Senior Merchandising Lead, On-Demand Ecommerce

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

Benefits offered by this job

Market-related remuneration package

No doors office vibe

Online learning via Prosus Academy

Birthday leave

Confidential counselling services

Free parking

Job summary

Mr D, a division of the Takealot.com Group, in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Merchandising Associate to own merchandising for the On-Demand vertical and drive engagement and conversion across customer traffic to the app.

You'll curate hyperlocal merchandising strategies, collaborate with marketing, product, and tech teams, and lead a merchandising calendar to achieve commercial goals while refining SOPs for scalable processes.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification.
• 3–5 years’ experience in an Ecommerce Marketplace/Online B2B or Retail.
• 1–2 years leading a team (beneficial)

Responsibilities

• Own merchandising and promotional strategy across the Mr D On-Demand vertical
• Drive merchandising with a focus on maximising partner discoverability and conversion
• Create and execute on a Merchandising Calendar attributing measures of success for all campaigns
• Maximise the usage of the Mr D app merchandising inventory and report back on successes and learnings
• Run cross departmental sessions that focus on best practice partner curation
• Understand and report on the commercial impact of merchandising initiatives
• Manage merchandising team, planning sessions and calendars
• Work closely with the advertising teams to ensure execution of booked campaigns
• Continuously refine SOPs to enhance team productivity, eliminate redundancies, and create streamlined, scalable merchandising processes
• Assist and partner with the product team to identify and enhance merchandising features and optimize existing systems to improve operational efficiency and enhance the customer shopping experience
• Collaborate with the BI team to develop new merchandising metrics and improve data accessibility to enable evidence-based decisions for merchandising initiatives and inventory optimization

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytics tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Numbers & data analysis

Team player

Startup mindset

Strategic merchandising

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Tools

BI tools

Ecommerce dashboards

Job description

Mr D, a division of the Takealot.com Group, in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Merchandising Associate to own merchandising for the On-Demand vertical and drive engagement and conversion across customer traffic to the app.

You'll curate hyperlocal merchandising strategies, collaborate with marketing, product, and tech teams, and lead a merchandising calendar to achieve commercial goals while refining SOPs for scalable processes.