Current Openings at Pepkor Lifestyle

Are you a proactive professional with the following qualifications and experience?

Qualifications:

• NQF Level 6 Qualification (Diploma or Degree in Business Administration, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, or a related field).
• Broad-based understanding of retail policies, practices, systems, and operating models.

Professional Expertise:

• Operational Execution: Coordinate day-to-day operational activities, resource allocation, and inventory management.
• Process Optimization: Design, refine, and implement streamlined operational processes to eliminate inefficiencies.
• Compliance & Quality Management: Conduct regular audits and inspections to ensure 100% adherence to quality standards and operational compliance.
• Performance Reporting: Prepare actionable performance reports, metrics, and presentations for senior management.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate cross-departmental collaboration to align operational activities with business goals.

We are seeking a candidate who possesses the following qualities:

• Strong Organizational & Time Management Skills: Multi-task and prioritize effectively under pressure.
• Communication & Technical Proficiency: Highly skilled in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and operational tracking software.
• Customer-Centric Focus: Act as a champion for customer satisfaction, managing expectations and adhering to service codes.
• Resilience & Attention to Detail: Handle stress effectively, maintain high standards, and respond constructively to feedback.
• Ethical & Values-Driven: Adhere strictly to principles, follow instructions and procedures, and maintain professional presentation.

What will you be doing?

• Coordinate Daily Operations: Oversee cross-departmental logistics, scheduling, and resource allocation for smooth business flow.
• Optimize Operational Processes: Eliminate operational bottlenecks and improve team performance through refined workflows.
• Ensure Strict Compliance: Execute regular compliance checks and implement corrective measures to achieve zero non-compliance.
• Champion Customer Centricity: Apply customer service standards across your area of responsibility and celebrate customer-centric behaviors.
• Drive Reporting & Insights: Monitor key metrics (KPIs) and deliver clear reporting on operational performance to leadership.

Closing Date 13 October 2026

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Job Purpose

• The incumbent will be responsible to interpret data and turn it into information which can offer ways to improve a business, thus affecting business decisions. Required to gather information from various sources and interpret patterns and trends and deliver to end user accurately, timeously and in an understandable format.

Key Dials:

• Execute on the data visualisation and reporting strategy, policy and processes
• Develop and design reports in a timely manner and aligned to the stakeholder requirements
• Transfer of knowledge and understanding of designed reports to the end user
• Deal with customers in a customer centric manner
• Effective self-management and teamwork

Minimum qualification and Experience:

• 3 year related degree (In a quantitative field i.e.: Data, Finance, Economics etc.)
• Post graduate qualification (advantageous)
• 1-4 years’ experience in Data analytics.
• A high level of mathematical ability and experience in SAS, AWS, CLOUD, SQL and Python.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office/Google Workspace. AWS experience advantage.
• Ability to analyse, model and interpret data
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Report writing
• Knowledge of complex IT environments (technical, security, business)
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Financial Modelling
• Strong Investigation skills
• Project management
• Risk management
• Facilitation skills
• Learning and Researching
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Deciding and initiating Action
• Knowledge and experience of Retail SAP architecture, implementation and operations

Closing Date 20 October 2026

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Job Description

Introduction

• Pepkor Lifestyle is looking for an Archive Administrator who will be responsible for the day-to-day administration, monitoring,support, and maintenance of enterprise archiving and document management solutions.
• The role ensures that business and SAP-related documents and data are securely archived, retained, retrieved, and managed in accordance with business, audit, legal, and regulatory requirements.
• The Archive Administrator will monitor archive processes and interfaces, investigate and resolve incidents, maintain archive configurations, support retention requirements, and ensure the availability and integrity of archived information.
• The role requires a good understanding of SAP environments, document archiving, data retention, and system integrations.
• The administrator will work closely with SAP functional teams, Basis, Infrastructure, Security, business stakeholders, and external vendors to ensure stable and effective archive services.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise archive and document management solutions.
• Manage the archiving, storage, retrieval, retention, and disposal of electronic documents and data.
• Monitor scheduled archive jobs, interfaces, queues, repositories, and storage capacity.
• Investigate and resolve failed archive jobs, document retrieval issues, interface failures, andarchive-related incidents.
• Support SAP document and data archiving processes.
• Maintain archive repositories, document types, retention rules, and related system configurations.
• Ensure archived documents and data remain accessible and retrievable throughout therequired retention period
• Support integrations between SAP, archive platforms, scanning solutions, and otherenterprise applications.
• Assist with the implementation and maintenance of document and data retention requirements.
• Support audit, compliance, legal, and business requests for archived documents andhistorical information.
• Perform regular archive health checks and identify capacity, performance, availability, or integrity issues.
• Assist with archive platform upgrades, migrations, patches, and maintenance activities.
• Investigate recurring archive issues and contribute to root cause analysis and permanent resolutions.
• Maintain operational procedures, configuration documentation, support guides, and technical documentation.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity testing for archive solutions.
• Provide operational support aligned to agreed incident management processes and SLAs.
• Participate in change management, testing, deployment, and release activities.
• Engage with archive solution vendors for technical support and issue resolution.
• Identify opportunities to improve archive processes, monitoring, automation, and operational efficiency.

