With the humble beginnings of a single store in Johannesburg CBD opened by Anthony and David Spitz in 1968, Spitz has grown from strength-to-strength to become synonymous with the excellence of the exclusive international brands it offers in store.
Each of the Spitz stores dotted around the country have been designed to be an inviting place for customers ...
Your Role
- As a Store Manager, you will be responsible for delivering an exceptional customer journey while ensuring operational and sales excellence. You will lead a passionate team, uphold the highest standards, and guarantee that every aspect of the store reflects the luxury, sophistication, and prestige that define our brand.
Reporting to: Regional Manager
Team: Permanent & Flexi Staff within the store
Key Areas of Impact
Creating an Exceptional Customer Experience
- Cultivate a service-driven culture, ensuring customers receive a world-class experience
- Implement action plans based on mystery shopper feedback to continuously elevate service standards
- Build strong relationships with customers and maintain a loyal client base
- Provide in-store coaching and continuous training to refine sales and service skills
Inspiring and leading a high-performance team
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-calibre retail team that embodies our brand values
- Drive performance through structured Individual Performance Agreements (IPAs), one-on-one coaching, and meaningful feedback sessions
- Recognise and reward excellence while ensuring accountability with clear expectations
- Foster a positive and motivating work environment that encourages growth
Driving Sales and Operational Excellence
- Monitor daily sales performance and ensure every team member contributes to store targets
- Analyse the income statement and manage expenses to maximise profitability
- Maintain optimal stock levels in alignment with customer demand and store needs
- Ensure compliance with in-store controls, visual merchandising standards, and premium store presentation
- Use key retail disciplines to manage store operations efficiently
Achieving Business Targets
- Deliver on key metrics, including trading density, basket size, and salary-to-sales ratios
- Align team performance with brand goals, ensuring a seamless and luxurious shopping experience
What It Takes to Succeed:
Experience that set you up for success:
- Minimum of 5 years’ retail experience
- At least 12 – 18 months of management experience in a retail environment
- A deep understanding of the retail landscape, including brand positioning and customer engagement
Qualifications & Certifications that will contribute to your success:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- Tertiary Retail Qualification (advantageous)
Additional Requirements that will enhance your impact for success:
- Knowledge of Industrial Relations (IR) laws and ability to initiate enquiries
- Strong understanding of profit & loss statements and retail financials
- Experience in merchandising, stock control, and store administration
- Ability to recruit and build a team that represents a luxury retail brand
Closing Date 03 September 2026
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Your Role
- As a Store Manager, you will be responsible for delivering an exceptional customer journey while ensuring operational and sales excellence. You will lead a passionate team, uphold the highest standards, and guarantee that every aspect of the store reflects the luxury, sophistication, and prestige that define our brand.
Reporting to: Regional Manager
Team: Permanent & Flexi Staff within the store
Key Areas of Impact
Creating an Exceptional Customer Experience
- Cultivate a service-driven culture, ensuring customers receive a world-class experience
- Implement action plans based on mystery shopper feedback to continuously elevate service standards
- Build strong relationships with customers and maintain a loyal client base
- Provide in-store coaching and continuous training to refine sales and service skills
Inspiring and leading a high-performance team
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-calibre retail team that embodies our brand values
- Drive performance through structured Individual Performance Agreements (IPAs), one-on-one coaching, and meaningful feedback sessions
- Recognise and reward excellence while ensuring accountability with clear expectations
- Foster a positive and motivating work environment that encourages growth
Driving Sales and Operational Excellence
- Monitor daily sales performance and ensure every team member contributes to store targets
- Analyse the income statement and manage expenses to maximise profitability
- Maintain optimal stock levels in alignment with customer demand and store needs
- Ensure compliance with in-store controls, visual merchandising standards, and premium store presentation
- Use key retail disciplines to manage store operations efficiently
Achieving Business Targets
- Deliver on key metrics, including trading density, basket size, and salary-to-sales ratios
- Align team performance with brand goals, ensuring a seamless and luxurious shopping experience
What It Takes to Succeed:
Experience that set you up for success:
- Minimum of 5 years’ retail experience
- At least 12 – 18 months of management experience in a retail environment
- A deep understanding of the retail landscape, including brand positioning and customer engagement
Qualifications & Certifications that will contribute to your success:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- Tertiary Retail Qualification (advantageous)
Additional Requirements that will enhance your impact for success:
- Knowledge of Industrial Relations (IR) laws and ability to initiate enquiries
- Strong understanding of profit & loss statements and retail financials
- Experience in merchandising, stock control, and store administration
- Ability to recruit and build a team that represents a luxury retail brand
Closing Date 03 September 2026
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Job Description
- A rewarding opportunity awaits a skilled Commercial Planning & Analytics Executive at Spitz in Bryanston, Johannesburg. This role is designed for a commercially astute, analytically strong and strategically minded individual who can help evolve the Planning function into a more insight-led, commercially responsive and technology-enabled capability.
