising checks: Checking customer reviews links and newsletters
• Managing customer queries and escalating as necessary

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelors degree (Business Science or Commerce degree preferable)
• At least 1-year related retail / commerce experience
• Competency in MS Office packages particularly Excel
• Retail buying/e-commerce experience preferable but not an absolute requirement

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

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 an Extra Ordinary Mind whois Smart has Integrityand is Hardworking.

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities to apply.