Inbound Operations Coordinator

MBA-Exchange.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading South African online retailer is seeking an Inbound Operations Coordinator in Cape Town. The role involves supporting administrative functions, managing customer order queries, and ensuring timely communication. Candidates should have strong organisational skills, a solutions-oriented attitude, and relevant experience. This position offers a vibrant work environment with a focus on e-commerce innovation.

Qualifications

• Must have solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and be self-motivated.
• Must demonstrate strong organisational and prioritisation skills.
• Excellent written and spoken communication required.

Responsibilities

• Support all administrative and coordinative functions in line with SOPs.
• Manage customer order queries and complaints efficiently.
• Ensure timely communication of order status to customers.

Skills

Solutions-oriented attitude

Strong organisational skills

Attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Ability to interact at all levels

Education

Matric

At least 2 years relevant industry experience

Competency in MS Office packages

Relevant tertiary qualifications

Job description

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Inbound Operations Coordinator 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.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the department across all required administrative and coordinative functions and duties in line with SOPs, policies, & procedures.
• Supporting the customer service & buying teams in resolving:
• Customer order queries;
• Complaints and associated resolution, including root cause analysis;
• Supplier delivery issues & queries.
• Ensuring customers receive their orders on time, according to expectations, and that they are proactively updated and communicated to on the status and any changes to their orders.
• Management of all assigned Inbound queries
• Processing created purchase orders on time, tracking these orders, and managing suppliers and delivery to ensure stock availability and delivery date
• Continuous follow-up on all orders to identify unconfirmed and late shipments impacting customer orders.
• Managing IBTs, responding to stock availability & supplier delivery issues and liaising with the distribution centers to ensure customers receive orders on time.

Attributes:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated
• Strong organisational & prioritisation skills
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Ability to interact with internal & external stakeholders at all levels
• Comfortable with change and excellent team player
• Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems

Qualifications:

• Matric
• At least 2 year relevant industry experience
• Competency in MS Office packages
• Relevant tertiary qualifications a plus

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 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 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

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

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.