Sales and Account Manager

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Sales and Account Manager to join our team in Johannesburg/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.

Reporting to the Sales and Account Manager Team Lead.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Deliver on Marketplace sales and selection targets focused on 3^rd party seller acquisition, growth and retention, by:
• Creating and maintaining a robust sales pipeline with focus on key strategic sellers
• Recruiting new sellers and maximising results of existing sellers
• Building lasting seller relationships
• Driving the success of sellers by actively increasing and retaining sales and product selection
• Exceeding sales goals
• Travelling within South Africa (Monthly)
• Work closely with Category Managers to drive product assortment in line with the category selection strategy
• Create executable actions by managing data

Attributes required:

• Ability to go beyond what is expected
• Commercially-minded, strong negotiator
• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude; self-motivated
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Passionate about takealot.com and the potential of marketplace
• Ability to develop senior level relationships quickly and effectively
• Strong prioritization and time management skills
• Comfortable with change and excellent team player
• Ability to manage multiple opportunities simultaneously

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3 - 5 years solution sales experience, preferably in the retail and/ software solutions industry
• Experience presenting to senior managers & the C-suite
• Proven track record of delivering results
• Competence in Excel
• Experience in an e-commerce environment is a plus

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, it's 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 entrepreneurial, thrives 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