Promotions Coordinator - Cape Town, South Africa - takealot

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takealot
Verified Company
Cape Town, South Africa

3 weeks ago

Thabo Mthembu

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We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard working people to join us.

We offer market related benefits, 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 Promotions Operations Manager.

Your responsibilities will include:


  • Working closely with the Deals Buyer to execute a strategy that is heavily focussed on customer acquisition and promotional strategies
  • Overseeing the day to day management of the programme that will include; product selection, product listing, stock management and customer fulfilment as well as all admin relating to the above mentioned duties
  • Monitoring content to check for inaccuracies in product descriptions prices and photographic work and to ensure that the deals are ready in a timely manner
  • Developing strong working relations with colleagues in Buying, Marketing and other relevant functions
  • Identifying opportunity gaps with new products/suppliers (using competitor analysis and close reviews of market trends)
  • Tracking online sales progress by analysing sales statistics, conducting online traffic studies and analysing clickthru data.
  • Producing detailed sales reports on agreed metrics
  • Once role has been established sourcing promotional offers from existing products and supplier base
  • Managing and developing supplier relationships, negotiating good prices and ensuring service level agreements are maintained
  • Following up and/or solving Customer queries on a daily basis
  • Loading Deals in advance, updating the list price and subsidy the previous day as well as updating the next day to current cost
  • Managing Risk Checks of Deals and Deals running in current promotions
  • Managing newsletter selection which includes;
  • Stock management confirming with the Marketing Dept
  • Creating dynamic categories and frontsections for relevant Promotions
  • Updating/linking relevant creative artwork for deals and promotions

Attributes required:


  • Passionate about your work and confident that you are the person to truly execute and makes things happen.
  • You'll be selfmotivated, organised, proactive and used to working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
  • You'll have a work hard play hard ethic, will be sales and customer oriented and will have a proven ability to translate numerical results into action plans.
  • You'll have proven success within a team environment and remain happy to have a flexible 'handson' approach a style that is key to succeeding in the Deals Environment
  • Exceptionally entrepreneurial, with strong bias to action
  • Strong business acumen, supplier mindset and communication skills
  • Analytical ability, uses data to inform decisions
  • Strong prioritization and time management skills
  • Ability to work/thrive in a fast paced/high stress environment
  • Solutionsoriented
  • Collaborative
  • Flexible

Qualifications and Experience:


  • Relevant Business degree (preferred) or other Tertiary qualification (required)
  • Proven track record of strong results for any of the following: University projects, negotiation tactics, teamwork and other personal achievements.
  • Efficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Presentation Skills
  • Minimum 4 Years working experience in Retail or Wholesale environment in Sales and/or Marketing environment.

The Environment:


  • 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
Extraordinary Minds, people who are:

  • Experts at DOING, they can not only design but also execute
  • Analytical, able to use data to make decisions. Letting data decide but not consume
  • Competitive. Although innovation is important, GREAT requires a lot of work. This does not happen only in business hours
  • Curious. Always questioning the status quo
  • Not averse to risk
  • Business smart. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
  • Self directed, taking action based on own initiative
  • Collaborative
  • Thorough
  • User focused, always trying to understand a product from the users perspective
  • Able to communicate clearly and not afraid to voice an opinion, no matter how unpopular
Are you an
Extraordinary Mind if so come and join us
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