- The position extends beyond traditional merchandise planning and requires an individual who can interpret complex trading data, identify behavioural and commercial patterns, challenge assumptions and translate insight into commercially actionable decisions across the business.
- Operating at the intersection of Planning, Commercial Strategy, Retail Intelligence, Data Analytics and Operational Decision Support, this role will play a key part in improving forecasting capability, inventory productivity, reporting frameworks and overall commercial responsiveness within the business. The successful individual will combine intellectual curiosity, analytical capability and commercial thinking with the ability to simplify complexity and influence decision-making at a senior level.
Reporting Structure:
- Reports to: Chief Creative Officer
- Direct Reports: Planning Team
Key Areas of Impact:
Commercial Planning & Strategic Analysis
- Lead the commercial planning function across categories and channels
- Translate business strategy and creative direction into integrated financial and merchandise planning frameworks
- Analyse trading performance, customer behaviour and product trends to identify opportunities, risks and emerging patterns
- Interrogate business assumptions and provide commercially grounded recommendations
Identify regional, category and behavioural trading trends to support proactive decision-making
- Drive strategic thinking around inventory productivity, assortment effectiveness and commercial responsiveness
- Accountable for delivering key commercial metrics, including sales, margin, stock turn and inventory productivity
- Ensure product direction is supported by commercially viable and scalable planning decisions
- Contribute to broader business planning, budgeting and commercial strategy discussions at the executive level
Data Interpretation & Business Intelligence
- Interpret large volumes of commercial, inventory and trading data to generate meaningful business insight
- Develop structured analytical frameworks to improve visibility and decision-making quality
- Lead in-season and post-season analysis to improve forecasting and commercial performance
- Build actionable reporting methodologies that simplify complex information into commercially usable insight
- Identify underlying causes of trading shifts, stock performance variances and customer behaviour changes
- Partner with leadership teams to support evidence-based commercial decisions
- Provide clear, structured and data-driven input into senior decision-making forums
Forecasting, Inventory & Commercial Performance
- Lead end-to-end planning across categories and channels
- Oversee demand forecasting, assortment planning and inventory optimisation strategies
- Improve forecasting responsiveness, planning agility and commercial decision-making speed
- Ensure alignment between range plans, inventory investment, financial targets and trading performance
- Drive stock productivity and working capital optimisation
- Reduce aged stock exposure and markdown risk
- Ensure effective allocation and replenishment strategies
- Align planning outputs with supply chain execution capability and commercial objectives
- Support pricing, replenishment and allocation decisions through analytical insight
Planning Capability & Systems Evolution
- Drive the ongoing evolution of the Planning function toward a more insight-led and technology-enabled operating model
- Lead the implementation, optimisation and enhancement of planning systems, tools and reporting capability
- Partner closely with IT and relevant stakeholders to improve analytical tools, reporting visibility and planning efficiency
- Support the evolution toward more automated and AI-enabled planning and reporting capability over time
- Ensure integrity, accuracy and effective commercial use of planning and product data
- Translate business requirements into practical process, system and operating model improvements
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, visibility and commercial responsiveness through better use of data and technology
- Reduce manual intervention through improved reporting structures and smarter analytical processes
Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence
- Lead and develop a commercially focused and analytically capable Planning function
- Build stronger commercial thinking, analytical capability and systems utilisation within the team
- Influence and align stakeholders across Creative, Retail, Buying, Supply Chain, Finance and IT
