The Shoprite Group of Companies, comprising several iconic brands, is the largest retailer in Africa. It started out as a group of eight grocery stores in 1979, and has grown into a technologically-advanced, continent-wide business selling items from food, liquor and medicine, to concert tickets and furniture. Today the Group is at the forefront of retail...
About the role
- We're looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of enterprise-scale data platforms that enable data-driven decision-making across the Group.
- This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, overseeing advanced data engineering solutions, guiding engineering teams, and helping shape the future data strategy within a modern cloud and big data environment.
- As a senior technical leader, you will drive architecture decisions, establish engineering best practices, mentor team members, and ensure the delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions.
What you'll do
Data Engineering & Architecture
- Design, build, and optimise complex data engineering solutions and platforms.
- Define and maintain data architecture standards and technical roadmaps.
- Develop scalable data pipelines and big data solutions using modern cloud technologies.
- Ensure technical documentation remains current, accurate, and aligned with architectural standards.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement across the data engineering landscape.
Technical Leadership
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship across data engineering teams.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, development patterns, and best practices.
- Lead DevSecOps adoption and ensure quality engineering practices are consistently applied.
- Share knowledge through communities of practice, technical presentations, and mentoring initiatives.
- Stay current with emerging technologies, tools, and industry trends.
Agile Delivery & Stakeholder Engagement
- Facilitate planning, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and team alignment activities.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Partner with Business Analysts, product owners, architects, and stakeholders to drive successful outcomes.
- Provide project, delivery, and incident updates to leadership and key stakeholders.
- Maintain alignment between delivery plans and strategic objectives.
Team Development
- Support performance management, development planning, and capability growth within the team.
- Identify skills gaps and contribute to learning and development initiatives.
- Promote collaboration, engagement, and a high-performance engineering culture.
- Facilitate innovation initiatives, hackathons, and knowledge-sharing activities.
What you bring
Qualifications
- Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (NQF 6 or higher).
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline would be advantageous.
- Equivalent practical experience will be considered where formal qualifications are not held.
Experience
- 5+ years' experience in Data Engineering, Software Development, BI, or a related data discipline.
- Demonstrated experience leading or mentoring Data Engineering teams.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data solutions.
- Experience within retail, FMCG, or similarly complex environments is advantageous.
Technical Skills
- Advanced Python and PySpark development.
- Strong SQL skills, particularly in large-scale data environments.
- Big Data technologies including Hadoop and Spark.
AWS services such as:
- EMR
- S3
- Athena
- RDS
- Lambda
- API Gateway
- Experience with Azure, GCP, and Snowflake.
- Data warehouse and Business Intelligence concepts.
- Solution architecture and technical design.
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- DevOps and Infrastructure Management practices.
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About the role
- The purpose of a People Accountant is to provide financial expertise and support to the People function by managing employee-related financial processes, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and Total Cost of Employment (TCE) analysis.
- The role ensures accurate financial information, alignment of financial policies and processes, compliance with governance requirements, and informed decision-making through collaboration with People, Finance, and other stakeholders.
What you'll do
Employee Centric Delivery
- Support and execute the finance function for the People function and ensuring that finance activities are executed in line with policies and procedures.
- Partner with the People Partners and Business Finance Managers.
- Managing the accurate and timeous delivery of management report inputs. Preparing daily, weekly, and monthly financial transactional information as required and ensuring compliant data storage and accessibility for future reference: reporting, customer request, audit etc.
- Assisting and coordinating divisional People and HO Departmental Budgets.
- Supporting the management of the People budget for the Group.
- Support the ensuring of effective cost controls and monitoring mechanisms.
- Providing creditor, reconciliation, and payment related activities for the People function.
- Actively sharing insights and information with the People HO team and acting as a financial knowledge resource for local people teams.
- Preparation and provision of cost of employment reports for various functional areas within the business.[WE1.1][AA1.2]
- Support the management of employee related liabilities i.e., leave, workman compensation and accruals (financial transaction entries) according to the correct companies and profit centres.
- Supporting the People function with various administrative inputs and costing analysis to build People optimisation trend and forecasting models.
Financial, Reporting & BI
- Managing People Finance costs whilst ensuring service delivery to the business.
- The collection and use of People Finance data and business intelligence to effectively deliver People Finance services.
- Prepare regular reports and presentations for senior management
- Ensures the accuracy of financial data and reports
- Analysing and tracking the total cost of employment for the entire business.
