Welcome to PEP! PEP is Africa’s largest single brand retailer operating around 1800 stores in Southern Africa. As well as clothing and footwear, PEP sells homeware, FMCG, cellular and airtime products and also offers a range of other services such as cash-backs, Capfin (for loans), funeral policies, cross-border money transfers, selected bill payments, Fla...
The main purpose of the job of a merchandise controller is to allocate the right stock in the right quantities at the right time to the right stores, according to plan and current store performance, in order to optimize the balance between service and stock levels
Key Responsibilities
Allocated Stock
Manage DC Stock
Resolved store orders and enquiries
Updated activity records
Create styles
Allocate d stock to new stores
Resolve customer stock queries
Ad hoc support tasks (e.g. collating information; QC follow-ups; etc.)
Action COSTI’s
Requirements
JOB INCUMBENT REQUIREMENTS
Grade 12 (Mathematics and Business Economics will be an advantage)
Computer literate (MS Office - Excel)
Commercial or retail experience, particularly allocations experience will be advantage
Merchandise Management System
Distribution Centre exposure
Competencies: Problem assessment; Detail orientation; Service orientation; Planning, organising and control; Stress tolerance and Building and maintaining relationships
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