- Operate as a key commercial thought partner to leadership
- Drive accountability, structured thinking and continuous improvement across the function
- Foster a culture of curiosity, commercial ownership and data-informed decision-making
- Contribute to a high-performance environment focused on agility, collaboration and commercial excellence
What It Takes to Succeed:
Experience that sets you up for success:
- At least 10+ years’ experience within retail, commercial analytics, planning, business intelligence or related commercial functions
- 5+ years’ experience in merchandise planning and forecasting
- Proven experience operating in commercially complex retail or consumer-driven environments
- Demonstrated track record of delivering sales, margin, inventory and commercial performance outcomes
- Experience working cross-functionally with Planning, Finance, Retail, IT and Leadership teams
- Exposure to reporting evolution, systems enhancement or data-driven transformation initiatives advantageous
- Experience within premium retail, fashion, lifestyle or consumer-focused environments
Qualifications & Certifications that will contribute to your success:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Business Science, Finance, Statistics, Economics, Supply Chain, Data Analytics or related field is required
- Postgraduate qualification advantageous
- Exposure to BI, Power-BI, forecasting or planning systems advantageous
- Exposure to evolving AI-enabled reporting or planning environments advantageous
Additional Requirements that will enhance your impact for success:
- Strong commercial and financial acumen with advanced analytical capability
- Ability to interpret data, identify patterns and convert insight into commercially actionable recommendations
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving and commercially demanding environments
- Ability to challenge assumptions constructively while balancing strategic thinking with operational execution
- Advanced Excel and reporting capability
- Strong analytical reasoning and structured problem-solving capability
- Advanced data interpretation and commercial insight capability
- High levels of intellectual curiosity, commercial judgement and accountability
- Ability to simplify complexity and operate with both strategic and analytical focus
- Strong adaptability, resilience and continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to operate confidently within cross-functional and fast-moving commercial environments
Closing Date 30 September 2026
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Your Role:
- As a Flexi Store Assistant, you will be responsible for ensuring an outstanding shopping experience, supporting sales success, and upholding our brand’s reputation through meticulous stock and cash management.
Key Responsibilities:
Cash Control & Accuracy
- Perform cash desk duties efficiently while ensuring zero variances.
- Follow daily cash control and banking processes with precision.
- Handle manual transactions accurately when required.
Stock Management & Organisation
- Execute daily stock procedures to maintain seamless store operations.
- Assist in managing customer orders and ensuring timely fulfillment.
- Conduct weekly stock counts and maintain storeroom organisation.
- Complete shoe pairing exercises to uphold stock integrity.
Customer Service & Sales Support
- Deliver a premium shopping experience with expert product knowledge.
- Foster strong customer relationships by offering personalised service.
- Uphold the brand’s luxury standards through professionalism and enthusiasm.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- 6 months – 1 year of retail experience (luxury or fashion retail preferred)
- A passion for high-end fashion, footwear, and customer engagement
- Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and peak trading hours
Additional Skills & Attributes:
- Strong numerical ability and accuracy in handling transactions
- Ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple priorities
- A detail-oriented mindset to uphold brand standards
- A team player who thrives in a collaborative setting
- A natural ability to build relationships and engage with customers
Closing Date 08 September 2026
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Your Role:
- As a Flexi Store Assistant, you will be responsible for ensuring an outstanding shopping experience, supporting sales success, and upholding our brand’s reputation through meticulous stock and cash management.
