DC Champion Inbound

<p><strong>takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for&nbsp; highly talented DC Champion to join our team at the Johannesburg DC</strong></p> <p>We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us.&nbsp; 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>Reporting to the Shift Manager</strong></p> <p><strong>Your responsibilities will include:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ensure that the department is well organized and controlled to sufficiently support the goals of the business</li> <li>Implement improvement processes and maintain procedures and systems to minimize costs and maximize working capital</li> <li>Ensuring all work areas are clean and tidy and safe for staff to work in</li> <li>Evaluate daily operational reports to ensure key critical areas of the department are controlled and any discrepancies addressed and resolved.</li> <li>Manage control measures to ensure mistakes, inaccuracies and discrepancies are highlighted, addressed and resolved.</li> <li>Ensure that all processes are completed on the same day. Daily planning with line Managers</li> <li>Oversee the DC Assistants and motivate attention to detail, for constant accuracy and turn-around times.</li> <li>Assist with managing outputs within the department. Maintaining quality and quantity of work.</li> <li>Ensure productive targets are met</li> <li>Assist to maintain FIFO of tasks within the department.</li> <li>Ensure escalated daily operational queries from team are resolved timeously</li> </ul> <p><strong>Attributes required:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Have a detailed understanding of warehouse management systems</li> <li>Problem solving skills required</li> <li>Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer focused working environment.</li> <li>Possess excellent personal organisation and business administration skills in accordance with modern best practice methods.</li> <li>Possess the ability to work productively, efficiently &amp; effectively with initiative and drive under tight timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality.</li> <li>Possess the willingness to learn, improve and adapt.</li> <li>Good team player, hard worker, willing to be flexible with a positive attitude Must be able to work as part of a multi-cultural team</li> <li>Must be able to train staff</li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications and Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Matric</li> <li>Have proven relevant experience in Picking, Packing, Receiving, Supplier Collects (in applicable departments within the DC)</li> <li>4-5 years warehouse experience</li> <li>2 years supervisory experience/exposure would be advantageous</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <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, it’s all in the execution after all.</li> <li>We love what we do and what we are creating.</li> </ul> <p>We seek to Employ an <strong>Extra Ordinary Mind</strong> who:</p> <ul> <li>is forthright but respectful</li> <li>is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute</li> <li>is analytical, able to use data to make decisions</li> <li>is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours</li> <li>is <strong>passionate about the potential of e-commerce</strong> and delivering a <strong>world-class customer experience</strong></li> <li>is <strong>entrepreneurial</strong>, <strong>thrives under change</strong> and accepts it is a constant and always <strong>looks for solutions</strong> to do something better and faster</li> <li>is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input</li> <li>is curious and challenge the status quo</li> <li>is innovative and enjoys iteration</li> <li>is collaborative</li> <li>will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.</li> <li><strong>thinks like an owner</strong> of the business.</li> <li>is <strong>SMART, has INTEGRITY</strong> and <strong>is HARDWORKING</strong></li> </ul> <p>If you meet the above you are an <strong>Extraordinary Mind</strong> so come and join us!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.</em></p>