- Develop and maintain financial models and tools to support the analysis of TCE
- Preparation of Income Statements
- Preparation of Budgets for the People Team.
- Preparation of Month-end Journals.
Governance & Compliance
- Ensuring that People Finance complies with relevant labour relations frameworks and legislation.
- Ensuring compliance to organisational and legislative governance frameworks and standards.
- Ensuring the required governance and alignment of People Finance solutions and services within the Shoprite Group.
- Identification and mitigation of People Finance risks.
- Stay up to date with changes in accounting standards and regulations related to employee-related costs.
Future-Fit
- Working closely with the audit function to ensure that all risks and related areas of reconciliations are identified for audit purposes - at an in-store, Divisional and Head Office level and communicating with, participating in and supporting all audit activities and closing of findings etc.
- Providing support during the implementation and streamlining of finance systems and procedures through automation, control implementation and monitoring.
- Ensuring integration and effective flow of work with other solution areas and business.
- Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in People Finance processes.
- Identification of relevant People Finance technology requirements where required.
What you bring
- Degree in Accounting or equivalent - (essential).
- +5 years in an Accounting or equivalent role, providing HR Finance support according to policies, procedures, and guidelines - (essential).
- Experience and proficient understanding of Standard Accounting Practices – (essential).
- Experience within the FMCG, retail sector or similar - (preferred).
- Exposure to statutory requirements, applying and monitoring relevant laws, regulations, and best practices as they relate to HR Finance. Knowledge of HR policies, procedures, legislation, and regulations - (preferred).
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel - intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel - (essential).
- Exposure to SAP - (preferred).
- Exposure to BPC – (advantageous).
Closing Date
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About the role
- Join Shoprite as an Environmental Sustainability Intern based in Brackenfell, Cape Town.
- This contract role requires a strong foundation in Environmental Management, Data Analytics, or related fields, proficiency in MS Office, and familiarity with digital tools like Power BI and SharePoint.
- Reporting to the Senior Sustainability Specialist, you will collect and analyse data, conduct environmental research, maintain project trackers, and assist with site assessments to drive impactful sustainability initiatives. This opportunity offers practical exposure to strategic and operational sustainability practices within a dynamic retail environment committed to ethical and environmentally responsible business operations.
- A valid driver's licence and the ability to travel to operational sites are essential. Apply strong analytical, communication, and project coordination skills to contribute to measurable environmental improvements and sustainability reporting.
What you'll do
- Support environmental sustainability projects by collecting, organising, and analysing data from various sources including stores and suppliers.
- Conduct research on environmental topics, legislation, and sustainability best practices to inform project development.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date project trackers, action logs, and evidence files to ensure efficient project management.
- Assist with site visits and operational assessments, including data collection, observations, and reporting.
- Prepare concise research summaries, reports, and presentations for internal stakeholders to support informed decision-making.
- Coordinate information requests and follow up with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely completion of actions.
- Support invoice, purchase order, and project spend tracking related to sustainability initiatives as needed.
- Use digital tools such as Power BI and SharePoint responsibly, verifying data accuracy before sharing outputs.
- Participate in learning and development activities to enhance sustainability knowledge and project management skills.
- Demonstrate strong communication and organisational skills to contribute effectively to the sustainability team's objectives.
What you bring
- Bachelor's degree or Diploma in Environmental Management, Environmental Science, Sustainability, Waste Management, Natural Resource Management, Geography, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field (essential).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (essential).
- Experience with data analysis, demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with digital tools such as Power BI, Power Query, SharePoint, or sustainability reporting platforms (advantageous).
- Exposure to environmental sustainability practices, including waste management, recycling, climate change, biodiversity, or responsible sourcing, gained through coursework, research, volunteering, or prior work experience (advantageous).
- Valid driver's licence and willingness to travel to operational sites as required (essential).
- Excellent communication, presentation, and report-writing skills with the ability to clearly convey data and findings to various stakeholders.
- Organised and detail-oriented with a structured approach to planning, tracking, and delivering project activities.
- Proactive, curious, and eager to develop sustainability and project management skills through continuous learning.
- Ability to collaborate effectively within a team, demonstrating professionalism, ethical conduct, and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
Closing Date
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About the role
- The main purpose of the position is to validate food safety and quality across the supply chain. This includes investigations of incidents of non confrmance and assisting with compliance updates and audits.
What you'll do
- Validation of food safety and quality data across Supply Chain.
- Investigation of Supply Chain incidents and non-conformances.
