Current Vacancies at Yuppiechef

What does the job entail?

• Architecting and designing infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly-available infrastructure solutions. This includes: AWS; virtualization; containers (Docker): and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• CI/CD Pipeline management: Lead the development, maintenance, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and automated software deployments. This includes: integration testing; monitoring; and security practices into the pipeline\
• Automation and configuration management: Create and manage automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, configuration, and provisioning processes — leveraging tools like Terraform and Ansible to define and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling version control and reproducibility
• Monitoring and performance optimisation: Implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, system failures, and security vulnerabilities. And analyse metrics to optimise infrastructure and application performance.\
• Security and compliance: Ensure the security and compliance of the infrastructure, applications, and data by implementing best practices for security hardening, access controls, and regular audits
• Troubleshooting and incident response: Quickly diagnose and resolve issues related to deployments, infrastructure, and performance. And contribute to incident response and disaster recovery plans
• Collaboration with the Development Team: Work closely with the Development Team to understand application requirements, optimise development workflows, and provide guidance on best practices for deploying and maintaining application

What are the requirements?

• You’ll need to have had 8+ years’ experience as a DevOps engineer
• With at least 2 years leading and managing others
• A world-class CV that demonstrates the level of skill and experience required for this role

You’ll need to show these specific skills:

• Working as a Linux system administrator
• Setting up and tuning services such as apache and nginx for high throughput
• Working with Containers and Kubernetes
• Package Updates / Keeping systems up to date
• Monitoring system performance
• Knowledge in Bash Scripting
• AWS CodeDeploy/CodeBuildr or similar CI/CD pipelines
• Understand and develop configuration management tooling, such as Ansible and Terraform for IaC
• Knowledge of working with IaaS solutions (AWS preferred) and be able to translate on-premise knowledge to cloud based solutions
• An LPIC / RHCSA / or similar Linux qualification would be beneficial
• A tertiary qualification in Computer Sciences or similar would be beneficial

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Yuppiechef is looking for a highly organised and engaging co-ordinator in our Marketing team, to oversee our in-store communication and production. You’ll need to be able to write clear briefs, balance timelines for many campaigns in parallel, and build relationships quickly. You’ll be responsible for collaborating with our designers on new store marketing elements, planning production timelines with our print partners, and working with our store teams to make sure that campaigns are implemented as intended. 

The role will report into the Marketing Manager, and is based from our offices in Westlake, Cape Town.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Writing briefs and co-ordinating the production, delivery and installation of print elements for store-only campaigns 
• Being the key contact with our print partners for all production campaigns, and keeping all campaign stakeholders aware of timeline changes
• Reviewing new printers, plus proposing samples and quotes for new print substrates, and negotiating for better rates
• Co-ordinating mock-up window installations for internal review
• Working closely with our Visual Merchandising and store teams to ensure that all store campaigns are implemented to brief, and collating feedback on how campaigns worked in reality 
• Tracking, controlling and reporting on spend against the production budgets
• Keeping in touch with the marketing teams from our landlord malls about local media opportunities
• Getting new designs of our famous magnets and cards printed and out into the world, and keeping track of their stock levels and distribution

Attributes we’re looking for:

• Clear, friendly and professional communication skills
• Efficient in providing regular proactive updates 
• Technologically confident in finding new more efficient ways of doing things - Airtable skills will be a plus!
• Strong feel for brand communication
• Positivity, helpfulness, and a willingness to learn
• Very high level of attention to detail

Qualifications and experience

• A qualification in marketing, branding or communications would be beneficial
• 2 years’ experience in a marketing, branding or communications role, working with print production

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Yuppiechef is looking for a strategic and commercially astute marketing manager, to oversee income-generating campaigns for our broad and expanding product range. You’ll drive growth in key categories, and will work with your team to ensure the most impactful use of our owned channels, trading off competing business priorities against each other.

The role reports into the Head of Marketing, has two direct reports, is based from our offices in Westlake, Cape Town.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Working with your team and our internal creative team to conceive and implement omnichannel promotions that grow categories, launch new product offerings, build product brands and help meet our business objectives
• Strategically guiding the growth and profitability of supplier-paid marketing campaigns by building and selling win-win campaigns
• Owning and continuously optimising the productivity and efficiency of our newsletter and on-site communication, considering content, templates, systems, process and impact
• Working closely with the Buying and Planning teams on prioritising the marketing support given to new listings, exclusive brands and different category strategies
• Co-ordinating regular analysis of campaign performance, and sharing learnings and insights within Marketing and across teams for future improvements

Attributes we’re looking for:

