Engineering Director: Fulfilment
Takealot Group, South Africa +1
About the job
Takealot Group, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a seasoned Software Engineering Director: Fulfilment to join the Group’s senior technical leadership team.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!
Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
- Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
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This position reports to the Senior Director of Group Fulfillment. Peers include the Director of Logistics, Directors of Supply Chain, Senior Operations Management, Senior QA Leadership, and Principal Engineering for Group Fulfilment.
This role will oversee the three engineering teams responsible for the maintenance and ongoing development of Takealot Group’s fulfilment systems. This person is ultimately responsible for the systems that ensure the orchestration between our warehousing (WMS) and logistics (Routing and Courier Allocation) systems. This area is also responsible for Takealot Fulfillment Solutions (TFS) client onboarding and management. It is the ideal role for someone to sit between operations and the customer. The role will be responsible for driving the division’s technical strategy to both innovate and manage risks spanning efficiency, scalability, security, performance, and uptime.