--- title: "E-Commerce Beauty Buyer - Cosmetics" company: "takealot.com" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/takealot-com" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-e-commerce-beauty-buyer-cosmetics-9f35a7f0-4211-4a44-8f17-a311569fe2c5" apply_url: "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8210340" workplace: onsite location: "Cape Town" employment_type: unspecified seniority: mid role: other region: middle-east-africa date_posted: 2026-09-21T05:52:13.000Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-21T06:13:31.577Z --- # E-Commerce Beauty Buyer - Cosmetics **takealot.com** · Cape Town Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/takealotcom/jobs/8210340 ## About the role [takealot.com](https://www.takealot.com/), South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented **E-Commerce Beauty Buyer** to join our Retail team in Cape Town. We are looking for a commercially driven **E-Commerce Beauty Buyer** to accelerate the growth of our Cosmetics category. This is not a traditional buying role. The Buyer will own the end-to-end commercial performance of the category, combining **buying, digital trading, assortment strategy, supplier negotiation, pricing, inventory management and customer insight** to deliver sustainable GMV and profitability growth. The successful candidate will understand both **Beauty and E-commerce**: what customers are searching for, what converts, what trends are emerging and how to translate those insights into a high-performing online assortment. **Your responsibilities will include:** **Category Ownership & Growth:** - Own category performance across GMV, sales growth, gross profit, margin and market share. - Develop and execute the annual category growth strategy. - Identify customer, brand, price-point and assortment white spaces. - Drive customer acquisition, penetration, frequency and basket growth. - Build clear beauty and emerging-brand strategies. **Digital Trading:** - Trade the category daily using real-time performance data. - Monitor traffic, conversion, search demand, availability, pricing, promotional performance and SKU productivity. - Identify underperforming areas and implement corrective actions quickly. - Capitalise on trending products and emerging demand before competitors. - Optimise promotional mechanics, bundles, gifting and digital exclusives. **Assortment & Range Productivity:** - Build a customer-led, digitally relevant assortment. - Use data to determine which brands, products and price points should be expanded, maintained or exited. - Drive productivity at SKU level. - Reduce duplication, long-tail inefficiency and aged inventory. - Maintain strong availability on high-demand and hero SKUs. **Brand Acquisition & Innovation:** - Identify and secure high-growth local, international, social-first and emerging beauty brands. - Build a pipeline of new brands and product launches. - Monitor global beauty trends, social media, search behaviour and competitor activity. - Develop online exclusives and first-to-market opportunities. - Ensure launches are executed with speed and commercial impact. **Pricing & Competitiveness:** - Maintain strong price competitiveness across key products and brands. - Monitor competitor pricing and promotional activity. - Balance customer value with margin requirements. - Develop price architecture across opening, core, premium and prestige price points. **Supplier & Commercial Management:** - Lead negotiations across cost, margin, rebates, marketing investment, exclusivity, payment terms and promotional funding. - Build strategic relationships with brand owners and distributors. - Develop joint business plans with key suppliers. - Hold suppliers accountable for availability, launch execution and commercial commitments. **Inventory & Availability:** - Partner closely with planning to ensure the right stock is available at the right time. - Manage stock cover, sell-through, ageing and inventory productivity. - Protect availability on top-selling SKUs. - Balance growth ambition with working-capital efficiency. **On-Site Customer Experience:** - Work cross-functionally to improve category navigation, search and discoverability. - Ensure product content, imagery, descriptions and attributes support conversion. - Use customer reviews, search behaviour and shopping data to identify opportunities. - Partner with marketing and site teams to create commercially powerful beauty campaigns and launches. **Qualification & Experience:** - 4–7+ years’ experience in e-commerce buying, category management, digital trading or commercial retail. - Beauty/Cosmetics experience strongly preferred. - Demonstrated ownership of meaningful GMV, sales and profitability targets. - Strong understanding of e-commerce metrics including conversion, traffic, AOV, availability and promotional performance. - Excellent commercial negotiation capability. - Strong analytical and Excel/data skills. - Proven ability to use data to make fast commercial decisions. - Experience managing large SKU assortments is advantageous. - Strong understanding of digital consumer behaviour and online retail trends. **Key Success Measures:** - GMV and sales growth. - Gross profit and margin. - Market-share growth. - Conversion rate. - Customer penetration. - Average order value. - In-stock availability. - Stock turn. - SKU productivity. - Aged-stock reduction. - New-brand contribution. - Promotional ROI. - Supplier funding. - Speed to market. **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*.** --- Source: takealot.com's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/takealot-com-e-commerce-beauty-buyer-cosmetics-9f35a7f0-4211-4a44-8f17-a311569fe2c5