• Keen numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to quickly find insights from data to guide confident, consistent and calm decision-making
• Quick to build trusting, professional relationships across teams and suppliers, and collaborate smoothly and productively
• Strong communication, briefing and presentation abilities
• Technologically confident in finding new more efficient ways of doing things - Airtable and AWS QuickSight skills are a plus
• Familiarity with digital marketing performance metrics
• Positivity, flexibility, helpfulness, and a continuous openness to learning, mentoring and improvement

Qualifications and experience

• 10+ years’ experience in retail marketing, ideally both online and bricks & mortar, including working on known consumer brands
• 3+ years’ experience of managing direct reports
• A qualification in marketing, branding or communications would be beneficial

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We are growing and looking for a goal-driven and self-motivated Planning Assistant to join our Planning team. We want you because you have a strong eye for quality product, backed with a solid flair for numbers and analysing. Your understanding of what drives the bottom line and what actions to take to truly make an impact makes you the game-changer we’re looking for.

Who you are

Can you see patterns in license plate numbers? Do you know when the weatherman has got it all wrong? And is your sock drawer ordered by colour, material and style? You may just have something in common with our Planning team. We would say our planners at Yuppiechef are part soothsayers, part numbers experts and part crisis managers. We are looking for a new team member who wants to continue to build their fledgling career in this space.

 What your role looks like  

This role is responsible for making sure that we have our products ready to sell, in the right quantities and without taking up too much space and time in our warehouse, our Planning team must have the ability to predict an unpredictable future. 

You will be:

• Ensuring that the process of receiving stock from suppliers is seamless and any issues promptly resolved.
• Liaising closely with various internal teams
• General operational problem-solving
• Ensuring that all administration for the planning process is maintained to Yuppiechef standards

 Does this describe you?

• Strong numerical skills 
• Basic understanding of finance and invoices or billing processes
• Strong computer skills with familiarity working with data and data structures. High familiarity with the functions of Excel and the google suite.
• Comfortable in communicating via phone, email and in person with good written and verbal English skills
• Enjoy working with people to resolve problems with a focus on finding workable solutions within sometimes tight deadlines
• Driven by improving processes and increasing efficiency 
• Experience in working with and managing stock 
• 3 Years of tertiary education OR work experience, solving problems and working with numbers.

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Yuppiechef is looking for a goal-driven and self-motivated Merchandise Planner to join our Planning team. We want you because you have a strong eye for quality product, backed with a solid flair for numbers and analysing. Your understanding of what drives the bottom line and what actions to take to truly make an impact makes you the game-changer we’re looking for.

Our team started as two good friends and only 32 products in a lounge in Cape Town, and now we stock a range of over 10 000 curated products from over 500 leading brands and our omni-channel business is growing faster than ever!

We help people find more moments of joy in their homes, through products that make daily life more delicious, more comfortable, more innovative and more beautiful. We offer a world-class service to our customers both in our stores and online - wherever it suits them best.

Who you are

You have the ability to grow and adapt to an ever-changing environment where new processes and technologies are part of the norm. Your passion for retail, knowledge of Appliances, affiliation for figures, organisational skills and efficiency makes you indispensable to the team. It excites you to continually look for ways to work better, faster and more efficiently that benefit the business and maximise each hour of the day.

What you’ll do

You will be responsible for getting the right stock at the right store at the right time for both retail and e-commerce store locations. This will involve collaborating across multiple business units to showcase and manage stock levels of our extensive product range.

Your areas of responsibility 

• Calculate stock needed for successful marketing campaigns (online and in stores)
• Optimizing flow of stock and inventory turn in your category 
• Work closely with category buyers on season strategy incorporating reviews of past category/concept performance, agree on investment for the future
• Forecasting and ordering stock needed for expected sales and managing overstocks, should sales not happen as planned
• Build and maintain collaborative partnerships and communicate effectively with suppliers  and internal team members
• Compiling and analysing reports on product performance.  Recommending actions based on data reported. 
• Ensure SLA’s are confirmed with internal and key suppliers

What experience and skills you need for the role

This role is best suited for an innovative, organised, proactive problem-solver with the following skills;

• 3-5 years working in an Inventory or Merchandise Planning role
• A high degree of numeracy and an analytical, detailed and strategic approach to work
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking
• Strong affiliation to systems and utilising them to increase productivity in line with the  Planning Strategy
• Good organisational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Enjoy working with people to resolve problems with a focus on finding workable solutions within often tight deadlines
• Driven by improving processes and finding new effective ways to do things
• Experience in a complex, data-driven, high-volume and fast-paced environment where agility is key
• General operational problem-solving experience 

 Environment

• Fully equipped, communal kitchen where you can use the tools we sell

• A fully-stocked coffee station where you can hone your barista skills

• Monthly company-wide meetings where we celebrate the month gone by and chat about the future

• Parking available