takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented DC Analyst 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 won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

Reporting to the Operations Analytics Manager. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Continuously analyse returns, Recovery and RFC operational data
• Set up appropriate dashboards
• Develop reports and KPI
• Align with systems engineers
• Set up and configure systems
• Build operational dashboards
• Build production reports
• Build real time Apps to capture exceptions
• Exceptions management
• Offer innovation and challenge current process
• Identify business and operational opportunities

Attributes required:

• High numeracy affinity
• Proficient on MS office
• Highly proficient on WMS or ERP system
• Solid competency on statistical calculations
• Ability to build models and financial business cases
• Previous experience building dashboards
• Previous experience building operational reports
• Data analysis
• SQL experience
• App building experience
• Solid process minded – ability to conceptualise the operational environment
• Simulations
• Financial acumen
• Work in groups
   

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Engineering or Business Management
• Data management / Quantitative course
• At least 3-5 years’ experience as an Analyst

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com 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, it's all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra 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)
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to 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 takealot.com
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING

If you meet the above criteria, 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.