- Consolidate and maintain food safety reports, including trends analysis, findings and corrective actions.
- Conduct root cause analysis and ensure implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
- Manage, assist and maintain compliance updates on auditsand programs.
- Administration of all mock recalls, recalls and withdrawals.
- Assist with the administration procedures and documentation required for continuous improvement initiatives and projects.
- Assist with additional ad hoc queries and requests.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Food Technology or Food science.
Closing Date
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About the role
- The purpose of the Business Analyst III role is to strategize and facilitate effective and competitive business processes by eliciting, analysing, validating, and documenting business, organisational and operational requirements, providing cost-benefit analysis, suitable alternatives and recommendations.
- The role conducts market analyses, analysing both product lines and the overall profitability of the business while developing and monitoring data quality metrics to ensure business data and reporting needs are met.
- The role also provides technical leadership on the improvement of quality, standards and processes by ensuring that efficient and cost-effective business solutions and processes are in place to address current to long-term business needs and requirements. Business decisions in this space will generally come to fruition within 1 to 3 years.
- This role plays an instrumental part across business and delivery teams to ensure that solutions are delivered according to business requirements while considering cost, user and organisational benefit.
- The projects in this role are generally cross-domain, high-profile and complex in nature, requiring expert business, process and technology perspectives and recommendations.
What you'll do
Information Seeking & Analysis
- Perform high-level analysis activities during the Ideation and Discovery phase of projects, identifying impacts, dependencies and considerations.
- Provide input into the creation of business cases aligned to organisational strategies, including feasibility and business benefits.
- Perform detailed analysis activities within the CE cycle, assisting to unpack features, identify detailed requirements and collaborate on solution design.
- Understand, analyse and identify opportunities for improvement within the current business environment and across shared business processes and systems.
- Contribute to business strategy discussions and remain informed of current trends and developments within the retail industry.
- Operate confidently across multiple domains, integrated systems and operational processes while making relevant connections across business areas.
- Consider enterprise-wide solutions and impacts when evaluating requirements and opportunities.
- Analyse customer needs and multiple domain impacts through user journeys, research and engagement with operational areas.
- Research and identify opportunities to improve the business offering and provide additional value to customers through business solutions.
- Assess and document the business implications of user requirements on business processes.
- Assess risks, costs and potential benefits of alternative business process designs.
- Define business rules and guide their implementation in the development of application systems.
- Drive and shape solution scope and ensure alignment and understanding with business users.
- Assess technical solutions and business processes against business requirements.
- Drive the removal of change management barriers impacting User Acceptance Testing.
- Produce fit-for-purpose business requirements and process documentation using appropriate tools and agreed standards.
- Liaise across teams to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues.
Leadership, Facilitation & Influencing
- Take ownership of knowledge within a specific area and identify opportunities for improvement within the team.
- Work closely with Architects, Designers and Business Stakeholders to evaluate proposed solutions.
- Advise on alternatives presented by technical teams and provide recommendations regarding business design.
- Lead others in advancing organisational objectives.
- Influence stakeholders across business and technology teams to support solutions that best serve the business.
- Persuade stakeholders to consider alternative approaches and practices where appropriate.
- Coach and mentor Junior and Intermediate Business Analysts on analysis processes and delivery practices.
Communication, Building & Maintaining Relationships
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with business users and IT stakeholders by ensuring solutions are delivered as promised and by providing support and recommendations.
- Liaise with business stakeholders, IT disciplines and delivery teams.
- Collaborate across disciplines and benchmark value-adding solutions.
- Act as a thinking partner and ambassador for the business.
- Manage vendor relationships where projects involve third-party providers.
Organising, Multitasking & Time Management
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to organisational objectives and high-quality, on-time delivery.
- Take responsibility for business analysis timelines within project plans.
- Plan and organise work effectively and deliver on commitments.
- Focus efforts on achieving outcomes aligned to organisational objectives.
Knowledge & Application
- Apply appropriate techniques to elicit and analyse business problems and translate them into business needs.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert within Communities of Practice, sharing knowledge and learning from others.
- Contribute to improving ways of working within the Business Analysis community, with a focus on alignment, quality, standards and outputs.
- Create a sense of team spirit through collaboration, communication and cooperation.
- Demonstrate self-awareness regarding strengths, development areas and working style.
- Maintain detailed and comprehensive knowledge within own area of expertise and remain informed of industry developments and emerging practices.
- Continuously develop technical skills and knowledge through ongoing professional development.
