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Business Process Specialist
takealotcom
Cape Town
Description
<p>takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented <strong>Business Process Specialist - Marketplace </strong>to join our <strong>Head Office </strong>in <strong>Cape Town.</strong></p>
<p>We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking 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.</p>
<p><strong>This position reports to: Marketplace Operations Manager </strong></p>
<p><strong>Your responsibilities will include: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Evaluate core processes within the Marketplace operations and integrate them in a unique and creative way to solve business problems.</li>
<li>Collaborate and communicate the above mentioned with Head of Departments (HODs) and Development team.</li>
<li>Performing routine audits of systems and operational processes. </li>
<li>Advise on improvements of Key Performance Indicators that impacts operations and processes with different stakeholders. </li>
<li>Conduct RCA to identify uncommon and everyday issues within Marketplace operations.</li>
<li>Perform data analysis to identify opportunities and risks in storage optimisation; material handling and process conformance.</li>
<li>Capture; design and make recommendations to process flow through risk, security and productivity gap analysis. Develop and maintain work standards and characteristics that promote efficient staff and facility utilization.</li>
<li>Design, implement and maintain 5s initiatives across all departments.</li>
<li>Develop in-house forecasting models for packaging, consumables, assets and labour based on volumes and budget. </li>
<li>Support continuous improvement projects and initiatives by actively adhering to lean principles, design of experiments (ex: Six Sigma; Simulation design etc.)</li>
<li>Assist in identifying facility design requirements based on activity levels, flow and business requirements.</li>
<li>Development and construction of tools to aid operations in their day to day activities.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Minimum Required Qualification</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Industrial Engineering, B.Comm Logistics or similar degree preferred</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Minimum Required Experience</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Minimum 3 years relevant experience within Supply Chain and Logistics, Process Improvement.</li>
<li>Previous experience with WMS systems such as Logfire, Manhattan, Red Prairie, SAP, Highjump or similar </li>
<li>High level of proficiency with MS Office packages/ Google Forums</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Minimum Required Competencies</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems</li>
<li>Critical and Systems thinking. </li>
<li>Passionate about change and improvement.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Skills, knowledge & abilities</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated. Attention to detail</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.</li>
<li>Previous experience in project management. Comfortable with change and excellent team player.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>The Environment</strong>: </p>
<ul>
<li>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. </li>
<li>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. </li>
<li>We are short on ego and high on output. </li>
<li>We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all. </li>
<li>We love what we do and what we are creating.</li>
<li>We seek to employ an <strong>Extra Ordinary Mind </strong>who is Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking. </li>
</ul>
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