Current Openings at Mr Price Group

Job Description

• Mr Price - Table Bay Mall, Cape Town:- Lead and manage the daily operations of your store to ensure that the overall objectives which include store targets, innovation initiatives, and customer service standards are met and exceeded.    

Responsibilities

Stock Management: 

• Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.
• Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes to mitigate risks (stock loss) and ensure adequate stock on hand.
• Oversee the overall maintenance of the stockroom to meet housekeeping standards.
• Authorize write offs, breakages, recalls and returns.     

Sales Growth & Profitability:

• Analyse sales & profitability reports in store to collaborate with management on required operational action plans, increase sales performance and monitor store expenditure.
• Review and keep abreast of in-store product performance to provide feedback to support centre and enhance sales.
• Identify and propose new opportunities to increase sales and brand awareness.                      

Risk Management: 

• Conduct compliance checks through defined processes to ensure and enforce overall compliance to policies and procedures.                               

Customer Experience Management: 

• Ensure and maintain the implementation of customer experience processes (through the execution of business instruction letters, markdowns, repricing, promotions, customer experience plans, visual standards, customer feedback, general housekeeping etc.) to meet customer service standards.                              

Leadership & Development:

• Lead and drive the team within a store to achieve store KPIs and operational strategy in line with company values.
• Identify & drive training, coaching and development needs with a focus on talent management and succession planning.
• Recruit, administer & manage performance in accordance with company policies and procedures.

Innovation: 

• Implement Innovation initiatives from Head Office to delight our customers and improve in-store processes.                                                                  

Qualifications

• Grade 12.
• 3 to 5 years' experience in a retail store management capacity.   
• Knowledge on sales & service management.
• Budgeting knowledge.
• Proficiency in MS Office.
• Effective Communication skills.
• Business understanding of retail trade, brand, customer & product.
   

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Job Description

• We have a requirement for a new Business Analyst (Automation) within our technology team.
• Be part of dynamic and challenging projects that form part of exciting business transformation for our Group!

Responsibilities

• Initiate analysis workshops that utilise best practice techniques to encourage contributors to 'think out of the box' and define systems and processes that will enable the business to progress in line with the strategy, demonstrating consistently high-quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills.
• Strong ability to elicit and articulate business benefits and benefits realisation
• Analyse alternative solutions and make recommendations
• Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods and tools
• Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes.
• Produce detailed Process Design and Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business staff, including senior stakeholders, at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change.
• Support all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release.
• Assist with implementation of improved or automated bussiness process to ensure smooth change management.

Qualifications

• Relevant IT or Business Degree/ Diploma
• 3 years’ experience as Business Analyst or relevant business experience in an process improvement, Analytical environment.
• Demonstrated experience of assessing the costs and benefits of potential changes to business processes
• Knowledge of the Retail sector and broad understanding of traditional and new technologies used in a retail and online environment is required.
• The type of person who will ask the right questions and probe where needed.
• Self-managed
• Able to generate enthusiasm amongst team members whilst innovating change
• Ability to understand, define and document business requirements in a clear manner that is relevant to current or proposed solutions
• Inquisitive and progressive mind set leading to the generation of new and different ideas
• Customer centric mindset with the ability to build solid interpersonal relationships with in the bussiness.
• Ability to deal with stressful situations logically and calmly and see them through to a solution.
   

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Job Description

• We’re looking for a strong, vibrant and self- disciplined Store Manager to lead and manage the daily operations of a store to ensure that the overall objectives, store targets and customer service standards are met and exceeded.

Responsibilities

• Stock Management:
• Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.
• Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes (stock counts, stock takes, stock loss action plans etc.) to mitigate risks (stock loss) and ensure adequate stock on hand.
• Oversee the overall maintenance of the stockroom to meet housekeeping standards.
• Authorize write offs, breakages, recalls and returns.
• Sales Growth & Profitability:
• Analyze sales & profitability reports in store to collaborate with management on required operational action plans, increase sales performance and monitor store expenditure.
• Review and keep abreast of in-store product performance to provide feedback to support centre and enhance sales.
• Identify and propose new opportunities to increase sales and brand awareness. This may include in-store marketing, competitor shopping, partnering/participating in local events and driving new accounts/memberships per targets (if applicable).
• Risk Management:
• Conduct compliance checks through defined processes (e.g. admin checks, store audits, visual audits, COMO (Continuous Monitoring) reports, POS reports, health & safety standards, weekly hanger counts, security etc.) to ensure and enforce overall compliance to policies and procedures.
• Customer Experience Management:
• Ensure and maintain the implementation of customer experience processes (through the execution of business instruction letters, markdowns, repricing, promotions, customer experience plans, visual standards, customer feedback, general housekeeping etc.) to meet customer service standards.
• Leadership & Development:
• Lead and drive the team within a store to achieve store KPIs and operational strategy in line with company values.
• Identify & drive training, coaching and development needs with a focus on talent management and succession planning.
• Recruit, administer & manage performance in accordance with company policies and procedures.                                

Qualifications

• Grade: 12 (NQF Level 4) or equivalent
• 3 Years’ experience in a store managerial position.
• Sales & service management.
• Computer literacy.
• Communication skills.
• Retail trade.
• Brand, customer & product understanding.

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Job Description

• We have a requirement for a new Senior Business Analyst within our Retail and Ecommerce technology team.
• Be part of dynamic and challenging projects that form part of exciting business transformation for our Group!

Responsibilities

• Initiate analysis workshops that utilise best practice techniques to encourage contributors to 'think out of the box' and define systems and processes that will enable the business to progress in line with strategy, demonstrating consistently high quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills.
• Strong ability to elicit and articulate business benefits and benefits realisation
• Analyse alternative solutions and make recommendations
• Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods and tools
• Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes
• Produce detailed Process Design and Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business staff, including senior stakeholders, at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change.
• Support all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release.

Qualifications

• Relevant IT or Business Degree/ Diploma
• 3 years’ experience as Business Analyst or relevant business experience in Retail, eCommerce, or an Omni channel environment.
• Demonstrated experience of assessing the costs and benefits of potential changes to business processes
• Knowledge of the Retail and Ecommerce sector and broad understanding of traditional and new technologies used in a retail and online environment is required.
• The type of person who will ask the right questions and probe where needed.
• Self-managed
• Able to generate enthusiasm amongst team members whilst innovating change
• Ability to understand, define and document business requirements in a clear manner that is relevant to current or proposed solutions
• Inquisitive and progressive mind set leading to the generation of new and different ideas 
• Ability to deal with stressful situations logically and calmly and see them through to a solution.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior business analysts.