Buyer (Pets)

Location: Cape Town
Job Type Classification: Permanent
Closing Date: Not Specified
Salary: market related

 

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Create a thorough plan or strategy to increase sales, suppliers, brands, and new product listings in the Petcare division.
  • Encourage innovation by identifying and giving new suppliers and brands top priority in accordance with the growth plan, market trends, and customer demands.
  • Achieve the department’s primary financial and service-level performance metrics (sales, margin, listings, availability, stock cover, etc.).
  • Develop and maintain connections with suppliers, bargain for better terms, enhance trade conditions, and oversee suppliers in accordance with stringent SLAs.
  • Create a marketing campaign, get amazing discounts, and oversee departmental site merchandising.
  • Assist the operations team in providing a top-notch client experience.
  • track department returns, assist the customer support staff with product inquiries, and address any grievances raised by customers.
  • Control inventory and availability, including restocking

Attributes required:

  • Self-motivated, solution-focused, and capable Strong critical and analytical thinking, the capacity to use data to guide decisions, find the source of an issue, and fix it
  • Good product and purchasing planning abilities
  • Capacity to set priorities in accordance with well-defined priorities and organized planning
  • Capacity to manage in accordance with SLAs and establish enduring relationships with suppliers (existing industry networks a bonus)
  • Excellent as a team player and adaptable
  • Enthusiastic about the sector and e-commerce’s potential
  • Knowledge of the main factors influencing internet retail industry
  • Commercial and entrepreneurial mindset

 

Qualifications and experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree (preferably in business science or commerce)
  • Three years or more of experience overseeing the pet care category in retail, business, or online
  • Excellent business sense
  • An important advantage is the presence of industrial networks.
  • demonstrated ability to negotiate and have excellent connection management

The Environment:

  • Employees at takealot.com are smart, fun, customer-focused, entrepreneurial,
  • and driven by the common goal of becoming Africa’s top e-commerce company.
  • We enjoy ourselves, take responsibility for our actions,
  • collaborate to find answers, and welcome candid criticism
  • and fresh suggestions on how we can get better.
  • We have a lot of productivity and little ego.
  • We are not just thinkers; we are doers as well; ultimately, everything comes down to execution.
  • We take great pride in the work we do and the things we create.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

  • is direct yet courteous,
  • skilled at what they do,
  • able to both create and carry out,
  • analytical, and capable of using facts to inform decisions strives to be the BEST,
  • is competitive, and is self-directed (GREAT takes a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours).
  • is enthusiastic about the possibilities of e-commerce and providing a top-notch customer experience;
  • entrepreneurial; thrives on change and accepts it as a constant; can think through problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
  • is inquisitive and challenges the status quo;
  • is creative and enjoys iteration;
  • is cooperative;
  • and will be at the forefront of creating new ideas for takealot.com.

 

 

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