Teams at takealot.com

Leads three engineering teams responsible for fulfilment systems, including warehouse and logistics orchestration, client onboarding, and platform reliability. Owns technical strategy, architecture, scalability, security, performance, uptime, operational excellence, project delivery, budgets, hiring, team development, and stakeholder communication. Requires extensive engineering leadership experience and expertise in APIs, microservices, databases, event-driven architecture, and distributed high-transaction systems.

Oversee Homeware demand planning, ordering, inventory availability, forecasting, budgeting, replenishment, and supplier performance. Deliver commercial insights, manage stock health and margin improvement, develop planning processes with analytics and product teams, and lead buying assistants. Support procurement cycles, warehouse capacity, markdowns, returns, and customer experience while driving operational excellence and profitability.

Supports warehouse operations across inbound, inventory, outbound, dispatch, and planning. Maintains SOPs and process documentation, prepares operational reports and dashboards, monitors KPIs, identifies improvement opportunities, and supports root-cause analysis and corrective actions. Collaborates with Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics, IT, Facilities, and Health & Safety teams during an 18-month internship in a distribution centre.