Manager Deli at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Role Summary

• To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage.
• Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to.

Minimum Requirements

• Matric/ Grade 12
• Sound Numeracy skills and knowledge of retail industry
• Deli Experience and Knowledge OR 1-2 years Run a department responsible for sales staff
• Management experience - coaching, training, dealing with noncompliance and performance issues

Competencies

• Achieving results through others
• Plan, organize and follow up on activities and plans
• Adhere to standards and policies
• Customer Orientation
• Communication skills – clearly conveying message and actively listening
• Business mindedness

Key Responsibilities

Merchandising Management:

• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise
• Executes plano guide 100%
• Handles product as per SOP
• Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time
• Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales opportunities
• Ensures produce is wrapped and packed according to standards
• Ensures sufficient product available for customer demand
• Ensures compliance to hygiene, housekeeping and safe working standard
• Monitors the implementation of all promotional activities – adherence to promotional calendar
• Back up areas are kept clean and clear
• Understand customer needs and communicate these to demand planning
• Follows sell by dates, rotates stock as per policy/SOP on sales floor and back up area
• Throughout day ensures department merchandising and cleanliness standards are maintained, keeping waste to a minimum

Food Safety & Hygiene:

• Ensures that hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintained
• Ensures stock rotation
• Monitors the adherence to food safety and health and safety standards are maintained
• Manages non-conformances via effective corrective action
• Implements cleaning schedules and checks effective cleaning and sanitation

Customer Services Management:

• Responds to customer requests
• Answers queries on out of stock - assists with replacement produce, explains time to next delivery and issues which may be affecting stock availability
• Ensures department standards are maintained, equipment is manned and in working order

Staff Management:

• Communicates critical information to staff
• Set targets and activities – priorities, delegates and communicates
• Handles procedural, policy and legislative noncompliance
• Attends monthly regional meetings - take information back to staff - responds to queries on turnover/waste
• Checks and amends Kronos scheduling

Administration:

• Ensures that all equipment is properly maintained in effective working order
• Ensures that general maintenance standards are met
• Monitors waste, and ensures procedures are adhered to
• Monitors turnover and identifies opportunities for increasing turnover and identifies and issues or barriers to achieving budgets.
• Ensures all SEL in place - print out and ensure all products have SEL current and legible by customer

Systems:

• Gap scanning out of stocks
• Identifies, counts, and records out of stocks & over stocks
• Draws excel report from SAP, communicate addresses stock concerns by completing excel sheet and sending to Demand Planning
• Processes IDTs via SAP
• Actions reduced to clear on SAP as per SOP
• Checks for electronic communications regularly during the working day
• Processes waste

Closing date: 27 July 2025