TDT Project Engineer

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Cape Town, Western Cape
5-7 Years Experience
eCommerce • Retail
The Role
The TDT Project Engineer initiates and implements continuous improvement projects within the TDT network, operationalizes new business initiatives, coordinates changes for business expansion, and manages stakeholder communication to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.
Summary Generated by Built In

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented TDT Project Engineer to join our Cape Town Team.

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

This position reports to the TDT Project Manager.

Your responsibilities will include: 

  • Initiating and implementing continuous improvement projects across the TDT network to improve efficiency and reduce cost;
  • Operationalizing new business development initiatives within the TDT network;
  • Coordinating changes required in the TDT network in support of business expansion;;
  • Investigating, establishing and implementing standardized resources across the TDT network;
  • Working cross functionally with internal and external stakeholders to optimise total delivery lead-time and logistics cost; and
  • Active Stakeholder Management by ensuring clear communication channels are maintained between all parties involved in improvement projects.

Attributes required:

  • Logistics supply chain experience;
  • Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders;
  • Ability to interpret complex operational environments, identify problem areas and project manage the implement of leading edge solutions;
  • Quantitative analytical capability, with a strong grasp of management and cost accounting principles and metrics;
  • Good leadership and team development skills; and
  • High degree of personal motivation and resilience.

Qualifications and Experience: 

  • BEng Industrial or Logistics degree
  • Minimum 3 – 5 years within Logistics / Supply Chain
  • Sound operational background within logistics management
  • Proven track record of success in delivering projects against operational and profit targets
  • Experience of managing both internal and external stakeholders

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, its 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 entrepreneurialthrives 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 challenge 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 HARD WORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind, so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference. 

The Company
Cape Town
5,026 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Takealot.com is the leading eCommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative eCommerce retailers on the African continent. Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that our customer comes first. Need help or have a question? Reach out to us via our Help Center for assistance https://www.takealot.com/help-centre Our focus is dedicated to improving the customer experience, from the moment they arrive on our website to the moment they receive their order. By aligning ourselves to this philosophy, we believe Takealot will be the #1 shopping destination across Africa.

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