Digital Merchandising & SEO Specialist

takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented SEO & Merchandising Specialist to join our Marketing team in Cape Town.

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 Senior SEO Specialist

Your responsibilities will include:

• Core Web Vitals & Page Experience: Act as the Performance Guardian for merchandising content. Audit and optimise heavy page assets (banners, images, scripts) to ensure they do not negatively impact LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) or CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift).
• Brief technical improvements to developers to ensure green scores across all page types.
• Category & Product Page Optimisation: Execute high-volume optimization of Category Landing Pages (PLPs) and Product Pages (PDPs). Ensure that H1s, metadata, and description cop...