What you bring
What You'll Bring
Qualifications
- Degree with 5 to 8 years related experience.
- Advanced Business Analysis certification such as CBAP, AAC or similar.
- Experience
- In-depth experience in one or more of the following SAP modules:
- Plant Maintenance (PM)
- Sales and Distribution (SD)
- Materials Management (MM)
- Financial Accounting (FI)
Business & Industry Knowledge
- Business understanding of the broader Retail and Finance industries.
- Business Process Management experience.
- Experience working across all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Good business and IT acumen.
Communication & Relationship Management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent relationship management and collaboration skills.
- Customer-focused approach to stakeholder engagement and solution delivery.
Leadership & Team Development
- Willingness to coach and mentor junior team members.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams.
- Contributes positively to team development and knowledge sharing.
Planning & Delivery
- Good planning and time management skills.
- Results-driven approach to delivery and execution.
- Self-starter with a can-do attitude.
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Strong analytical thinking capabilities.
- Sound decision-making skills.
- Ability to assess business needs, risks, costs and benefits to recommend appropriate solutions.
- Nice to Have
- ARIS experience.
- Jira experience.
Closing Date
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About the role
- The Store implementation Systems Manager role is focused on coordinating the implementation, rollout and adoption of store-facing technology systems across retail operations.
- This includes aligning store readiness, system configuration, user training, stakeholder communication and post-go-live support to ensure that new or enhanced store systems are embedded effectively and support operational continuity.
What you'll do
System support and service management
- Monitor service requests, incidents and escalations to ensure system-related issues are tracked, prioritised and resolved timeously.
- Act as an escalation point for business-critical system matters and coordinate appropriate technical or operational responses.
- Work with service delivery, operations and vendor teams to support service reliability, issue resolution and post-implementation stabilisation.
People Leadership
- Provide day-to-day guidance, coordination and direction to team members, business users and support partners to ensure system activities are delivered effectively.
- Monitor delivery quality, provide practical coaching and support knowledge sharing to strengthen system capability and consistent ways of working.
- Coordinate priorities, remove delivery blockers and escalate matters that impact service delivery, adoption or operational continuity.
Governance, risk and continuous improvement
- Ensure system delivery, configuration, documentation and support activities comply with approved Technology standards, governance requirements and business controls.
- Identify risks, support trends, adoption issues and operational dependencies, escalating material matters with practical mitigation actions.
- Use performance information and stakeholder feedback to recommend improvements to processes, configuration, support practices and user experience.
Business readiness and adoption
- Coordinate business readiness, communication and training activities to enable correct and consistent system usage.
- Monitor user adoption, identify capability gaps and provide practical guidance to improve system use and effectiveness.
- Technology systems implementation and delivery
- Manage the implementation, enhancement and rollout of technology systems across assigned business or functional areas.
- Coordinate implementation plans, timelines, dependencies, testing, readiness activities and go-live requirements.
- Coordinate Technology teams, business stakeholders and service providers to resolve delivery dependencies and ensure implementation requirements are met.
What you bring
- A qualification in Information Systems, Information Technology, Business Management, Project Management or a related field – (essential)
- +5 years’ experience in technology systems implementation, support, service delivery or systems management – (essential)
- 3–5 years’ experience managing technology projects, enhancements, rollouts or system changes, including leadership, coordination or supervisory accountability within a technology systems, implementation or service delivery environment – (essential)
- Experience coordinating user readiness, training, adoption support, vendors and cross-functional stakeholders – (essential)
- Knowledge of technology systems, applications, service management, IT governance, risk controls, change management and incident management – (essential)
Closing Date
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About the role
- Shoprite Africa Marketing is looking to appoint a Campaign Manager who will be responsible for the planning, coordination, execution, and reporting of marketing campaigns across assigned African markets.
- The role serves as the key link between country stakeholders, central marketing teams, agencies, suppliers, and operational partners to ensure the successful end-to-end delivery of campaigns in line with business objectives, commercial priorities, and brand standards.
- In addition to managing country-specific campaigns, the role plays an important coordination function across multiple markets, ensuring campaign processes, timelines, assets, reporting, and stakeholder communication are effectively managed and aligned.
- The Campaign Manager is accountable for driving operational excellence, maintaining campaign governance, and delivering campaigns that support growth, customer engagement, and brand consistency across the Africa portfolio.
