Job Openings at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

• We are looking for a Bakery Manager to optimise the performance of the Bakery by ensuring that the in-store execution is according to business strategy, guidelines and standards. The ideal candidate has well developed interpersonal skills, the ability to build long term relationships based on trust and technical expertise and is driven by achieving challenging goals and targets.

Minimum requirements

• Grade 12 and/or NQF 3 Bakery qualification
• Experience as a bakery supervisor or bakery manager or relieved for minimum 6 months in this capacity
• Bakery experience is essential

Competencies

• Attention to detail
• Numerical Reasoning
• Drive
• Action Orientated
• Judgement & Decision Making
• Sense of Urgency
• Organising and Planning
• Assertiveness
• Customer orientated
• Computer Literacy
• Financial Acumen ​

Key responsibilities

• Planning - Implement the in-store execution in the Bakery department
• Store Standards - Set and monitor standards in the Bakary
• Ensure that Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) are executed
• Administration - Complete all department administration (i.e. scheduling, leave requests, invoices and compliance administration) is completed according to standard
• Merchandising Standards - Ensure that merchandising standards and sales promotions are according to laid down standards
• Customer focus - Identify customer needs and plan accordingly in the bakery
• People Management - Manage staff to ensure that all safety, merchandising, customer interaction and security standards are maintained

Closing date: 07 October 2025

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• To ensure product range, product specification, quality, packaging and food safety requirements are adhered to.

Minimum Requirements

• Food Technologist diploma or post graduate degree, Food Science or equivelant degree with 5 years experience in the relevant food related field.
• Production knowledge in Meal Solutions - High risk ready to eat foods and Bakery
• Must be familiar with the applicable regulations (DoH), (DAFF); Standards (SANS)
• Must be computer literate (MS Office Programmes).
• Experience in auditing will be an added advantage.
• Must be familiar with R146 Labelling act to be able to complete packaging briefs

Competencies

• Ability to constantly identify discrepancies, inconsistencies and mistakes.
• Assertiveness
• Influencing
• Team Orientation
• Results Orientation/Drive
• Initiative
• Be able to gather reviews and interprets information to identify trends, draw conclusions and generate appropriate responses.
• Need to be able to work sistamatic, thorough and indipendantly.
• Ability to work together in a spirit of co-operation and teamwork.
• Able to establish and maintain relationships with all stakeholders.
• Always searches for improvement in order to achieve better results through new ideas, methods and approaches.
• Positively influences the opinions, attitudes and behavior of others.

Key Responsibilities

• Supplier management through supplier engagement which include supplier visits and technical supplier meetings
• Monitor product quality by doing store visits and regular product evalutations.
• Assist with new product developments through factory trials, product analysis (chemical, microbiological and physical analysis).
• Building supplier relationships & verifying suppliers’ adherence to regulations, standards and PnP requirements
• Assist suppliers with technical advice and share technical innovation related to the category.
• Ensure suppliers understand our PnP Sustainability targets and keep track of supplier progress.
• Effective management of product and packaging information in terms of accuracy, relevance, availability and adherence by suppliers to specifications, regulations and PnP standards
• Ensure that quality standards are being maintained at all stages of the supply chain.
• Responsible for Product Quality and Food Safety Management for respective suppliers
• Effective management of product specifications in terms of accuracy, relevance, availability and adherence by vendors.
• Compile and maintain technical product catalogue.
• Maintain packaging supplier and material database. 
• Maintain an organized category through effective time management and accurate administration.
• Attend supplier meetings with buyers, providing supplier, product and facility information.
• Attend category team meetings and give technical feedback

Closing date: 10 October 2025

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• Manages resources to ensure compliance to standards, regulations and set plans to achieve targets/deadlines.

