Fresh Jobs at Mr Price Group

Job Description

• You are an experienced and commercially-minded Head of Buying / Senior Merchandise Manager that will lead our homeware & kitchen buying function in playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our brand. You thrive on formulating strategies  to differentiate our company's product from those of our competitors across brands and private label and connect strongly with all stakeholders across the merchandise cycle/process. 

Responsibilities

• As Head of Buying, you will lead the merchandising function by providing operational oversight and setting appropriate direction for preparing merchandising calendars, determining optimal product mix and researching materials that encourage initial or repeat purchases.
• Leading a dynamic team, you’ll be responsible for driving product performance, identifying new opportunities, and ensuring our products continue to excite and delight customers.

Qualifications

• University degree (NQF 8 equivalent in commerce or related field)
• 8-10 years of experience with 5+ years in a senior / management role
• Extensive buying experience in the homeware or lifestyle sector
• Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of delivering sales/business growth and profitability
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to inspire and develop high-performing teams
• A deep understanding of trends, consumer behaviour, and the retail landscape
• Strategic & Analytical thinker with outstanding negotiation and supplier relationship management skills
• Passionate about product and brand with a keen eye for design and quality

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Job Description

• An Assistant Manager is accountable for relieving the Store Manager in their absence and assists in maintaining company standards of housekeeping, merchandising, shrinkage control, discipline, and security.

Responsibilities

• Banking of money 
• Relieve store manager 
• Maintain company standards of housekeeping, merchandising, shrinkage control, discipline, and security 
• Ensure compliance of all company procedures 
• Assist store manager in management of staff
• Ensure front end controls are in place 
• Oversee the cash office 
• Minimize stock loss Customer Service 
• Introduce sales initiatives to reach store targets

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12 (Mathematics an advantage) or NQF Level 4 
• Previous experience managing people 
• Previous experience managing a department 
• Previous clothing retail experience would be highly advantageous 
• Strong communication skills 
• Strong admin skills 
• Decision maker
• Organizational skills 
• Planning 
• Maintain productivity
• Leadership 
• Enthusiastic
• Ethical and great integrity 
• Honesty 
• Proactive 
• Self-motivated

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Job Description

• An Assistant Manager is accountable for relieving the Store Manager in their absence and assists in maintaining company standards of housekeeping, merchandising, shrinkage control, discipline, and security.

Responsibilities

• Banking of money 
• Relieve store manager 
• Maintain company standards of housekeeping, merchandising, shrinkage control, discipline, and security 
• Ensure compliance of all company procedures 
• Assist store manager in management of staff
• Ensure front end controls are in place 
• Oversee the cash office 
• Minimize stock loss Customer Service 
• Introduce sales initiatives to reach store targets

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12 (Mathematics an advantage) or NQF Level 4 
• Previous experience managing people 
• Previous experience managing a department 
• Previous clothing retail experience would be highly advantageous 
• Strong communication skills 
• Strong admin skills 
• Decision maker
• Organizational skills 
• Planning 
• Maintain productivity
• Leadership 
• Enthusiastic
• Ethical and great integrity 
• Honesty 
• Proactive 
• Self-motivated

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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

• 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:

• 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 the support center 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 with 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
• 3 Years’ of  Store or Assistant Store Management experience preferably in a similar style of retail store.
• Sales & service management.
• Budgeting.
• You are proficient in MS Office 
• Communication skills.
• Retail trade.
• Brand, customer & product understanding. 

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Job Description

• We’re looking for an innovative solutions architect, focused on ECommerce
• You would be the awesome person who analyses what technologies are available and suggest, design and implement creative and pragmatic technical solutions to achieve our business goals. 
• Become part of our innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team and shape the future of our retail landscape! Our architecture team includes experts in enterprise architecture, domain and solution architecture. We utilise industry leading technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

Solution Design                       

• Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
• Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
• Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
• Understanding non-functional requirements of a solution and mitigating risk by complying with governance and legislative requirements                                

Architecture Design                

• Participate in selecting the most appropriate technology (platform, tech-stack, framework) for a solution, as well as balancing architectural guidelines of the corporate environment
• Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy
• Keep abreast of the latest changes & trends in IT architecture to provide insights and recommendations to the business in regards to optimisation, improvements or adoption of new tools and technologies            

Business Domain                    

• Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
• Contribute technical thought leadership to influence discussions and decision-making within the group    

Team development                 

• Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers to become Solution Architects

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems 
• 5 or more years’ experience in IT solutions development and 3-5 years experience in solutions architecture           
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis and design, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking
• Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models
• Thorough understanding of EComm business domain; retail understanding advantageous 

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Job Description

• Are you an excellent communicator with great telephone and email etiquette? Do you have an affinity for troubleshooting computer and peripheral device problems? Do you have basic networking skills? 
• Then our position within our Service desk is a great first step into the IT field for you. 

