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- This opportunity is ideal for individuals studying or qualified in Sports Science, Physiotherapy, Biokinetics, Exercise Science, Human Movement Science, or those with strong involvement in running and athletic communities.
- You will become the trusted technical expert within specialist Swim-Bike-Run and sporting goods retail environments, helping consumers understand how footwear, gait, biomechanics, cushioning systems, and product technologies influence comfort and performance.
- The role combines performance science, customer engagement, education, and sales, offering a unique opportunity to apply your passion and knowledge within a leading global running brand.
Top performers will:
- Build authentic relationships with runners and retail teams
- Translate technical product features into performance benefits
- Educate consumers on footwear selection, biomechanics, injury prevention, and comfort
- Drive product sell-through through trusted recommendations and exceptional service
- Become recognised as a credible expert within local running communities
Major Accountabilities
Consumer Engagement & Technical Product Expertise
- Deliver exceptional in-store experiences by assessing customer needs and recommending suitable footwear and apparel solutions
- Explain Brooks technologies, cushioning systems, support structures, and performance benefits in simple, engaging ways
- Provide guidance related to running styles, comfort, movement patterns, and general biomechanics
- Help consumers make informed purchase decisions aligned to training goals and performance needs
Education & Retail Team Training
- Conduct technical product training for store staff to increase confidence and product knowledge
- Act as the Brooks subject matter expert within assigned stores
- Support ongoing education around running performance, footwear innovation, and category trends
Brand Representation & Community Engagement
- Represent Brooks at races, running clubs, community activations, product launches, and sporting events
- Build relationships within local running and endurance sport communities
- Support initiatives that strengthen Brooks’ presence among runners and athletes
Sales & Retail Excellence
- Drive achievement of sales targets through authentic consumer engagement and product advocacy
- Monitor competitor activity and identify opportunities to increase market share
- Support merchandising standards, seasonal launches, promotions, and product visibility
- Monitor stock levels and identify opportunities to improve sell-through
Reporting & Territory Management
- Maintain accurate reporting on store visits, sales activity, training sessions, and market feedback
- Manage schedules effectively across assigned retail locations
- Provide insights to support business growth and customer experience improvements
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
Successful Product Specialists consistently:
- Deliver outstanding experiences to runners and athletes
- Translate performance science into meaningful consumer guidance
- Build credibility through technical expertise and passion
- Strengthen retailer confidence in the Brooks brand
- Increase product sell-through and brand advocacy
- Become recognised contributors within local running communities
Requirements
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS
We are looking for individuals who are:
- Currently studying or qualified in Sports Science, Physiotherapy, Biokinetics, Exercise Science, Human Movement Science, or related disciplines (advantageous)
- Passionate about running, athletics, endurance sports, health, fitness, or rehabilitation
- Active participants in running communities, gyms, sports clubs, or athletic environments (advantageous)
- Interested in applying sports performance knowledge in a consumer-facing environment
- Strong communicators with the ability to simplify technical concepts
- Comfortable educating and influencing consumers and retail teams
- Energetic, self-motivated, and confident engaging with people
- Organised with strong planning and territory management skills
- Available to work flexible schedules, including weekends and sporting events
- Comfortable travelling between retail locations as required
- Previous retail or sales experience is beneficial but not essential — passion, technical curiosity, and enthusiasm for sport are highly valued.
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Store Placement:
- Be placed in stores according to the HP Retail Store Base and current structure, ensuring optimal coverage and representation.
Policy Adherence:
- Follow the policies and guidelines communicated by the store, maintaining compliance with regulations and standards.
Weekly Meetings:
- Meet with the Area Manager once a week for reports, concerns, feedback, plans, directives, and material handover such as POSM and challenges.
Weekend Activations:
- Conduct weekend activations as mandatory activities, engaging with customers and promoting HP products.
Execution Excellence:
- Secure the #1 position in store for all executions, ensuring optimal visibility and prominence of HP products.
Price Ticket Maintenance:
- Ensure daily maintenance of correct price tickets in store, both on and off promotion, to accurately reflect pricing and promotions.
Merchandising Execution:
- Execute in-store merchandising according to HP and Retailers' directives and/or planograms, maintaining consistency and quality.
Relationship Building:
- Build fruitful relationships with retailers and their staff, fostering collaboration and support for HP products.