Key Responsibilities:
Cash Control & Accuracy
- Perform cash desk duties efficiently while ensuring zero variances.
- Follow daily cash control and banking processes with precision.
- Handle manual transactions accurately when required.
Stock Management & Organisation
- Execute daily stock procedures to maintain seamless store operations.
- Assist in managing customer orders and ensuring timely fulfillment.
- Conduct weekly stock counts and maintain storeroom organisation.
- Complete shoe pairing exercises to uphold stock integrity.
Customer Service & Sales Support
- Deliver a premium shopping experience with expert product knowledge.
- Foster strong customer relationships by offering personalised service.
- Uphold the brand’s luxury standards through professionalism and enthusiasm.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- 6 months – 1 year of retail experience (luxury or fashion retail preferred)
- A passion for high-end fashion, footwear, and customer engagement
- Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and peak trading hours
Additional Skills & Attributes:
- Strong numerical ability and accuracy in handling transactions
- Ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple priorities
- A detail-oriented mindset to uphold brand standards
- A team player who thrives in a collaborative setting
- A natural ability to build relationships and engage with customers
Closing Date 08 September 2026
go to method of application »
Your Role
- As a Store Manager, you will be responsible for delivering an exceptional customer journey while ensuring operational and sales excellence. You will lead a passionate team, uphold the highest standards, and guarantee that every aspect of the store reflects the luxury, sophistication, and prestige that define our brand.
Reporting to: Regional Manager
Team: Permanent & Flexi Staff within the store
Key Areas of Impact
Creating an Exceptional Customer Experience
- Cultivate a service-driven culture, ensuring customers receive a world-class experience
- Implement action plans based on mystery shopper feedback to continuously elevate service standards
- Build strong relationships with customers and maintain a loyal client base
- Provide in-store coaching and continuous training to refine sales and service skills
Inspiring and leading a high-performance team
- Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-calibre retail team that embodies our brand values
- Drive performance through structured Individual Performance Agreements (IPAs), one-on-one coaching, and meaningful feedback sessions
- Recognise and reward excellence while ensuring accountability with clear expectations
- Foster a positive and motivating work environment that encourages growth
Driving Sales and Operational Excellence
- Monitor daily sales performance and ensure every team member contributes to store targets
- Analyse the income statement and manage expenses to maximise profitability
- Maintain optimal stock levels in alignment with customer demand and store needs
- Ensure compliance with in-store controls, visual merchandising standards, and premium store presentation
- Use key retail disciplines to manage store operations efficiently
Achieving Business Targets
- Deliver on key metrics, including trading density, basket size, and salary-to-sales ratios
- Align team performance with brand goals, ensuring a seamless and luxurious shopping experience
What It Takes to Succeed:
Experience that set you up for success:
- Minimum of 5 years’ retail experience
- At least 12 – 18 months of management experience in a retail environment
- A deep understanding of the retail landscape, including brand positioning and customer engagement
Qualifications & Certifications that will contribute to your success:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- Tertiary Retail Qualification (advantageous)
Additional Requirements that will enhance your impact for success:
- Knowledge of Industrial Relations (IR) laws and ability to initiate enquiries
- Strong understanding of profit & loss statements and retail financials
- Experience in merchandising, stock control, and store administration
- Ability to recruit and build a team that represents a luxury retail brand
Closing Date 08 September 2026
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Your Role:
- You will be responsible for ensuring a well-organised stock room, optimising stock flow to the sales floor, and implementing effective stock control measures to reduce losses and improve service delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
Stock Room Excellence & Efficiency
- Manage the stock room with precision, ensuring it operates at optimal efficiency
- Maintain high organisational standards to ensure quick and easy retrieval of stock
- Implement best practices for stock handling to minimise losses and discrepancies
