Manager Fruit & Veg at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

• To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage. Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to.
• Grade 12 
• 2 - 4 years Produce experience
• 1 - 2 years running a department and responsible for sales staff
• Management experience - coaching, training, dealing with noncompliance and performance issues 

Merchandising Management 

• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise 
• Executes plano guide 100% 
• Handles product as per SOP  
• Ensures products are produced according to recipe specifications 
• Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time 
• Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales opportunities 
• Ensures product is wrapped and packed according to standards 
• Ensures sufficient product available for customer demand 
• Ensures compliance to hygiene, housekeeping and safe working standards 
• Monitors the implementation of all promotional activities – adherence to promotional calendar 
• Back up areas are kept clean and clear 
• 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 
• Recording of Food Safety Daily Checklist  

Customer Services Management 

• Responds to customer requests 
• Answers queries on out of stock - assists with replacement products, 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 non compliance 
• Attends monthly regional meetings - take information back to staff - responds to queries on turnover/waste  
• Checks and amends Kronos scheduling 
• Coaches staff 

​​​​​​​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  
• Ensure PID’s are counted correctly as per the National P & L schedule  

Closing date - 04 January 2025