Professionalism:
- Adhere to a dress code supplied by HP, always presenting a professional and polished image.
Demonstrations and Engagement:
- Conduct demonstrations as required and aligned with key SKUs and product focus, engaging with customers to showcase product features and benefits.
Hygiene and Maintenance:
- Ensure demo product maintenance and hygiene, always keeping demonstration materials clean and presentable.
Event Support:
- Provide support to retailers when HP Brand is involved with store-related events or activities, contributing to the success of promotional initiatives.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- High school diploma or equivalent required; additional education or training in sales or marketing preferred.
- Previous experience in retail sales, customer service, or brand promotion preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers and retailers.
- Strong presentation skills, with the ability to showcase product features and benefits in a compelling manner.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on execution excellence.
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively in a fast-paced retail environment.
ATTRIBUTES:
- Enthusiastic and outgoing with a passion for customer engagement.
- Professional demeanour with a commitment to representing the HP brand with integrity.
- Adaptability and flexibility to work weekends and accommodate changing schedules.
- Team player with a collaborative mindset and willingness to support team objectives
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Description
- We are on the lookout for a Sales Consultant in DBN North- Gateway
As a Sales Consultant, you will be responsible for:
- Customer Satisfaction and Service
- In-store Sales and Marketing
- Administration
Requirements
- 2-3 years’ experience in Sales
- Matric
- Sales acumen
- Marketing principle knowledge
- Customer service skills
- Administration skills
- Communication skills (verbal & written)
- Computer literacy – MS office suite
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Store Placement:
- Be placed in stores according to the HP Retail Store Base and current structure, ensuring optimal coverage and representation.
Policy Adherence:
- Follow the policies and guidelines communicated by the store, maintaining compliance with regulations and standards.
Weekly Meetings:
- Meet with the Area Manager once a week for reports, concerns, feedback, plans, directives, and material handover such as POSM and challenges.
Weekend Activations:
- Conduct weekend activations as mandatory activities, engaging with customers and promoting HP products.
Execution Excellence:
- Secure the #1 position in store for all executions, ensuring optimal visibility and prominence of HP products.
Price Ticket Maintenance:
- Ensure daily maintenance of correct price tickets in store, both on and off promotion, to accurately reflect pricing and promotions.
Merchandising Execution:
- Execute in-store merchandising according to HP and Retailers' directives and/or planograms, maintaining consistency and quality.
Relationship Building:
- Build fruitful relationships with retailers and their staff, fostering collaboration and support for HP products.
Professionalism:
- Adhere to a dress code supplied by HP, always presenting a professional and polished image.
Demonstrations and Engagement:
- Conduct demonstrations as required and aligned with key SKUs and product focus, engaging with customers to showcase product features and benefits.
Hygiene and Maintenance:
- Ensure demo product maintenance and hygiene, always keeping demonstration materials clean and presentable.
Event Support:
- Provide support to retailers when HP Brand is involved with store-related events or activities, contributing to the success of promotional initiatives.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- High school diploma or equivalent required; additional education or training in sales or marketing preferred.
- Previous experience in retail sales, customer service, or brand promotion preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers and retailers.
- Strong presentation skills, with the ability to showcase product features and benefits in a compelling manner.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on execution excellence.
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively in a fast-paced retail environment.
ATTRIBUTES:
- Enthusiastic and outgoing with a passion for customer engagement.
- Professional demeanour with a commitment to representing the HP brand with integrity.
- Adaptability and flexibility to work weekends and accommodate changing schedules.
- Team player with a collaborative mindset and willingness to support team objectives
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Description
- As a Payroll Officer I, you will play a vital role in ensuring the efficiency and accuracy of our Payroll department. Your main mission will be to ensure that employee information is received, validated, and processed accurately and on time for payment, all while adhering to group policies and procedures.