- Ensure that all back-office and stock room standards align with company policies
Stock Management & Loss Prevention
- Ensure optimal service levels on the sales floor by managing stock flow efficiently
- Maintain accurate stock records and investigate all stock-related discrepancies
- Oversee write-offs and loss control, ensuring they remain within company standards
- Ensure only top-quality stock reaches the sales floor by preventing damaged stock from being sold
Customer Service & Sales Support
- Enhance customer experience by ensuring stock is always readily available
- Support the sales team by enabling smooth stock movement and accessibility
- Work collaboratively to maximise store profitability through effective stock control
Safety & Compliance
- Ensure the stock room complies with Occupational Health and Safety (OHASA) standards
- Maintain a safe and hazard-free working environment for team members
- Uphold all company policies and procedures related to stock and risk management
What You Need to Succeed:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- Minimum 2 years’ retail experience (luxury or fashion retail preferred)
- Strong understanding of stockroom operations and inventory management
Additional Skills & Attributes:
- Exceptional attention to detail and strong organisational skills
- Knowledge of relevant stock administration policies and procedures
- Ability to investigate and resolve stock-related discrepancies
- Strong communication skills to liaise with internal teams and management
- A deep understanding of retail back-office operations and OHASA standards
Closing Date 08 September 2026
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Your Role:
- As a Permanent Store Assistant, you will provide unparalleled service, support sales success, and uphold our brand’s reputation through meticulous stock and cash management.
Key Responsibilities:
Cash Control & Accuracy
- Perform cash desk duties with precision, ensuring zero variances
- Manage daily cash control and banking processes
- Handle manual transactions accurately and efficiently
Stock Management & Organisation
- Execute daily stock procedures to maintain store excellence
- Manage customer orders with efficiency and attention to detail
- Conduct weekly stock counts and ensure storeroom organisation
- Complete shoe pairing exercises to maintain display and stock integrity
Customer Service & Sales Support
- Deliver a premium shopping experience by offering expert product knowledge
- Build strong customer relationships through attentive service and styling advice
- Maintain a high level of professionalism and enthusiasm to reflect our brand’s values
What You Need to Succeed:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- 6 months – 1 year of retail experience (luxury or fashion retail preferred)
- A passion for high-end fashion, footwear, and customer engagement
Additional Skills & Attributes:
- Strong numerical ability and accuracy in handling transactions
- Ability to meet deadlines in a dynamic retail environment
- A detail-oriented mindset to uphold brand standards
- A team player who thrives in a collaborative setting
- A natural ability to build relationships and engage with customers
Closing Date 08 September 2026
go to method of application »
Your Role:
- As a Permanent Store Assistant, you will provide unparalleled service, support sales success, and uphold our brand’s reputation through meticulous stock and cash management.
Key Responsibilities:
Cash Control & Accuracy
- Perform cash desk duties with precision, ensuring zero variances
- Manage daily cash control and banking processes
- Handle manual transactions accurately and efficiently
Stock Management & Organisation
- Execute daily stock procedures to maintain store excellence
- Manage customer orders with efficiency and attention to detail
- Conduct weekly stock counts and ensure storeroom organisation
- Complete shoe pairing exercises to maintain display and stock integrity
Customer Service & Sales Support
- Deliver a premium shopping experience by offering expert product knowledge
- Build strong customer relationships through attentive service and styling advice
- Maintain a high level of professionalism and enthusiasm to reflect our brand’s values
What You Need to Succeed:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- 6 months – 1 year of retail experience (luxury or fashion retail preferred)
- A passion for high-end fashion, footwear, and customer engagement
Additional Skills & Attributes:
- Strong numerical ability and accuracy in handling transactions
- Ability to meet deadlines in a dynamic retail environment
- A detail-oriented mindset to uphold brand standards
- A team player who thrives in a collaborative setting
- A natural ability to build relationships and engage with customers
Closing Date 08 September 2026
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