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<p>takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented <strong>Seller Support Specialist</strong> - <strong>FTC </strong>to join our team in Cape Town.</p>
<p>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 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 role reports to a Seller Support Team Leader and is a unique opportunity to work in a high-performance B2B start-up environment. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Your responsibilities will include:</strong></p>
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<li>Address and escalate Marketplace seller & customer queries via tickets & phone calls.</li>
<li>Engage with internal Takealot stakeholders to resolve Marketplace queries.</li>
<li>Assist with ad-hoc data capturing and admin tasks as required.</li>
<li>Provide ideas to drive process & system improvement across Takealot Marketplace.</li>
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<p><strong>Skills required:</strong></p>
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<li>Customer Obsessed.</li>
<li>Pragmatic & Organised.</li>
<li>Strong prioritization and time management skills.</li>
<li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills.</li>
<li>Great interpersonal skills and strong team player.</li>
<li>Stakeholder management is a plus! </li>
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<p><strong>Attributes required:</strong></p>
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<li>Thinks like an owner.</li>
<li>Solutions-oriented - you have a can-do attitude and high energy.</li>
<li>Curious, a love for problem-solving, learning and the ability to think on your feet.</li>
<li>Comfortable in a start-up environment – fast-paced, dynamic, with many uncertainties!</li>
<li>Analytical mindset. You can use data to inform decisions if required.</li>
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<p><strong>Qualifications & Experience required:</strong></p>
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<li>Senior Certificate or Higher.</li>
<li>Minimum 3 years experience in a customer service role. </li>
<li>Excel, SQL, and Zendesk experience (advantageous).</li>
<li>Experience in an e-commerce, start-up, tech or platform environment (advantageous).</li>
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<p><strong>The Environment</strong>:</p>
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<li>takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, and 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>
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<p class="p1">We seek to Employ an <strong>Extra Ordinary Mind</strong> who:</p>
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<li>is respectful but forthright</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 strives 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>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 challenges 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 HARD WORKING</strong></li>
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<p>If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind, so join us!</p>
<p><em>Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.</em></p>
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