What you'll do
Campaign Planning & Execution
- Manage the end-to-end delivery of marketing campaigns across assigned African markets, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives, trade plans, and marketing strategies.
- Coordinate campaign development, implementation, and execution across multiple channels and touchpoints.
- Ensure campaigns are delivered on time, within budget, and according to agreed quality standards.
- Facilitate effective communication and workflow between country teams, agencies, suppliers, operations teams, and internal stakeholders.
Coordination & Campaign Governance
- Act as a central coordination point for campaign activity across multiple African countries.
- Maintain campaign timelines, critical paths, and status reporting to ensure visibility and accountability across stakeholders.
- Coordinate asset development, approvals, translations, localization requirements, and campaign deployment across markets.
- Ensure campaign processes, templates, and governance standards are consistently applied across the Africa portfolio.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and potential delivery challenges, proactively implementing solutions to maintain campaign momentum.
Stakeholder & Relationship Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with country teams, agency partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
- Support country General Managers, Operations teams, Buying teams, and Marketing stakeholders in the successful execution of campaigns.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure campaigns are locally relevant while remaining aligned to broader brand and business objectives.
Campaign Reporting & Performance
- Track campaign performance and delivery against agreed objectives and KPIs.
- Coordinate post-campaign reporting and insights for stakeholders, suppliers, and leadership teams.
- Consolidate campaign results and key learnings to inform future marketing activity and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide recommendations to enhance campaign effectiveness, operational efficiencies, and customer engagement.
Financial & Administrative Management
- Manage campaign-related budgets, purchase orders, invoicing, and supplier administration accurately and timeously.
- Ensure financial processes and controls are adhered to across all campaigns and markets.
- Support reporting on campaign expenditure and budget performance where required.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve campaign planning, coordination, reporting, and execution processes.
- Drive best practice sharing across countries and contribute to the ongoing development of campaign management capabilities within the Africa Marketing team.
- Stay informed of market trends, customer insights, and emerging marketing opportunities relevant to African markets.
Key Success Measures
- On-time campaign delivery across all assigned markets.
- Strong stakeholder satisfaction and engagement.
- Effective coordination of multi-market campaigns.
- Consistent application of campaign governance and brand standards.
- Accurate reporting and budget management.
- Delivery of commercially impactful campaigns that support customer growth and brand objectives.
What you bring
- BCom (Marketing) qualification or similar.
- + 2years’ experience in a campaign management role (e.g., advertising/media) with a track record of strong campaign management support and related activities.
- A fast and enthusiastic learner with a passion for making things happen!
- Excellent team-working – building a positive team
- Marketing principles and practices.
- Presentation skills - creative and analytical skills.
- Commercial and business understanding of the broader retail industry.
Closing Date
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About the role
- People Internship Programme is a fixed-term opportunity designed to provide practical exposure to various People functions within a retail environment.
- The programme offers hands-on experience, mentorship, and support, enabling interns to develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to build a successful career in Human Resources while gaining valuable insight into how people practices support business operations.
- "Our Group and all its operating companies are committed to creating, embracing, and preserving a diverse workplace that values the unique talents, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities that enrich our organisation. A place where everyone matters and feels included."
What you'll do
- Gain exposure to various People functions within a retail environment. Assist with recruitment, selection, and onboarding activities. Support employee relations processes and HR initiatives.
- Maintain accurate employee records and HR administration. Assist with training, learning, and development activities. Support employee engagement and wellbeing initiatives.
- Gaining a better understanding and offering HR support to managers and employees across the business. Assist with workforce planning and organisational projects.
- Gaining knowledge of compliance with company policies, procedures, and labour legislation. Participate in projects and activities that contribute to business and people objectives.
- Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across the business. Gain exposure into structured training, coaching, and mentorship sessions to support your development.
- Through this programme, you will gain valuable hands-on experience, practical HR knowledge, and the support needed to build a successful career in People Management and Resources.
What you bring
- A passion for people and a genuine interest in building a career in Human Resources. A relevant HR, Industrial Psychology, Business Management, or related qualification (completed or currently studying, where applicable).
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. A willingness to learn and gain exposure to different HR disciplines.
- Good planning, organisational, and administrative skills. Attention to detail and a high level of accuracy. Professionalism, integrity, and the ability to maintain confidentiality.
- A customer-focused mindset with a proactive approach to problem-solving. The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team. Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. A positive attitude, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous learning.
- Most importantly, you are eager to learn, embrace new challenges, and develop the skills required to thrive in a fast-paced retail environment.
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