Hub Manager

takealot.com; Polokwane; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Takealot Group is seeking a Hub Manager for its Limpopo operations to oversee dispatch, receipt and parcel management. The role focuses on timeliness, efficiency and cost effectiveness within Takealot Fulfilment Solutions.

Reporting to the Primary Logistics: General Manager, you will lead warehousing activities, data reporting, and ensure high service quality while promoting health and safety standards across the team.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in logistics management.
• Matric with 8–10 years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee dispatch, receipt and management of parcels.
• Ensure timely, efficient warehousing and cost control.
• Train and supervise staff; enforce health and safety standards.
• Generate performance reports and support decision making.
• Collaborate with senior management to resolve issues and ensure service quality.
• Maintain documentation for order filling and delivery/receiving.
• Identify value-creation opportunities in movement and distribution.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization in work areas.
• Handle maintenance/repairs for machinery.

Skills

Logistics management

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Team leadership

Education

Degree or Diploma in logistics Management

Matric (Grade 12)

Job description

Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS), a division of Takealot Online (RF) (Pty) Ltd, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Hub Manager to join our team in Limpopo.

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 Primary Logistics: General Manager

Purpose of the role: Responsible for the dispatch, receipt and management of parcels within Takealot. Its primary objectives therefore center on timeliness, efficiency and cost effectiveness.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Identified, distributed or delivered, and properly stored in designated locations.
• Ensures efficient warehousing with timely movement of product.
• Extracts data and generates reports that assist in performance tracking and decision making.
• Oversee proper execution and accurate documentation of order filling, transporting and
• delivery/receiving.
• Trains and supervises employees to carry out the functions under their control.
• Implement health and safety standards.
• Must continually work to promote the orderliness and cleanliness of their work area and other
• company standards
• Identifies value-creation opportunities for the company in the movement and distribution of
• the product.
• Works closely with senior management and Human Resources to resolve issues and ensure
• quality service to our customers.
• Oversee maintenance, repairs, or replacements for machine
• Perform all other duties as assigned

Qualification & Experience

• Degree or Diploma in logistics Management
• Matric and 8 - 10 Years of related work and knowledge

Attributes Required

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer focused working environment
• Possess excellent personal organization 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 multicultural team
• Good written and oral communication skills.

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.
• We seek to employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who is Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking.

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.