Fresh Jobs at Mr Price Group

Job Description

• A Store Manager will lead a team of passionate associates in maximizing store sales/turnover, ensuring the stock loss benchmark is maintained and managing the administration of the store.

Responsibilities

• Promote sales. 
• Manage stock, and control expenses to meet business targets. 
• Achieve and/or exceed the required targets that are set out for the store. 
• Use store resources effectively to maintain the productivity of the store. 
• Encompass a thorough knowledge of stock and management of policies and procedures. 
• Act as the custodian of all company policies and procedures to ensure standards are met. 
• Assume accountability for the management and the training of all staff. 
• Maintaining the company culture by treating staff in a respectful and professional manner. 
• Ensure all interaction with customers results in an above-average customer service level. 
• Monitor the cleanliness and hygiene store and staff accordingly to ensure that it adheres to the relevant laws and company standards. 

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12, Mathematics an advantage 
• 2 years’ experience in a Retail Store Management or Assistant Store Manager role preferably in a similar retail  environment. 
• Excellent business English, both verbal and written  

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Job Description

• A Store Manager will lead a team of passionate associates in maximizing store sales/turnover, ensuring the stock loss benchmark is maintained and managing the administration of the store.

Responsibilities

• Promote sales. 
• Manage stock, and control expenses to meet business targets. 
• Achieve and/or exceed the required targets that are set out for the store. 
• Use store resources effectively to maintain the productivity of the store. 
• Encompass a thorough knowledge of stock and management of policies and procedures. 
• Act as the custodian of all company policies and procedures to ensure standards are met. 
• Assume accountability for the management and the training of all staff. 
• Maintaining the company culture by treating staff in a respectful and professional manner. 
• Ensure all interaction with customers results in an above-average customer service level. 
• Monitor the cleanliness and hygiene store and staff accordingly to ensure that it adheres to the relevant laws and company standards. 

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12, Mathematics an advantage 
• 2 years’ experience in a Retail Store Management or Assistant Store Manager role preferably in a similar retail  environment. 
• Excellent business English, both verbal and written  

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Job Description

• We are seeking a talented Mid Designer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have the ability to interpret briefs and create compelling designs for both print and digital media, aligning with our marketing objectives.

Responsibilities

Marketing Design

• Translate briefs and strategic requirements into compelling creative solutions.                                                           
• Create mock-ups that show clear execution of design ideas.
• Work with a Copywriter to generate ideas. 
• Work with Video team to generate video and online/social ideas.
• Design for print, digital and social platforms as well as events, activations and across design platforms.
• Prepare final artwork and liaise with the Reproduction department on quality control and Brand specs. 
• Assist Art Direction Lead and Senior Designers with campaign rollout.
•  Potential assistance on photoshoots from time to time if required.
• Continuous brainstorming and proactive research into design methodology and application.
• Team player, getting involved in all levels of work. 

Presentations / Meetings

• Compile presentations that clearly interpret your intentions and creative ideas.
• Presentation skills to communicate creative work to Brand teams and key stakeholders. 
• Attend and participate in concept and production meetings.   

Team Player

• Great communication and presentation skills.
• Willing to assist others with workload when needed.
• Collaboration of ideas with other team members.                                                                                                           
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements and priorities.                                                                                             
• Manage time effectively and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines. 

Shoots

• Attend and assist on shoots relevant to specific campaigns if required.

Qualifications

• Degree/Diploma in Design
• Omnichannel experience from retail preferred 
• Agency or Retail experience preferred 
• 3-4 years of graphic design experience
• Portfolio demonstrating design expertise.
• Art direction experience is an advantage 

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Job Description

• We are looking for an experienced Senior Designer to join our creative team. The ideal candidate will excel at interpreting briefs, conceptualizing strategic creative campaigns, and producing high-quality designs for both print and digital media in line with our marketing objectives.

