Job Openings at Mr Price Group

a day in your life?

• Demonstrating creativity and good business acumen to create an exceptional virtual shopping experience for shoppers, providing key information and creating the perfect visual experience. 

• Ensure that the products allocated to the online store have the correct information and are launched online in time.  

• Ensure that merchandise visual presentation quality, style and application are captured in such a way that it optimizes the sale of the respective merchandise.

• Create and load appropriate categorization for each product category.

• Align launching on products with key campaign

• Management of the physical ecommerce store: in terms of fragmentation and clearance.

• Marketing integration by working closely with the Online Marketer which will assist to understand which products have led customers to our e-commerce store and their respective buying and browsing behavior.

• Sales accountability to the Brand Merchants to drive sales of their respective merchandise which will involve constant collaboration with the brand merchants.

• Analytics and reporting

• Attend relevant e-Commerce meetings

• Manage ad-hoc and tactical campaigns

• Quality control off the e-Commerce site

what we're looking for to apply?

• 3 – 4 years of experience in s similar role, working in a fast-paced/high-growth environment would be desirable

• A relevant Degree or Diploma

• Flair for fashion

• Highly motivated

• Strong team player

• Can work under pressure

• Deadline driven

• Ability to apply a business mind set recommended and apply changes for improvement

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Reliable

• Ambitious, energetic, and self-driven

• Attention to detail

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purpose

To develop and execute seasonal merchandise strategies for a respective categories under supervision taking into account the business strategy, past sales history and current trade in order to forecast stock and sales and build a contemporary homeware to delight our customer.                                                                                                                                                                                         

key responsibilities

1. Forecasting Stock and Sales:

• Development of an accurate sales forecast, in order to determine optimal stock levels for the purpose of maximizing revenue and gross profit for the category/ies.              

1. Trade Optimization:

• Continuously identifying areas of opportunity and risk within the current execution of planned stock and sales forecasted and development/implementation of individual portfolio actions to correct the projection in order to maintain the forecasted sales trajectory.

1. Merchandise Process:

• Preparation and presentation of meaningful proposals for relevant portfolio based on the analysis of relevant product performance data, market research, industry best practice and innovation in order to provide the customer with an assortment of quality fashionable and contemporary homeware at value pricing to drive sales and business profit.                                   

1. Reporting & Analysis:

• Extraction and analysis of reports in order to provide commentary and insight, under the supervision of Senior Planner, for use in day to day operations and Merchandise Review Processes (Window, PM, Strat) in order to further the seasonal merchandise strategy.

1. Administration:

• Execution of various administrative items in order to ensure the efficient functioning of the Planning and function and execution of the business strategy.

requirements

1. Education:

• Relevant Degree or Diploma (Bachelor of Commerce (Finance, Supply Chain & Logistics, Retail Business Management, Economics related).

1. Experience:

• 2-4 Years planning experience in Retail.

• 1-2 Years’ experience as a Trainee Planner.

1. Knowledge/ Skills:

• Microsoft Office (Excel proficient).

• Business Acumen.

• Numerical skills.

• Retail knowledge.

• Stock Flow Management.

• Sales Forecasting.

• Analysis.

• Planning KPIs (Key Performance Indicator).

• Global Logistics.                                                  

• Business and commercial acumen 

• Relevant experience on a planning system  replenishment system

• Operations (store) knowledge (grades, profiles etc).

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your purpose

Are you ambitious, meticulous?

• Are you looking for a role that will offer you an opportunity to grow and learn within a Finance function?
• Sheet Street has an exciting career opportunity available within their finance team for a Finance Business Partner.
• Your purpose is to offer support to the Financial Director. A high level of accuracy and attention to detail is of utmost importance.

your responsibilities

Strategy:

• Contribute to the development of the company strategy by providing financial advice, insights and support and ensure communication & a clear understanding thereof throughout the finance team.

Reporting:

• Compilation and submission of reports weekly, monthly, at half-year and year-end and annually (e.g., Group financial reporting pack - board pack, half-year & year-end financial packs, annual budget packs, general ledger, trial balance etc.). to submit to stakeholders to ensure compliance with audit requirements & deliverables.

Analysis:

• Use business insights and provide cost centre analysis against budget to provide feedback and/or recommendations at monthly meetings with the relevant manager

Financial Management:

• Ensure effective control of costs, cash flow management and other finance efficiencies (e.g., monthly forecasting, review of the one-liner, stock levels, stock ageing, etc.) to maintain the businesses general administration.

Payments:

• Approve and release payments to suppliers ensuring that invoices appear on statements and contain correct regulatory information

Financial Packs, BS Revaluation:

• Completion of financial Packs for Foreign Entities at HY & FY. Includes revaluation of the balance sheet to spot rate for countries with exchange rate implications. Compilation of disclosure schedules for Group & external auditors (Legal, consulting, OS Travel)

what are the requirements?

• BCOMPT Honours. CIMA or CA (SA) advantageous
• 1 - 2 years experience
• Advanced Microsoft Office (word, excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Accounting; Commercial Acumen & Intelligence; Communication Skills; Financial Analysis, Planning & Budgeting; Process Knowledge; Risk Management
• Retail Experience; Market Intelligence

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To apply, you’d need to have at least 5 years’ experience with the below:

• PHP

• Databases such as MySQL or SQL Server

• HTML/CSS

• JavaScript (REACT and/or Angular frameworks)

• Microsoft Azure

• GraphQL (Advantage)

• Magento (Advantage)

• Web service development

• GitLab or GitHub

• Understanding of C# and/or Java

a day in your life?

• Working with our eCommerce team on cool development projects

• Estimating development timelines

• Solving technical problems

• Creating a Technical Functional Specification and writing code

• Develop, enhance and maintain applications that conform to user requirements and specified architectural design with little supervision in well designed and efficient code

• Elements of change control

• Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes

• Release process management

• Use development frameworks, methodologies, and procedures to facilitate application design and delivery according to technical specifications

• Conduct necessary unit testing (Stress, Integration and Unit)

• Conduct post implementation monitoring

• Document support handover documentation

• Complete and maintain relevant documentation and version control disciplines to maintain source code

• Mentor junior developers and managing business stakeholders

• Using waterfall / agile methodologies for project delivery

• Working with all levels of the project teams (Project Managers, Business Analysts, Managers etc) and 3rd party technical vendors

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To apply, you’d need 3-5 years working with:

• Database design and development in Microsoft SQL Server and/or MySQL
• SQL Transactions
• Error handling
• SQL Job Schedular
• Reading and generating XML data files
• Routine maintenance, recovery, and handling failover of a database
• GraphQL
• Amazon Web services and/or MS Azure
• GitLab

a day in your life?

• Working with our eCommerce team on cool development projects
• Design and development of SQL tables, stored procedures, functions, views, schema, SQL Joins, SQL Types, set based operations
• Developing SQL queries to import from and export to XML
• Working with Service broker queues, contracts, message types
• Data Analysis
• Develop, enhance and maintain applications that conform to user requirements and specified architectural design
• Use development frameworks, methodologies, and procedures to facilitate application design
• Version Control
• Release process management
• Estimating development timelines
• Solving technical problems
• Test the software with various forms of testing including Stress, Integration and Unit
• Conduct post implementation monitoring and support
• Compile and maintain technical and support documentation
• Working with 3rd party technical vendors
• Mentor junior developers