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takealot.com
Junior Shift Manager
Johannesburg
October 28, 2024
takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Junior Shift Manager to join our Supply Chain team in Johannesburg Warehouse.
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 Outbound Shift Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
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 Outbound Shift Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Outbound KPI's – Customer orders to be shipped by 5pm daily
- Picking and Packing Producitiviy – Ensure that we meet company targets
- Cost control – manage labour / heads on shift vs volumes and hours
- Packing costs – manage usage on floor
- Housekeeping – manage the team to ensure they keep area's within standards
- Goals – ensure that each individual has a clear understanding of their goals
- Review internal processes and continue to iterate and innovate to improve department continuously
- Apply our company values into daily tasks
- Strong communications skills
- A structured and disciplined management style
- Ability to motivate and inspire others is critical
- Strong problem solving skills
- Self-starter with high energy levels a must
- Well-developed business and operational acumen
- Analytically minded and able to find and use data to inform decision making
- Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines
- Good attention to detail
- Strong Customer Service orientation
- Goal orientated and motivated to succeed
- Dynamic individual with proven experience in delivering change and innovative solutions
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Preferred experience in:
- E-commerce experience
- ERP systems knowledge
- Experience in working with budgets and cost analysis
- LEAN or continuous improvement
- Performance management skills – knowledge of Industrial Relations and practices
- Grade 12 – National Senior Certificate
- Supply Chain or Logistics higher certificate is preferred.
- 3-5 years Supervisory experience in logistics or distribution environment
- People management experience, good oral and written communication skills
- Decision making and problem solving ability
- Ability to manage change within a logistics operation
- Will commit and achieve targets and project timelines.
- Willing to work shifts, including weekends if necessary, in an operational 7/365 environment
- Self-starter with high energy levels a must
- Must be able to work as part of a multi-cultural team
In addition to the Environment below, please past whatever else you think would be useful for an interviewer to know in order to sell the job to the candidate.
The Environment:
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, its all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
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