Minimum Requirements

• Matric (RPL) 
• 2-4 years relevant retail/GMD experience 
• Experience in managing a department
• Achieving results through others

Competencies

• Communication
• Controls quality & standards
• Customer orientation / Passion for customer
• Delegation
• Team orientation

Key Responsibilities

Merchandise Management:

• Ensures that hygiene, housekeeping and safe work standards are maintained
• Monitors adherence to merchandise/display standards              
• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise            
• Checks that pricing of products are correct
• Optimises stock levels
• Ensures the safe handling of and disposal of hazardous chemicals
• Identifies possible hazards in the workplace
• Manages inventory
• Monitors quality checks on merchandise
• Checks and advises on merchandising safety and hygiene standards
• Monitors competitor developments and customer profiles
• Develops and builds supplier relationships
• Analyses category performance

Finance:

• Monitors departmental gross margins and turnover and identifies deviations
• Conducts bi-annual stock take  

People Management & Development:

• Evaluates the performance of subordinates against agreed objectives and standards
• Monitors, assists and advises on staff performance
• Supervises staff
• Provides input into scheduling requirements for the department

Operations & Maintenance:

• Ensures that all equipment is maintained in effective working order
• Ensures that equipment is operated in accordance to laid down standards
• Ensures that checks are carried out on faulty equipment before calling out relevant contractor
• Ensures that back-ups are well maintained

Shrinkage & Security:

• Ensures adherence to security procedures
• Implements shrinkage control measures
• Monitors all areas of possible loss due to theft, freebagging, fraud, and/or carelessness
• Opens and locks store
• Attends to alarm call-outs
• Ensures that cash office procedures and security checks are adhered to

Administration:

• Completes all relevant administration documentation
• Monitors and checks accuracy of LAN listing wit reference to incorrect barcodes and discontinued lines
• Monitors and checks that price changes are actioned daily
• Analyses stock reports
• Confirms daily rosters and follows up on deliveries
• Utilises daily stock reports
• Monitors daily/weekly turnover

Customer Service Management:

• Provides customers with information on store layout, product availability and customer services
• Listens, confirms and responds to customer request for products and services

Closing date: 11 October 2025

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• To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage. Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to.

Minimum Requirements

• 2 - 4 years Deli Experience and Knowledge OR 1-2 years Run a department responsible for sales staff – Management experience - coaching, training, dealing with noncompliance and performance issues Sound Numeracy skills and knowledge of retail industry

Competencies

• Achieving results through others
• Plan, organize and follow up on activities and plans
• Adhere to standards and policies
• Customer Orientation Communication skills – clearly conveying message and actively listening
• Business mindedness

Key Responsibilities

• Merchandising Management:
• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise
• Executes plano guide 100% Handles product as per SOP Ensures products are produced according to recipe specifications
• Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales opportunities
• Ensures product is wrapped and packed according to standards
• Ensures sufficient product available for customer demand
• Ensures compliance to hygiene, housekeeping and safe working standards Monitors the implementation of all promotional activities – adherence to promotional calendar Back up areas are kept clean and clear
• Follows sell by dates, rotates stock as per policy/SOP on sales floor and back up area

Food Safety & Hygiene:

• Ensures that hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintainedEnsures stock rotation Monitors the adherence to food safety and health and safety standards are maintained Manages Non-Conformances via effective corrective action Implements cleaning schedules and checks effective cleaning and sanitation Recording of Food Safety Daily Checklist

Customer Services Management:

• Responds to customer requests Answers queries on out of stock - assists with replacement products, explains time to next delivery and issues which may be affecting stock availability Ensures department standards are maintained; equipment is manned and in working order

Staff Management:

• Communicates critical information to staff 1 Set targets and activities – priorities, delegates and communicates
• Handles procedural, policy and legislative non compliance Attends monthly regioal meetings - take information back to staff - responds to queries on turnover/waste
• Checks and amends Kronos scheduling Coaches staff Administration: Ensures that all equipment is properly maintained in effective working order Ensures that general maintenance standards are met
• Monitors waste, and ensures procedures are adhered to Monitors turnover and identifies opportunities for increasing turnover, and identifies and issues or barriers to achieving budgets.
• Ensures all SEL in place - print out and ensure all products have SEL current and legible by customer

Systems:

• Gap scanning out of stocks Identifies, counts, and records out of stocks & over stocks Draws excel report from SAP, communicate addresses stock concerns by completing excel sheet and sending to Demand Planning Processes IDTs via SAP Actions reduced to clear on SAP as per SOP
• Checks for electronic communications regularly during the working day
• Processes waste
• Ensure PID’s are counted correctly as per the National P & L schedule

Closing date:11 October 2025

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• To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage. Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to.