Experience

• 3–5 years experience in enterprise archiving, document management, records management,or related system administration.
• Experience supporting enterprise archive or content management platforms.
• Experience working with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Understanding of SAP data archiving concepts.
• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting archive jobs, interfaces, and repositories.
• Experience with document storage, retrieval, retention, and deletion processes.
• Experience supporting integrations between SAP and archive/document management platforms.
• Experience troubleshooting application and integration issues.
• Experience working with technical teams including SAP Basis, Infrastructure, Security, andapplication support.
• Experience working within incident, problem, change, and release management processes.
• Experience maintaining technical and operational documentation.

Competencies

• Good archive and document management administration skills.
• Good understanding of SAP environments and business processes.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Understanding of document and data lifecycle management.
• Strong attention to detail and focus on data integrity.
• Understanding of information security and access control principles.
• Understanding of data retention, audit, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to investigate and resolve system and integration issues.
• Good documentation and procedural writing skills.
• Good stakeholder and vendor management skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong customer and service delivery focus.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Ability to work collaboratively across business and technical teams.
• Continuous improvement and problem-solving mindset.

Qualifications

• 3-year IT, Information Systems, Information Management, or related degree/diploma (advantageous).
• SAP ArchiveLink, SAP ILM, SAP Data Archiving, or related SAP training/certification (advantageous).
• Enterprise Content Management or Records Management training/certification (advantageous).
• Relevant archive platform certification, such as OpenText (advantageous).
• ITIL V3 or ITIL 4 Certification (advantageous).

Closing Date 16 October 2026

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Job Purpose 

• The ideal candidate will use their passion for big data and analytics to provide insights to the business covering a range of topics. They will be responsible for conducting both recurring and ad hoc analysis for business users.
• As a Data Engineer at Pepkor Lifestyle, you will play a critical role in the development and maintenance of our data infrastructure. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure data availability, quality, and accessibility for analysis.
• The ideal candidate will use their passion for big data and analytics to provide insights to the business covering a range of topics. They will be responsible for conducting both recurring and ad hoc analysis for business users.

Position outputs/competencies 

• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements. 
• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes. 
• Implement and maintain data warehousing and data storage solutions.
• Optimize data pipelines for performance, scalability, and reliability. 
• Ensure data quality and integrity through data validation and cleansing processes.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data infrastructure issues. 
• Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in data engineering.
• Systematic solution design of the ETL and data pipeline inline with business user specifications
• Develop and implement ETL pipelines aligned to the approved solution design
• Ensure data governance and data quality assurance standards are upheld
• Deal with customers in a customer centric manner
• Effective Self-Management and Team work

Minimum qualification and Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Data Engineer in a professional setting. 
• Proficiency in data engineering technologies and programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python, Scala, Java). 
• Strong knowledge of data storage, database design, and data modelling concepts
• Experience with ETL tools, data integration, and data pipeline orchestration.
• Familiarity with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift). 
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• 5-10 years’ Experience and understanding in designing and developing data warehouses according to the Kimball methodology.
• Adept at design and development of ETL processes.
• SQL development experience, preferably SAS data studio and AWS experience The ability to ingest/output CSV, JSON and other flat file types and any related data sources.
• Proficient in Python or R or willingness to learn. Experience within Retail, Financial Services and Logistics environments.
• Redshift Technologies
• Understanding of data security and compliance best practices. 
• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Analytics, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer).

Closing Date 23 October 2026

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Description:

• As a Buyer (Small,Large and Seasonal Appliances) you will contribute to the continued growth of the Division as Merchandise Buyer for Pepkor Lifestyle within the Group Merchandise department.
• Your primary accountability is to build balanced range assortments throughout the category for the various brands in the Division.

