Product Coordinator - Kuils River at Ackermans

Job Advert    

• We are looking for a highly energetic, efficient and organised individual to provide product promotional assistance to the Buying Manager of the SBU, by internally coordinating inputs required for Marketing within the agreed formats and cycle times.

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    
2023/06/26