Job Vacancies at Managed People Solutions

Job Description

• Are you eager to learn, energetic, and ready to gain real workplace experience?  Do you reside in or near Richards Bay KwaZulu Natal? Look no further!
• We’re looking for young, motivated Junior Merchandisers to join our team as part of a structured internship program. This is your chance to step into the working world, build skills, and grow your career in merchandising!
• About the Programme: We are offering a dynamic 12 Months/18 Months Internship Programme designed to equip unemployed youth with essential skills and hands-on experience. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable industry knowledge, improve your employability, and work alongside seasoned professionals.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Determine stock to be merchandised
• Draw stock requirements
• Check vintage, product quality on the shelf, stock rotation, and price tags
• Execute merchandising activities as per cycle brief
• Provide feedback on customer complaints, queries, and requests
• Communicate and maintain knowledge of products and promotions
• Accurately record merchandising activities
• Execute calls as per call cycle

What We’re Looking For

• Aged 18–28 years
• NCV Level 4 or N6 TVET Certificate
• Looking to complete a workplace experience internship
• No work experience needed – we’ll teach you!
• Willing to learn, grow, and work in a professional environment

Duration

• N6 TVET Internship: 18 months
• NCV Level 4 Internship: 12 months

Stipend

• R3,500 per month

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Job Description

• Meridian Services is seeking a National Fleet Manager based in Cape Town. The role is responsible for the end-to-end management, optimisation, and governance of all national fleet and operational assets, ensuring cost efficiency, compliance, and reliable support of distribution operations.
• The position requires strong leadership to build capability and accountability within regional teams, while ensuring fleet availability and operational readiness to support consistent delivery performance.

Responsibility includes:

• Drives national cost-to-serve optimisation through disciplined management of fleet, assets, procurement, and lifecycle efficiency, directly improving margins.
• Enables consistent, reliable delivery performance by ensuring fleet availability and operational readiness across all regions.
• Establishes a controlled, standardised, and high-performing national asset and fleet management system.
• Builds capability, discipline, and accountability across regional transport and asset management teams.
• Designs and evolves the national asset strategy (fleet, trade assets, IT) aligned to business growth, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Daily delivery schedules are accurate, realistic, and aligned to operational capacity.
• Deliveries are consistently completed within planned timeframes.
• Vehicles and drivers are utilised effectively, minimising delays and unnecessary costs.
• Consistent processes, policies, and controls are implemented across all regions.
• All incidents are managed with employee safety as the first priority, ensuring individuals are supported, unharmed where possible, and properly cared for post-incident.
• Full adherence to legal, insurance, safety, and operational requirements.
• Fleet and asset decisions are driven by accurate data, reporting, and insights.
• Assets are optimally acquired, utilised, redeployed, and disposed of to maximise value.
• Manage and optimise total fleet costs including fuel, maintenance, leasing, and repairs; identify and implement cost-saving initiatives.
• Manage procurement process including quotes, negotiation, purchasing, and delivery, ensuring alignment to fleet financing models (ISA’s) and fair usage policies.
• Oversee full asset lifecycle including acquisition, utilisation, redeployment, and disposal; manage sale of assets including listings, pricing, staff allocation, and inter-BU transfers.
• Ensure fleet availability and readiness supports consistent OTIF delivery performance across all regions.
• Ensure minimal disruption to operations through proactive fleet planning, maintenance, and issue resolution.
• Manage relationships with key suppliers and service providers to ensure performance, cost efficiency, and service delivery.
• Maintain and manage asset registers, tagging, audits, counts, and inspections; oversee allocation and recovery of assets for new joiners and exiting employees.
• Manage servicing schedules, fuel usage, kilometre tracking, FML adjustments, fair usage enforcement, and recovery of excess usage.
• Centralise and manage all repairs and maintenance through Wesbank Managed Maintenance, ensuring cost control and service quality.
• Manage motor licensing, fines), telematics, branding, and vehicle inspection processes to ensure full compliance.
• Track, audit, and redeploy trade assets (e.g. fridges) to ensure optimal utilisation and control.
• Track allocation, recovery, and repair of IT equipment in collaboration with Merchant West, including oversight of upgrade cycles.
• Develop and implement SOPs, policies, and reporting frameworks to standardise fleet and asset management nationally.
• Oversee the full insurance function including claims management, policy alignment, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Establish and lead national protocols for managing transport-related incidents (e.g. hijackings, accidents), ensuring immediate employee safety, structured response, escalation to line management and HR, and post-incident support including medical, psychological, and operational recovery.
• Utilise fleet systems, telematics, and asset tracking tools to monitor performance, generate reports, and drive insights.
• Provide data-driven insights on fleet performance, cost, utilisation, and optimisation opportunities.
• Manages full asset base (vehicles, trade assets, IT) including lifecycle, utilisation, and control.
• Strong control over cost drivers including procurement, financing models (ISA’s), maintenance, and insurance.
• Negotiates, manages suppliers, and ensures cost-effective, high-quality service delivery.
• Ensures full control of asset registers, audits, policies, and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to lead and manage high-risk incidents (e.g. hijackings, accidents), ensuring structured response, employee safety, and business continuity.
• Uses telematics, asset systems, and reporting tools to drive insights and decision-making.
• Takes full accountabilities for all national assets, costs, and performance outcomes. Remains calm, decisive, and structured when managing high-risk and emotionally charged situations.
• Makes decisions with strong cost, ROI, and value impact awareness.
• Uses data, trends, and insights to optimise asset and fleet performance.
• Maintains high accuracy across asset registers, compliance, and reporting.
• Effectively manages suppliers and internal stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Enforces policies, controls, and standards consistently across the business.
• Actively identifies and drives optimisation opportunities across the asset base.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Diploma / Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field
• 3–5+ years in fleet, asset, or operations management, including national or multi-region exposure.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Strong experience across fleet management systems, telematics, asset registers, procurement processes, maintenance planning, and vendor management; ability to use data, systems, and insights to optimise asset utilisation, cost, compliance, and operational performance.