As a Payroll Officer, you will be responsible for:
Input Processing:
- Collect salary input documents required, and follow up on outstanding documents
- Scrutinise salary documents for abnormalities
- Compare input submitted is aligned to CRS to ensure salary documents are accounted for and
- completed as per company policy
- Ensure all abnormalities and incomplete documents are logged on HR query list
- Prepare documents for processing
- Process input documents and capture onto payroll system
- Ensure input is captured accurately and on time, and take corrective action when necessary
- Ensure timeous action taken relating to finalization of queries
- Ensure adherence to all deadlines and company procedures and policies
- Ensure the ability to provide context and detail when calculating
- Ensure availability of documents captured within the applicable month if and when queried
Salary Administration:
- Provide feedback to employees and management regarding queries within 48 hours
- Report abnormalities to line manager for clarification
- Highlight departmental input and effectiveness/ errors
- Resolve salary clearing queries and provide feedback to Management
- Load payments (EFT’s) and ensure payroll runs as per deadline dates
- Ensure all stop payments and recalls are done by deadline date and are accompanied by reversals if and when necessary
- Ensure reversals of payments are done within the applicable month to ensure corrective action taken for recalls
- Run General Ledger and ensure it balances to Payrun total report
Payroll Reports:
- Scrutinize all exception error reports, correct immediately and provide feedback to Senior Payroll Officer
- Ensure the continuous checking and correction of reports to minimize month end queries
- Ensure all reports are approved and signed-off
- Maintain audit requirements
- Ensure that contract dates are accurate
Benefits Administration:
- Maintain effective records to ensure proof can be provided regarding submissions and payment to 3rd parties
- Manage Garnishee’s queries to be dealt with directly
- Ensure UI19 documents are generated immediately upon receipt of termination documents
- Ensure terminations are updated on Garnishee and Medical Aid tracker
Requirements
What are we looking for?
To qualify for this role, you should
- 1-3 years administration experience capturing data and validation and verifying remuneration related issues
- Diploma/NQF level 5
- Computer literacy - MS office suite
- Organisational awareness
- Accuracy
- Attention to detail
- Time management
- Interpersonal skills
- Numerical reasoning
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive benefits package
- Joining a company that has a passion for people development and career growth
- Opportunity to work remotely
- A dynamic team culture
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Description
- Manage Promotional Activity|
- Pro-Active Operational Excellence|
- Teamwork and Self-Management|
- People Management |
- Efficient Achievement of Targets|
- Monitor New Innovations|
- Business Insights and Execution|
- Control Expenses|
- Stakeholder Engagement|
- Achieve POP Objectives|
Requirements
- 3-5 years sales experience in FMCG environment at a managerial/ supervisory level
- Relevant Diploma/Degree at NQF level 6 or 7
- Code 8 Driver’s license
- Sales management skills
- Decision making skills
- Communication (verbal & written)
- Analysis & Problem Solving
- Computer literacy
- Business acumen
- Commercial awareness
- Attention to detail
- Pro-active thinking
- Leadership Skills
- Planning & organising
- Negotiation skills
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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Store Placement:
- Be placed in stores according to the HP Retail Store Base and current structure, ensuring optimal coverage and representation.
Policy Adherence:
- Follow the policies and guidelines communicated by the store, maintaining compliance with regulations and standards.
Weekly Meetings:
- Meet with the Area Manager once a week for reports, concerns, feedback, plans, directives, and material handover such as POSM and challenges.
Weekend Activations:
- Conduct weekend activations as mandatory activities, engaging with customers and promoting HP products.
Execution Excellence:
- Secure the #1 position in store for all executions, ensuring optimal visibility and prominence of HP products.
Price Ticket Maintenance:
- Ensure daily maintenance of correct price tickets in store, both on and off promotion, to accurately reflect pricing and promotions.
Merchandising Execution:
- Execute in-store merchandising according to HP and Retailers' directives and/or planograms, maintaining consistency and quality.
Relationship Building:
- Build fruitful relationships with retailers and their staff, fostering collaboration and support for HP products.
Professionalism:
- Adhere to a dress code supplied by HP, always presenting a professional and polished image.
Demonstrations and Engagement:
- Conduct demonstrations as required and aligned with key SKUs and product focus, engaging with customers to showcase product features and benefits.
Hygiene and Maintenance:
- Ensure demo product maintenance and hygiene, always keeping demonstration materials clean and presentable.
Event Support:
- Provide support to retailers when HP Brand is involved with store-related events or activities, contributing to the success of promotional initiatives.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- High school diploma or equivalent required; additional education or training in sales or marketing preferred.
- Previous experience in retail sales, customer service, or brand promotion preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers and retailers.
- Strong presentation skills, with the ability to showcase product features and benefits in a compelling manner.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on execution excellence.
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively in a fast-paced retail environment.
ATTRIBUTES:
- Enthusiastic and outgoing with a passion for customer engagement.