Responsibilities
Marketing Design

• Translate briefs and strategic requirements into compelling creative solutions that connect with the target audience in a meaningful way.                                                                                        
• Conceptualize strategic campaigns and projects across design platforms.                                                                                          
• Create mock-ups that show clear execution of design ideas.
• Work with a Copywriter to generate ideas.
• Work with Video team to generate concepts for online/social ideas and possibly tv campaigns
• Design for print, digital, social platforms, activations, events or any platform that the creative campaign covers.
• Prepare final artwork and liaise with the Re-production department on quality control and Brand specs.
• Potential to be required to art direct on photoshoots on some campaigns.
• Continuous brainstorming and proactive research into design methodology and application.
• Assist Art Direction Leads with overall strategic direction for upcoming seasons.

Team Leadership/Support

• Overseeing and guiding mid designers to ensure their creative output aligns with the briefs.
• Mentoring and encouraging growth to junior and mid designers and members of the team.                                                       
• Providing feedback to designers on creative concepts to coach and guide their creative output.                    
• Attend and participate in concept brainstorms and work collaboratively with the team to develop differentiated creative campaigns.                                                                           
• Ability to manage time effectively and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.

Presentations/Meetings

• Compile presentations that clearly interpret your intentions and creative ideas.
• Presentation skills and effective communication skills to present creative work to Brand teams and key stakeholders. 
• Attend and participate in concept and production meetings.

Shoots

• Attend shoots relevant to specific campaigns when required.                                             
• Direct photographers and models on shoot according to approved campaign mood boards and elements required.

Qualifications

• Graphic Design qualification
• 6-7 years of graphic design experience 
• Fashion or retail campaign experience OR fast-paced agency experience
• Omnichannel experience in retail preferred
• 2-3 years of Art direction experience
• 1-2 years of management experience 
• Portfolio demonstrating design expertise.

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Job Description

• Mr Price has fantastic opportunity for a Marketing Coordinator. If you are a social savvy, content-obsessed and team player, thrive in a fast paced, dynamic retail environment, know how to spot a Mr Price content creator and love fashion and admin – this role could be yours. 

Responsibilities

• Identify, vet and recruit reactive content creators for upcoming campaigns. 
• Brief weekly reactive content creator briefs across sub brands ensuring that content is briefed timeously and content is received within the Mr Price standard. 
• Assist Brand Manager to ensure calendars are up-to-date. 
• Compile product documents including all key for content creator campaigns. 
• Assist Brand Manager with compiling monthly campaign reports to inform future campaign metrics. 
• Assist in any administrative support required by Brand team 
• Sourcing items in-store and packing product to send out to content creators. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, PR, communications, or related fields.
• 1-2 years marketing / content / social experience 
• Basic understanding of marketing fundamentals. MS Office (excel, word, power point, outlook).
• Candidate is required to have a vehicle. 

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Job Description
Our new Data Scientist needs to tick 3 boxes!

• Mad programming skills
• A sound business sense
• A data driven self-thinker
• The bottom line? Your primary responsibility will be to turn our heaps of data into actionable insight and improved efficiency.
• The team you would be joining is responsible for driving decisions utilising cloud data warehouse technologies, advanced visualisation, data science, along with solid collaboration!

Responsibilities

• Apply Machine Learning, Optimisation and AI techniques to our data with the aim of improving our business.
• Improve our business through analyses and hypotheses testing.
• Communicate insights, results and analyses to stakeholders.
• Promote and facilitate data-driven business decisions.
• Building relationships & gaining deep knowledge of the Mr Price business

Qualifications

• A degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Physics or Engineering
• 0-5 years’ experience in a data science, software development or quantitative analysis role.
• The skills below are preferred but not required. We expect more experienced candidates to tick more of these boxes and the successful candidate will learn all of these during their career at Mr Price.
• Python or R, using libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, tidyverse, etc
• SQL, Relational DBMS and data modelling – to source and transform your inputs and save and explore your outputs.
• Exploratory Data Analysis skills and Data Visualisation tools e.g. Excel, PowerBI, Tableau.
• Applied statistics or machine learning methods e.g. Neural Networks, Decision Trees, Time Series Analyses, Clustering, Regression, Deep Learning.
• Optimisation Techniques e.g. Linear Programming, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing
• Big Data processing platforms like Spark
• Responsible software engineering practices e.g. Version Control (git), Design Patterns, Reproducability, Deployment etc.
• LLMs and GenAI – to leverage advanced AI techniques for innovative solutions.