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Job Description

• Meridian Wine Distribution is seeking a Team Leader | Shift Supervisor based in Gauteng to lead and supervise a team of Material Handlers, ensuring effective task delegation and continuous monitoring of the picking process to meet operational targets.
• The role requires hands-on involvement on the warehouse floor, supporting daily operations, maintaining productivity and accuracy standards, and leading by example to drive team performance and adherence to company procedures.

Responsibility includes:

• Lead a team of warehouse staff and warehouse workload - ensuring that that work is being performed according to picking plan and SOP.
• Effectively delegate work to team with clearing defined deadlines in order to manage workflow within the warehouse.

Monitor and allocate outstanding orders including:

• Collections
• Courier orders
• Local outstanding deliveries.
• Makro orders
• Assist Material handlers as needed in finding stock and setting a good example.
• Monitor picking for team as per picking plan.
• Ensure effective communication of established procedures and regulations within the warehouse according to SOP and Health and Safety act.
• Communicate with Orders team on unavailable vintages and vintage changes, action changes as required.
• Ensure checking takes places for all orders.
• Correct any discrepancies on orders after checking has taken place.
• Print out warehouse shipment once order is complete for checking purposes.
• Notify Warehouse Supervisor when load is ready for invoices and delivery notes to be printed.
• Assist Warehouse Supervisor in ensuring that warehouse staff adhere to housekeeping regulations within the warehouse during picking to avoid breakages and damages. Monitoring the cleanliness of the warehouse and isles always kept clear.
• Assist in monitoring your team that they comply with the Occupations Health and Safety Act within the warehouse.
• Take full responsibility for the continuous development of leadership capability by growing leadership skills and knowledge, as well as participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organisations etc.
• This also includes participating in all leadership focused training and development initiatives presented by the company.
• Take full responsibility for performance management of all direct reports, managing their performance in relation to quality standards and agreed benchmarks and objectives.
• This entails motivating, inspiring and supporting employees to drive high morale within team.

Compliance with reporting requirements across all aspects of sound people management:

• Recruitment
• Development
• Remuneration and Rewards
• Performance Management
• Career path planning
• On-the-job training, coaching & mentoring
• IR issues
• Ensure team adherence to relevant policies and procedures.
• Ensure appropriate levels of management and accountability.
• Motivate, delegate and empower direct reports appropriately, enabling them to take responsibility and display creativity and initiative.
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Plan and prioritize, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
• Demonstrate ability to anticipate and manage change effectively.
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with the ability to understand and respond to organisational needs.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12
• 5 years Warehouse Experience within the FMCG environment

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Job Description

• Are you passionate about the liquor industry and looking for an exciting sales role? CLM Brands is currently seeking a result-driven, energetic, and dedicated Outbound Telesales Consultant in the Gauteng region.

Responsibilities Include:

• Recording and promptly acting upon customers’ complaints, queries and requests and feedback accordingly as per Communication SOP and contact grid.
• Actively building relationships with customers by identifying new growth opportunities in the relevant liquor category and adding personal touches.
• Identify warm opportunities and reactivate dormant accounts.
• Gather requirements by asking questions to understand customer problems and position products as solutions.
• Identify training needs of the customer and feedback to line manager and customer.
• Effectively execute outbound telesales procedures in accordance with the SOP on outbound telesales procedures. Order taking and processing on NAV.
• Action specified tasks from cycle brief or operational requirements from Line manager.
• The managing of the stock allocation as per Line manager requirements and stock allocation report.
• New product introduction, vintage change and upliftment procedure to be carried out as per SOP.
• The cycle brief execution feedback as per standard.
• Understand your personal sales target by customer and brand and deliver the result.
• Understand how personal sales commission / incentive are calculated.
• Monitor performance of customer and recommend quantities.
• Grow and maintain the customer base in order to achieve the sales target.
• Develop a plan to close the sales gap by analysing a weekly and monthly Sales Report and submit this report as per SOP.
• Log all calls and capturing interaction with customers as per SOP and RSM/FSM requirements.
• Collect customer information as per “Know Your Customer” Brief.
• Other operational report / feedback as per RSM/FSM’s requirements.
• Effectively plan and execute outbound telesales call plan.
• Assisting new customers in opening new accounts as per SOP on new accounts.
• Liaise with client regarding late deliveries.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Grade 12.
• Diploma (NQF 6) relating to Sales, Marketing, Hospitality management or Food and Beverage management.
• 2-3 years’ sales and telesales experience in a related FMCG environment.
• Basic computer literacy and experience with Repforce.
• Liquor Industry and Spirit knowledge is preferred.