- Professional demeanour with a commitment to representing the HP brand with integrity.
- Adaptability and flexibility to work weekends and accommodate changing schedules.
- Team player with a collaborative mindset and willingness to support team objectives
go to method of application »
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Store Placement:
- Be placed in stores according to the HP Retail Store Base and current structure, ensuring optimal coverage and representation.
Policy Adherence:
- Follow the policies and guidelines communicated by the store, maintaining compliance with regulations and standards.
Weekly Meetings:
- Meet with the Area Manager once a week for reports, concerns, feedback, plans, directives, and material handover such as POSM and challenges.
Weekend Activations:
- Conduct weekend activations as mandatory activities, engaging with customers and promoting HP products.
Execution Excellence:
- Secure the #1 position in store for all executions, ensuring optimal visibility and prominence of HP products.
Price Ticket Maintenance:
- Ensure daily maintenance of correct price tickets in store, both on and off promotion, to accurately reflect pricing and promotions.
Merchandising Execution:
- Execute in-store merchandising according to HP and Retailers' directives and/or planograms, maintaining consistency and quality.
Relationship Building:
- Build fruitful relationships with retailers and their staff, fostering collaboration and support for HP products.
Professionalism:
- Adhere to a dress code supplied by HP, always presenting a professional and polished image.
Demonstrations and Engagement:
- Conduct demonstrations as required and aligned with key SKUs and product focus, engaging with customers to showcase product features and benefits.
Hygiene and Maintenance:
- Ensure demo product maintenance and hygiene, always keeping demonstration materials clean and presentable.
Event Support:
- Provide support to retailers when HP Brand is involved with store-related events or activities, contributing to the success of promotional initiatives.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- High school diploma or equivalent required; additional education or training in sales or marketing preferred.
- Previous experience in retail sales, customer service, or brand promotion preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers and retailers.
- Strong presentation skills, with the ability to showcase product features and benefits in a compelling manner.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on execution excellence.
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively in a fast-paced retail environment.
ATTRIBUTES:
- Enthusiastic and outgoing with a passion for customer engagement.
- Professional demeanour with a commitment to representing the HP brand with integrity.
- Adaptability and flexibility to work weekends and accommodate changing schedules.
- Team player with a collaborative mindset and willingness to support team objectives
go to method of application »
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Store Placement:
- Be placed in stores according to the HP Retail Store Base and current structure, ensuring optimal coverage and representation.
Policy Adherence:
- Follow the policies and guidelines communicated by the store, maintaining compliance with regulations and standards.
Weekly Meetings:
- Meet with the Area Manager once a week for reports, concerns, feedback, plans, directives, and material handover such as POSM and challenges.
Weekend Activations:
- Conduct weekend activations as mandatory activities, engaging with customers and promoting HP products.
Execution Excellence:
- Secure the #1 position in store for all executions, ensuring optimal visibility and prominence of HP products.
Price Ticket Maintenance:
- Ensure daily maintenance of correct price tickets in store, both on and off promotion, to accurately reflect pricing and promotions.
Merchandising Execution:
- Execute in-store merchandising according to HP and Retailers' directives and/or planograms, maintaining consistency and quality.
Relationship Building:
- Build fruitful relationships with retailers and their staff, fostering collaboration and support for HP products.
Professionalism:
- Adhere to a dress code supplied by HP, always presenting a professional and polished image.
Demonstrations and Engagement:
- Conduct demonstrations as required and aligned with key SKUs and product focus, engaging with customers to showcase product features and benefits.
Hygiene and Maintenance:
- Ensure demo product maintenance and hygiene, always keeping demonstration materials clean and presentable.
Event Support:
- Provide support to retailers when HP Brand is involved with store-related events or activities, contributing to the success of promotional initiatives.
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:
- High school diploma or equivalent required; additional education or training in sales or marketing preferred.
- Previous experience in retail sales, customer service, or brand promotion preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers and retailers.
- Strong presentation skills, with the ability to showcase product features and benefits in a compelling manner.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on execution excellence.
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively in a fast-paced retail environment.
ATTRIBUTES:
- Enthusiastic and outgoing with a passion for customer engagement.
- Professional demeanour with a commitment to representing the HP brand with integrity.
- Adaptability and flexibility to work weekends and accommodate changing schedules.
- Team player with a collaborative mindset and willingness to support team objectives
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