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Job Details

📍 Location: Cape Town, Western Cape
🏢 Company: Takealot Group
🏬 Business Units: takealot.com, TFS, Mr D
📄 Contract Type: Fixed-Term Graduate Programme
⏳ Duration: 12 Months
🎓 Programme Type: LLB / Legal Graduate

Company Overview

The Takealot Group is South Africa’s largest and most innovative online retail, delivery, and logistics organisation, serving more than 2.5 million customers nationwide. Through its core brands—takealot.com, Takealot Fulfilment Services (TFS), and Mr D—the group operates in a highly regulated, fast-moving digital commerce environment.

Legal governance plays a vital role in supporting Takealot’s growth, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing commercial risk, and enabling sound business decision-making. The organisation offers graduates exposure to real-world legal challenges across multiple business units within a complex corporate structure.

Job Overview

The LLB Graduate role is designed for law graduates who are eager to apply their legal knowledge in a commercial, corporate, and regulatory environment. The programme provides structured exposure to legal operations across e-commerce, logistics, employment law, contracts, compliance, and risk management.

Graduates will work closely with internal stakeholders and legal professionals to support the business while developing both technical legal skills and commercial awareness.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide legal support to the organisation across multiple business units

• Draft, review, and assist with negotiating contracts, agreements, and legal documents

• Conduct legal research and monitor changes in legislation, regulations, and compliance requirements

• Support dispute resolution processes and legal risk assessments

• Assist with compliance monitoring and internal governance frameworks

• Provide legal input to management decision-making processes

• Prepare legal reports, summaries, and supporting documentation

• Ensure business operations comply with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law (LLB) or a related legal qualification

Legal & Professional Skills

• Strong legal research and interpretation skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication ability

• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills

• High attention to detail and accuracy in legal documentation

Personal Attributes

• Collaborative and team-oriented

• Hands-on and proactive approach to work

• Confident in voicing legal opinions and recommendations

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, commercial environment

CV Tips for LLB Graduates

• Highlight modules in commercial law, corporate law, labour law, or compliance

• Emphasise legal research, drafting, or moot court experience

• Include internships, vacation work, or legal clinics if applicable

• Demonstrate attention to detail and structured legal thinking

• Keep your CV professional, concise, and well-formatted

Graduate Programme Value

• Practical exposure to in-house legal operations within a major corporate group

• Development of commercial legal skills beyond academic theory

• Access to mentorship and professional guidance

• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams across business units

• Strong foundation for careers in corporate law, compliance, or risk management

Life at Takealot Group

The Environment

• Entrepreneurial, dynamic, and performance-driven culture

• Customer-centric teams focused on execution and results

• Open, collaborative workplace with direct feedback and innovation

• High accountability with strong support for learning and growth

Benefits & Growth

• Market-related Total Remuneration Package

• Open-plan workspaces that encourage collaboration

• Structured Mentorship Programme

• Free access to online learning platforms (Udacity, Coursera, MyAcademy)

• Regular team events and social activities

• Confidential counselling, legal, and financial support services

• Free on-site parking

Company Policy Statement

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Preference will be given to applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities in accordance with the Employment Equity Act.