Marketplace Analyst

takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented MARKETPLACE ANALYST  to join our team in Cape Town.

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 Commercial Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identify, design and implement operational automations for existing processes.


• Investigate data sources to identify inaccuracies, and develop data cleaning processes to correct these.


• Create bespoke analytics to advise business decisions.


• Work with BI team to design and implement monitoring.


• Regular reporting using BI tools, such as Looker.


• Identify opportunities for, then designing, implementing and maintaining new data-based systems and processes for streamlining operational inefficiencies and backlogs, and to create new operational functionality where needed.


• Solve ambiguous problems with less well-defined inputs and outputs; drive to the heart of the problem and identify root causes.


• Learn and understand the broad range of Takealot data resources and develop knowledge of how, when and which data sources to use.


• Document and maintain Marketplace shared knowledge and SOPs, providing technical detail, using the Takealot centralised knowledge repository.


• Provide hands-on guidance and teaching of technical knowledge and skills throughout the Marketplace team, such as advanced Excel, Google Sheets or writing SQL.

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor Degree or better in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience.


• 3 - 5 years experience in business analytics or similar role. 

Attributes Required:

• KNIME / alteryx / dataform or other ETL software or equivalent


• GoogleBigQuery OR SQL


• Strong Mathematics Skills


• Data wrangling and data scrubbing


• Data-obsessed, analytical and able to generate actionable insights driven by data analytics.


• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy


• Strong prioritization skills


• Exceptional attention to detail


• Strong aptitude to learn new systems


• Strong understanding of business processes, acumen and interlinked relationships


• Ability to approach problems logically and with good judgement to ensure the appropriate customer outcome


• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

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 Smart, has Integrity, and is Hardworking. 

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

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.