takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented DC Champion 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
This position reports to the Shift Manager
Purpose of the role:
- To Ensure that the department is well organised and controlled to sufficiently support the goals of the business
- Implement improvement processes and maintain procedures and systems to minimise costs and maximise working capital
- Ensuring all work areas are clean and tidy and safe for staff to work in
- Evaluate daily operational reports to ensure key critical areas of the department are controlled and any discrepancies addressed and resolved
- Manage control measures to ensure mistakes, inaccuracies and discrepancies are highlighted, addressed and resolved
- Ensure that all processes are completed on the same day
- Daily planning with line Managers
- Oversee the DC Assistants and motivate attention to detail, for constant accuracy and turn-around times
- Assist with managing outputs within the department
- Maintaining quality and quantity of work
- Assist to maintain FIFO of tasks within the department
- Ensure escalated daily operational queries from team are resolved timeously
Your responsibilities can include:
- Ensure that the department is well organised and controlled to sufficiently support the goals of the business
- Implement improvement processes and maintain procedures and systems to minimise costs and maximise working capital
- Ensuring all work areas are clean and tidy and safe for staff to work in
- Evaluate daily operational reports to ensure key critical areas of the department are controlled and any discrepancies addressed and resolved
- Manage control measures to ensure mistakes, inaccuracies and discrepancies are highlighted, addressed and resolved. Ensure that all processes are completed on the same day
- Daily planning with line Managers
- Oversee the DC Assistants and motivate attention to detail, for constant accuracy and turn-around times
- Assist with managing outputs within the department Maintaining quality and quantity of work
- Assist to maintain FIFO of tasks within the department
- Ensure escalated daily operational queries from team are resolved timeously
Qualifications and experience:
- Matric (grade 12) certificate or similar
- Have proven relevant experience in Picking, Packing, Receiving, Supplier Collects and Inventory (in applicable departments within the DC)
- 4-5 years warehouse experience
- 2 years supervisory experience/exposure
- Have a detailed understanding of warehouse management systems
- Problem solving skills required
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer focused working environment
- Possess excellent personal organisation and business administration skills in accordance with modern best practice methods
- Possess the ability to work productively, efficiently & effectively with initiative and drive under tight timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality
- Possess the willingness to learn, improve and adapt
- 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
- Must be able to train staff
Attributes required :
- 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 develop
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