Key Requirements:

• Use internal and external trend sources to confidently compile and present quarterly product statistics, range reviews and post seasonal to retail heads, supported by sales, customer and trend data.
• Manage the product process from design, briefing and development to go live on site.
• Develop exit strategies for discontinued products/ ranges, whilst preserving overall margin. 
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships to negotiate best price, great value offers and exclusive stock in line with company strategy.
• Using source of supply to develop products based on global trends in line with department strategy to produce world class, balanced, locally relevant furniture & accessories.
• Ensure critical path timelines are adhered to. Be proactive in flagging potential stock and delivery shortfalls.
• Compile weekly trade feedback reports through consistent analysis and interpretation of data that show how you will trade your range in-season to drive sell-through and reduce markdown.
• Work alongside Suppliers to ensure product quality is in line with the Divisions standards.
• Support the Marketing & Operations teams in delivering a world-class customer experience in product delivery & service.
• Manage and mentor Planners within your team, creating a cohesive, results driven environment to support optimal performance and personal development.
• Be proactive and innovative in all areas of your role to ensure maximum efficiency is achieved.
• Matric (grade 12).
• Relevant Diploma or Degree in Fashion, Marketing, Design, BsC or BComm.
• 5- 8 years’ experience in retail and more specifically within furniture or related industry.
• Demonstrated buying record of accomplishment.
• Competency in MS Office packages specifically in Excel.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of retail maths.
• Proven ability in analytical & logical interpretation of data.

The Role requires the incumbent to be:

• Analytic
• Decisive
• Continuously learning & improving
• Think big
• Proactive
• Obsess about the customer and the customer experience
• Accountable
• Able to collaborate with various role players internally and externally
• Trustworthy, approachable and open minded
• Able to simplify processes and solve complexity
• First to market by obsessively monitoring global and local markets trends
• Action orientated
• Self-managed
• Able to monitor stock, sales, margin and assortment to ensure delivery of KPI’s.

 Closing Date 12 October 2026

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Introduction

• Boardmans is home to curated interior elegance. Our showrooms are designed to capture the imagination of design-savvy shoppers. We believe the customer journey on our floor should be inspiring, consultative, and completely frictionless. If you have a passion for beautiful home interiors and a competitive drive to smash sales goals, we want you on our team.

Position Purpose

• As a Salesperson, you are our frontline brand champion. Grounded in our commercial philosophy, your job is to turn foot traffic into sales conversion by greeting floor guests dynamically, leveraging superior product knowledge to solve customer needs, maximizing transaction values via add-on sales, and maintaining high housekeeping and merchandising standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactive Customer Engagement: Greet and connect with customers on the floor within 30 seconds, using consultative probing questions to pinpoint their styling needs.
• Target & Commission Driving: Hit individual daily and monthly sales, margin, warranty, and store finance target metrics by closing floor transactions successfully.
• Product Knowledge Application: Actively complete regular e-learning models to convert product design specifications into attractive lifestyle customer benefits.
• Floor Merchandising Excellence: Maintain allocated department layouts, ensuring all stock is correctly barcoded, labeled, clean, and neatly packed per the company manual.
• Asset Protection: Secure store stock by practicing vigilant floor coverage, executing accurate counts, and calling out risk behaviors to protect margins.

Requirements & Competencies

• Education: Matric (Grade 12 / NQF Level 4).
• Experience: 1–2 years of experience in high-energy retail sales (experience in home textiles, décor, or furniture is a significant plus).
• Core Skills: Selling and closing skills, clear verbal communication, numeracy, and active technology navigation (tablets/sales pipelines).
• Competencies: Persuading and influencing, delivering results, and meeting high customer service expectations.

 Closing Date 12 October 2026

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Job Description

• Introduction: We are looking for a hard-working and energetic Customer Service Advisors to join our fast-paced retail environment, where every day is unique and interesting. The ideal candidate must possess excellent customer service skills, a high level of accuracy and act with honesty and integrity.
• Description: The professional interaction of all customers to ensure the accurate processing of all transactions and administration to meet set targets in both segments of tech and furniture retail.

Job Specification:

• Deal with customers in a customer centric manner
• Achieve individual targets
• Administration
• Processing transactions and cash ups
• Effective self-management and teamwork
• Security and safety
• Reception / Switchboard
• Ensure up to date product knowledge
• Receiving and dispatching of stock
• Merchandising, housekeeping and store presentation

Minimum requirements:

• Matric
• Numeracy skills
• Ability to work with money
• Computer literacy
• Attention to detail
• Interpersonal skills
• Written and communication skills
• Team work
• Telephone etiquette
• Target driven
• Customer centricity
• Practical experience in a financial and administration role
• SAP experience advantageous
• MS Office (Word, Excel)
• Cellular and Retail experience
• Knowledge of relevant Company policies, practices, processes and systems
• Conscientious
• Integrity
• Customer centric
• Fraud detection
• Target driven