Assistant Central Planner

Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is seeking a highly talented Assistant Planner to join our Retail Planning Team in Cape Town. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative and 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. The position reports to the Head of Planning Deliver accurate insights and reports on a timely basis, on which department managers can base commercial decisions and deliver on revenue and margin plans Compiling the annual retail sales budget, quarterly plan, working plan as well as on-going reforecasting at category and product levels to ensure budgets are achieved Managing end-to-end inventory availability and inventory health, including: improved in-stock rates (availability), inventory planning at categorisation, systematic forecasting, markdown and clearance provisions, return to supplier activities and warehouse space management Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma (Commerce, Finance, Mathematics or Economics degree preferable) At least 1 year of related retail/commerce experience Excel sheets knowledge 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 respectful but forthright 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 produ