DC Champion Inbound

Reporting to the Shift Manager

Your responsibilities will include

• Ensure that the department is well organized and controlled to sufficiently support the goals of the business
• Implement improvement processes and maintain procedures and systems to minimize costs and maximize 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.
• Ensure productive targets are met
• Assist to maintain FIFO of tasks within the department.
• Ensure escalated daily operational queries from team are resolved timeously

Attributes required

• 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

Qualifications and Experience

• Matric
• Have proven relevant experience in Picking, Packing, Receiving, Supplier Collects in applicable departments within the DC
• 4-5 years warehouse experience
• 2 years supervisory experience/exposure would be advantageous

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 forthright but respectful
• 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 HARDWORKING