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This role requires navigating complex regulatory landscapes to ensure our merchant division operates with total security and excellence. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with the integrity to maintain this critical balance!\nThink you've been challenged before? Think again!\nScale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.\nLearn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.\nGrow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group:takealot.com , TFS and Mr D. 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