Responsibilities

• Providing telephonic and email 1st line support and troubleshooting to all computer users at all Stores, within the Mr Price Group 
• Liaise with external service providers to escalate problems where required 
• Support our suppliers who use our software. 
• You will be required to work a maximum of 40 hours, over a maximum of 5 days per week including Saturdays and Sundays. 
• You would be required to work an 8-hour shift in line with the Service Desk operating hours. 
• Your own reliable transport is preferred. 

Qualifications

• Grade 12 
• IT diploma/ Certificate 
• At least 1 year in an IT or Helpdesk environment 
• The technical skills required are just a good general knowledge of computer hardware and software. Knowledge of our POS system would be a major advantage 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills 
• Excellent interpersonal and customer-facing skills Strong administration skills 
• Strong ability to work accurately with attention to detail 
• Familiarity with MS Office products 
• A high level of confidentiality 

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Job Description

• We’re looking for Telesales agents to join our Credit Sales team who will be responsible for selling credit products to customers over the telephone.   

Responsibilities

Direct Sales:

• Contact prospective customers to present information and explain available products.
• Delivered prepared sales talks, reading from a script that describes products, in order to persuade potential customers to purchase a product. Explain products and prices, and answer questions from customers.
• Ensure FAIS and FICA standards are adhered to when dealing with customer calls and correspondence. Update customer details and communication on customer debtor system (CDS). Ensure quality of calls in line with service level agreements (SLA's).                       

Updating Personal Information:

• Accurately updating customers' personal, employment and contact details to ensure right party contact.

What's in it for you?                          

• Achieve your targets and enjoy uncapped incentives. 
• We offer extensive learning and development opportunities to help you advance your career 
• Enjoy discounts on merchandise at all Mr Price Group stores, including Mr Price, Mr Price Home, Mr Price Sport, and Miladys 
• After one year of permanent service, you can join our share scheme and become a part-owner in the success of the company. Build your financial security with the long-term growth of your shares.  
• Vibrant work environment - join a dynamic and energetic team where every day is a new adventure
• Health and wellness programs: stay healthy and happy with our comprehensive wellness programs and benefits 
• Recognition and rewards: get recognized and rewarded for your achievements with our exciting incentive programs        

Qualifications

• Grade: 12
• Year Experience in Sales environment. (Specifically selling Life insurance policies).              
• Specific Knowledge in RE5 + FAIS is advantageous.
• Business Understanding of FSB Compliance, Code of Conduct & Relevant Legislation (NCA, POPI, etc

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Job Description

• Build key knowledge and a full understanding of our entire merchandise process under the direction of the Brand Merchant & the Talent Development Partner that will equip you to develop a category buy.  

Responsibilities

• Job Learning (Trade & Commercial Acumen): Apply learnt knowledge & skills by demonstrating awareness of the factors which could influence the way we perform in current trade, & manage opportunities & risks accordingly, considering the impact of competitors on our business. 
• Sample Management: Manage the departments samples in regard to our process from Fits, through to pre-production samples (PPS's) ensuring an accurate record of each is kept, and stored for future reference. Overseas samples require tagging post trip and storage for use in Strategies, reviews and assortment building processes. 
• Job Learning (Seasonal Strategy): Learn to create a seasonal strategy in collaboration with planning in order to plan the product assortment, spend allocation, supplier plan and marketing focus for the season, to achieve the company’s strategic objectives. 
• Job Learning (Assortment Building): Learn to prepare and present a well-considered product assortment according to the seasonal strategy. 
• Booking: Ensure orders are captured on the system in time to ensure our buying critical path process is adhered to.

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in Fashion Design or Clothing Management
• Knowledge of garment construction, fabrics, fibres & quality.
• Mathematical skills.
• Negotiation & presentation skills.