takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Business Strategy Analyst to join our team in Cape Town.

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

This role reports into the Head of Business Development.

Your responsibilities will include:

Providing the research and analysis required to develop robust businesses cases for new opportunities to grow the business
Assembling and analysing the data to determine the size of the market for new concepts
Researching how solutions are being implemented locally and internationally
Using online tools and resources as well as identifying and engaging other information sources
Building Excel models to quantify the size of opportunities
Applying creative problem solving to develop solutions
Developing the high-level functional requirements that the business would need to implement the opportunity.
You will need to work with specialists across the business to understand what is needed to practically implement ideas
Building implementation plans and budgets for the execution of new projects
Project managing the implementation of selected opportunities

Attributes:

Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
Ability to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
Solid quantitative skills
Ability to interview and interact professionally with internal and external people
Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelor’s degree required, with a major in a quantitative subject, Postgraduate degree preferred
3 years of experience in an analytical role (e.g. in e-commerce, consulting, engineering)
Top academic results
Competence in Excel

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 forthright but respectful
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 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 HARDWORKING

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

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

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  Assembling and analysing the data to determine the size of the market for new concepts
  Building models to quantify the size of opportunities
  Developing the high-level functional requirements that business would need to implement an identified opportunity
  Building implementation plans and budgets for the execution of new projects
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