Hot Jobs at Cape Union Mart

• Are you a trend-savvy, design-led buyer with a passion for thoughtful gifting and sensorial body & wellness products? Poetry is looking for a creative, commercially minded Buyer/Product Developer to curate and grow our Body & Gifting category—bringing beautifully considered, meaningful products to life for our customer.
• This is an exciting opportunity to shape a key pillar of our Homeware offering, with a strong focus on body, bath, wellness and gifting. If you’re inspired by trends, grounded in strong commercial thinking, and love building ranges that feel both elevated and emotive, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do:

• Conceptualise and develop trend-forward, commercial Body & Gifting ranges that resonate with the Poetry customer.
• Source and procure unique products and brands—both locally and internationally—aligned to our brand DNA.
• Manage the full product lifecycle from concept to in-store and online, including critical path management, cost negotiation, supplier onboarding and range execution.
• Collaborate closely with design, marketing, e-commerce, visual merchandising and planning teams to bring ranges to life across all channels.
• Present seasonal range reviews and marketing briefs with strong storytelling, insight and trend direction.
• Build and nurture strategic supplier relationships, negotiating for quality, exclusivity, margin and innovation.
• Act as a category expert across Body, Bath & Wellness and Gifting, continuously identifying new opportunities for growth and differentiation.
• Monitor and manage category performance, using trends, sales data and customer feedback to evolve and refine the range.
• Support ad-hoc projects where relevant, including cross-functional or property-related initiatives where product knowledge adds value.

What You Bring:

• Relevant tertiary qualification and a Grade 12 certificate.
• Minimum 5 years’ buying experience within Body, Beauty, Wellness or Gifting (homeware-related categories advantageous).
• Proven experience in trend research, product development and supplier management.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end retail buying cycle and the commercial drivers behind successful ranges.
• A refined design eye with excellent attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, etc.).
• Strong commercial acumen, negotiation skills and confident decision-making ability.
• A proactive, collaborative mindset with a can-do attitude.
• Existing local and/or international supplier networks are a strong advantage.
• Exposure to or experience working with property-related projects or environments would be advantageous.

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Job Description

• Our Finance Team is looking for a dynamic and extremely capable candidate who has the ability to work both independently and with others. Furthermore, strong communicate skills and relationship-building capabilities at all levels will be a great asset.

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsibility for daily reconciling of store bank accounts and control accounts
• Follow up on any discrepancies noted during the reconciliation process and action accordingly
• Checking of daily cash deposits and petty cash transactions.
• Responsible for all customer and store queries relating to POS transactions
• Allocating of third party payments and transactions, including but not limited to RCS
• Prepare customer refunds where required.
• Able to operate across various legal entities within the Group, which includes entities outside of South Africa
• Prepare and capture inter-group invoices.
• Assist in ad-hoc management and audit queries.
• Providing superior customer service and administrative support

Qualifications

• Matric certificate is essential
• Any tertiary accounting certificate / Diploma will be beneficial

Role requirements:

• Knowledge of store day end processes regarding cash-ups and stock movements.
• Experience working with cashbooks (added advantage: Sage cashbook)
• Excellent attention to detail and strong numerical skills
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Office, specifically Excel
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise accordingly
• Ability to work in a pressurised environment within time constraints

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Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
• Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
• Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
• Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
• Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards to optimise sales.
• Create an inspiring environment. Have fun.
• Transact all purchases – receive, verify and processes all payments such as cash, cards, vouchers, coupons and any other acceptable payments.
• Ensure all out going stock/ items/ scripts are scanned and paid for.
• Process all loyalty cards including those of accelerated partners.
• Establish a professional relationship with customers and provide friendly, helpful, courteous assistance and advice to all customers.
• Report customer compliments and complaints to management.
• Attend to all customer stock queries and ensure that they dealt with and resolved.

Behavioural Requirements:  

• Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
• Building & maintaining relationships
• Innovation & change management
• Thinking adaptability
• Taking ownership
• Problem solving
• Trustworthy and honest
• Time management
• Exceptional customer service

Minimum Requirement. 

Essential:

• Matric or Equivalent
• Up to 6 months retail experience 

Special conditions of employment: 

• Clear Credit and Criminal record
• Willing and able to work retail hours.
• South African citizen

Advantageous: 

• 1 year work experience within retail.
• Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for) Willing and able to work retail hours.
   

go to method of application »

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
• Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
• Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
• Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
• Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards in order to optimise sales.
• Create an inspiring environment

Behavioural Requirements:   

• Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
• Building & maintaining relationships
• Innovation & change management
• Thinking adaptability
• Taking ownership

Minimum Requirement. 

• 6 months of retail experience
• Matric or Equivalent
• Clear Criminal record
• Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for)
   

go to method of application »

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
• Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
• Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
• Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
• Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards to optimise sales.
• Create an inspiring environment. Have fun.
• Transact all purchases – receive, verify and processes all payments such as cash, cards, vouchers, coupons and any other acceptable payments.
• Ensure all out going stock/ items/ scripts are scanned and paid for.
• Process all loyalty cards including those of accelerated partners.
• Establish a professional relationship with customers and provide friendly, helpful, courteous assistance and advice to all customers.
• Report customer compliments and complaints to management.
• Attend to all customer stock queries and ensure that they dealt with and resolved.

Behavioural Requirements:  

• Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
• Building & maintaining relationships
• Innovation & change management
• Thinking adaptability
• Taking ownership
• Problem solving
• Trustworthy and honest
• Time management
• Exceptional customer service

Minimum Requirement. 

Essential:

• Matric or Equivalent
• Up to 6 months retail experience 

Special conditions of employment: 

• Clear Credit and Criminal record
• Willing and able to work retail hours.
• South African citizen

Advantageous: 

• 1 year work experience within retail.
• Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for) Willing and able to work retail hours.