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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’re looking for an innovative solutions architect, focused on Financial Services & Finance!
• 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 Financial services or Finance business domain; retail understanding advantageous       

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Job Description

• We need a new Computer Operator to make sure the hamster wheel keeps turning.
• Please note: This is a 3 month contract role
• You would oversee the running of IT systems on a contract basis, by monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, escalating, and reporting critical jobs, data transmission and environmental threats (power, floods, fire) to drive IT stability, minimise downtime and ensure all processes are completed timeously with quality. 

Responsibilities

• 24/7 Monitoring of data transmission, critical jobs, relevant dashboards.
• Performing daily health checks
• Fine tuning of configuration to maintain performance and functionality of the monitoring solutions in place.
• Incident Management
• First line troubleshooting of incidents with specific focus on data management.
• Identifying, escalating and following up of Priority 1 incidents until closure to external vendors or internal departments detailing specifics of an issue on hand.
• Performing defined/documented tasks as per Company Run Controls.
• Complete special added tasks (mainly data related)

Qualifications

• You have a relevant IT Qualification (Or are currently studying towards one)
• You have a minimum of 1 year IT support experience within a network or server monitoring role
• Your Office365 skills are great, specifically in Excel
• You understand SQL and database structures
• You’re able to work shifts (day, night, and weekends)
• You have access to your own vehicle 
   

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Job Description

• Our POS Engineer will assist in researching and designing Point of Sale and other in-store associate and Customer-facing technologies. Ensure successful testing and rollout of technologies. Provide post-project issue resolution and support and input into the product documentation and support requirements for Omni Channel solutions.

Responsibilities

• In Store Product research, design and deployment- Assist in design and setup of solutions in development as required by internal and external solution providers.  Assists with the installation of in- development solutions, escalates to and resolves issues where required with internal teams and external suppliers.       
• Product Technical Documentation- Creates & distributes accurate technical documentation for Omni Channel solutions to stakeholders.     
• POC / POV Trial Site Support - Facilitates and performs installation of POS (Proof of Concept) POV (Proof Of Value) solutions, work with developers and system providers to ensure POC /POV can be implemented efficiently to enable the measurement and feedback required. 
• Post Project Escalation Support - Provides advanced technical support and guidance to stakeholders on solutions in use, facilitates efficient developer engagement to resolve complex / unknown solution issues arising from production              
• "Product Functionality - Provides input into product functionality based on feedback obtained through stakeholder engagement and experience of IT solution requirements in the Omni Channel environment 

Qualifications

• 3 Year IT Diploma/ Degree or CompTIA Certification         
• Diplomas: Minimum 5 Year IT Experience. 
• SQL Server, Database querying, Web Services, Office 365, Delphi Installation and fault finding, Point of Sale hardware PC and Peripherals. Point of Sale software and Integrations.
• Strong Point of Sale knowledge. Knowledge of Work Domain preferably IT solutions in a Omni Channel & In store environment