DC Administrator - Takealot

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Returns DC Administrator to join our team in our Johannesburg Warehouse.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking 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.

The position reports to the DC Returns Manager.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Overall responsibility for the planning and ordering of Operational materials within Distribution Centre
• Calculate resource requirements for the DC
• Keep records and monitor DC performance
• General Procurement for the DC

• Procurement and management of all packaging materials
• Procure all consumables in line with the agreed plans and schedules, place orders and process all documentation
• Hold regular meetings to align and engage all departmental managers to the plans
• Coordinate temporary staffing in line with the DC plans and schedules
• Develop staffing shift structured to support Dc operations
• Manager the relationship with Taxi operators and coordinate the transport requirements for staff
• Manage the relationship with the labour brokers
• Oversee the waste management function costs
• Responsible for the DC administration
• Process all DC invoices for payment and maintain a real time overview of expenses versus budget
• Management of time and attendance system
• Access control, loading of new staff
• Assist with financial budgets with weekly, monthly reporting
• Monitoring and highlighting of staff attendance.
• Ensure timesheets are completed accurately, signed and confirmed
• All overtime and acting allowance must be approved by the General Manager

Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years relevant experience within DC operations
• Previous experience with Biometric Time and Attendance systems such as Jarrison
• High level of proficiency with MS Office packages
• Comfortable with change and excellent team player
• Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems

Attributes required:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Previous experience in Stock Control and warehouse operations
• Comfortable with change and excellent team player.
• Comfortable with learning and adapting to new systems.
• Critical and Systems thinking.
• Passionate about change and improvement

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 challenges 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