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 12 
• 2-4 years Produce Experience and Knowledge 
• OR 
• 1-2 years Run a department responsible for sales staff - Management experience - coaching, training, dealing with noncompliance and performance issue

Competencies

• Customer service
• Sense of Urgency
• Communication
• Planning and organizational ability
• Business sense

Key Responsibilities

Merchandising Management:

• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise 
• Executes plano guide 100% 
• Handles product as per SOP  
• Ensures products are produced according to recipe specifications 
• Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time 
• Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales opportunities 
• Ensures product is wrapped and packed according to standards 
• Ensures sufficient product available for customer demand 
• Ensures compliance to hygiene, housekeeping and safe working standards 
• Monitors the implementation of all promotional activities – adherence to promotional calendar 
• Back up areas are kept clean and clear 
• Follows sell by dates, rotates stock as per policy/SOP on sales floor and back up area 
• Throughout day ensures department merchandising and cleanliness standards are maintained, keeping waste to a minimum 

Food Safety & Hygiene:

• Ensures that hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintained 
• Ensures stock rotation 
• Monitors the adherence to food safety and health and safety standards are maintained 
• Manages Non-Conformances via effective corrective action 
• Implements cleaning schedules and checks effective cleaning and sanitation 
• Recording of Food Safety Daily Checklist  

Customer Services Management:

• Responds to customer requests 
• Answers queries on out of stock - assists with replacement products, explains time to next delivery and issues which may be affecting stock availability  
• Ensures department standards are maintained; equipment is manned and in working order 

Staff Management:

• Communicates critical information to staff 
• Set targets and activities – priorities, delegates and communicates 
• Handles procedural, policy and legislative noncompliance 
• Attends monthly regional meetings - take information back to staff - responds to queries on turnover/waste  
• Checks and amends Kronos scheduling 
• Coaches staff 

Administration:

• Ensures that all equipment is properly maintained in effective working order 
• Ensures that general maintenance standards are met 
• Monitors waste, and ensures procedures are adhered to 
• Monitors turnover and identifies opportunities for increasing turnover and identifies and issues or barriers to achieving budgets. 
• Ensures all SEL in place - print out and ensure all products have SEL current and legible by customer 

Systems:

• Gap scanning out of stocks 
• Identifies, counts, and records out of stocks & over stocks 
• Draws excel report from SAP, communicate addresses stock concerns by completing excel sheet and sending to Demand Planning 
• Processes IDTs via SAP  
• Actions reduced to clear on SAP as per SOP  
• Checks for electronic communications regularly during the working day  
• Processes waste  
• Ensure PID’s are counted correctly as per the National P & L schedule

Closing date: 11 October 2025

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• To ensure product packaging is compliant to the Pick n Pay packaging guidelines and meet all relevant regulations.

Minimum Requirements

• Food Technologist diploma, Packaging diploma or post graduate degree with 2-5 years experience in the relevant food related field
• Must be familiar with R146 Labelling act
• Must be familiar with the applicable regulations (DoH); Standards (SANS) and industry related guidelines
• Must be computer literate (MS Office Programmes)

Competencies

• Ability to constantly identify discrepancies, inconsistencies and mistakes.
• Assertiveness
• Influencing
• Team Orientation
• Results Orientation/Drive
• Initiative
• Be able to gather reviews and interprets information to identify trends, draw conclusions and generate appropriate responses.
• Need to be able to work sistamatic, thorough and indipendantly.
• Ability to work together in a spirit of co-operation and teamwork.
• Able to establish and maintain relationships with all stakeholders.
• Always searches for improvement in order to achieve better results through new ideas, methods and approaches.
• Positively influences the opinions, attitudes and behavior of others.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures that all Packaging timelines are met per project
• Packaging must comply to legal requirements and Pick Pay brand criteria
• Master packaging briefs to be checked and submitted to the Design team
• Packaging layouts to be checked and communicated to relevant parties
• Final packaging layouts to be approved
• Final printer proofs and Chromalins to be signed off
• Loading of artwork and printer proofs onto Sharepoint
• Building Supplier relationships & verifying suppliers’ adherence to regulations, standards and PnP requirements
• Effective management of packaging information Ensure that quality standards are being maintained at all stages of the supply chain
• Ensure that packaging remains up to date & relevant to industry and stay up to date with industry trends
• Search for improvement in order to achieve better results through new ideas, methods and approaches

Closing date: 10 October 2025