Product Coordinator: Infants SBU at Ackermans

Qualifications    
Essential:

• A Grade 12 certificate is an essential requirement

Preferred:

• A tertiary qualification in Retail, Administration, Marketing, or Buying would be beneficial

Knowledge, Skills and Experience    
SKILLS required:

• Proficiency in the latest Microsoft applications(Outlook, Word, PowerPoint & Excel)
• Excellent planning, organising & time management skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and relationship-building skills
• High energy level, is performance-driven and deadline-orientated
• Enthusiastic self-starter
• Strong sense of integrity
• Service-orientation
• Strong detail-orientation
• Emotional maturity
• Sense of urgency
• Reliable

The ability to:

• be highly assertive
• be resilient and maintain high levels of drive and initiative under pressure
• positively influence others
• be resourceful
• work independently, as well as be a team player
• be proactive
• be flexible, function under pressure and adapt to change
• to keep one’s self motivated and to maintain a positive attitude and work performance in a variety of circumstances

EXPERIENCE required:

• Previous experience (at least 2 years) in an administrative and/or coordinating role within a retail/ buying/ marketing environment.

Key Responsibilities    

• To ensure all marketing activities and initiatives, planned and ad-hoc, are aligned with the signed-off seasonal strategy

To coordinate & deliver agreed/signed off input for the following processes:

• Merchandise lists and product samples to the VM and/or Marketing teams
• For the Monthly Promotions Manual to the VM and/or Marketing teams as requested by the Buying Manager
• For Editorial requests to Marketing teams
• For Digital requests to the digital team
• To support the departments in the tracking and monitoring of the inflow of promotions
• To link promotions on the relevant systems
• To prepare monthly marketing tracking sheets
• To collate, coordinate & obtain sign off for the seasonal look
• VM (Store communication)
• Marketing (Queries)

Closing Date    
2023/05/08