Job Vacancies at Mr Price Group

Lead the production department to ensure efficient and cost-effective delivery of marketing collateral to the end-user. To create on-brand marketing material to drive and support our strategic marketing intent.

what we are looking for

• Graphic Design or Desktop Publishing Qualification

• 3 years print-production supervisory experience

• 3 years desktop publishing experience

• Full understanding of the print production process (understanding of litho & operations on the digital print machine)

• Efficient on ADOBE Suit and MS Excel

• Experience managing projects from start to finish

a day in your life

• Production Supervision –

• Print Production

• Designing Marketing Collateral

• Store Wrap Fulfilment

• Execution of Store Marketing

go to method of application »

Administrative Assistant: Mrp Credit sales : Durban

If you are a team player, love variety in your day and a multitude of different tasks, are proficient in excel and word, have great communication skills and enjoy engaging with customers, then this is the position for you.

We offer:

• Office hours Monday to Friday from 8H00 to 17h00 NO WEEKENDS!!
• Training and development opportunities
• Centrally located in the heart of the city centre

This position involves providing administrative support on the Credit Sales campaign with specific focus, general administration duties and reporting.
 Your key responsibilities will be:

• General administration such us updating of customers information
• Efficiently contacts prospective customers to present information and explain the available new accounts (credit) products.
• Deliver prepared engagement with customers, reading from a script that describes the marketed products.
• Explain product specifics, and answer questions from customers
• Liaising and assisting customers with the application process

Skills and experience levels required:

• Grade 12
• 12 months experience in administration
• Knowledge of (credit) new account products
• Excellent communication skills in English (Written & verbal)
• Computer literate (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook)
• Persuasive
• Telephone Skills
   

go to method of application »

purpose

 Under general direction, produce financial reports, direct investment activities and plans to support the long-term financial goals of the business.

key responsibilities

1. Financial Report

• Compilation and submission of reports weekly, monthly, at half year and year-end.

• Compilation of reporting packs supporting report submissions.

1. Internal Financial Controls

• Ensure effective control affecting financial reporting

• Maintain and review all reconciliations and monitor controls

• Play key role in the improvement of processes to and initiatives to supporting financial controls including rolling out of IT systems to support financial reporting process

3. Budgeting

• Prepare budgeting templates and reports.

• Coordinate budget initiatives across the division during the budget process to ensure smooth budget process

• Maintain budget outcomes and facilitate compliance within business to ensure budgets are not exceed.

4. Technical support

• Provide support to division on commercial aspects that may impact financial reporting.

• Stay abreast of Financial reporting changes

5. People Management

• Support Financial manager in management of the finance team to ensure accurate reporting, timely payments and reconciliations, while creating a conducive work environment.

requirements

1. Education:

• Finance Degree 

1. Experience:

• 1-3 year experience in a similar role
   

1. Knowledge/ Skills:

• Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

• Understanding of DAX (Purchase Order System).

• Knowledge of Accounting Packages .

go to method of application »

We’re looking for a passionate developer to join our brand-new integration team within our technology family!

If you have experience specialising in the development of business integration systems, you might just integrate into our team with ease…

what experience we’re looking for?

• Relevant IT Diploma or Degree  

• 5+ years’ experience with & understanding of:

• • A mainstream coding language (Java or C#)

  • Integration database experience (SQL - T-SQL or PL/SQL)

  • SSIS and data migration packages

  • Data interchange formats such as XML and JSON, and technologies related to processing, transformation and validation of them (i.e. XSD and XSLT)

  • API Integration Code Development

  • Basic Linux/Unix scripting

  • integration platforms such as WSO2, Tibco, Talend, Mulesoft

  • Messaging concepts – Channels, Routing, Endpoints, Queues, Topics (ActiveMQ, Rabbit, JMS)

  • Understanding of an Enterprise Service Bus and its capabilities

  • Understanding of integration patterns – Synchronous versus Asynchronous, Publish-Subscribe

  • Understanding of RESTful and SOAP protocols

a day in your life?

• Solving technical problems and defects based on knowledge and industry best practices    

• Creating a Technical Specifications based on design requirements. Specifications should consider the reuse of existing frameworks, methodologies and procedures to ensure efficient maintenance 

• Develop, enhance and maintain technical solutions/artefacts in accordance to Architectural Design/Technical Specifications/Standards & Procedures with minimal supervision     

• Create documentation for technical aspects of integration

• Create communication to inform stakeholders (testers, project managers, support teams) of changes to integrations          

• Create support handover documentation        

• Design and write test cases for unit testing to ensure that both functional (in relation to integration) as well as non-functional(stress, integration) are catered for.          

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

• Conduct testing in scenarios where a dedicated testing team may not be available due to various factors.

• Complete and maintain version control disciplines to maintain source code

• Ensure that deployments follow the agreed release process management

• Review code from junior developers and provide guidance & mentorship

• Mentor Junior and Support team members.

• Provide estimates on design and development timelines                             

• Conduct post implementation monitoring & support

• Level 3 Support

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

go to method of application »

Purpose

Lead and manage the daily operations of a store to ensure that the overall objectives, store targets and customer service standards are met and exceeded.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Key Responsibilities

1. Stock Management:

• Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.

• Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes (stock counts, stock takes, stock loss action plans etc.) to mitigate risks (stock loss) and ensure adequate stock on hand.

• Oversee the overall maintenance of the stockroom to meet housekeeping standards.

• Authorize write offs, breakages, recalls and returns.

1. Sales Growth & Profitability:

• Analyse sales & profitability reports in store to collaborate with management on required operational action plans, increase sales performance and monitor store expenditure.

• Review and keep abreast of in-store product performance to provide feedback to support centre and enhance sales.

• Identify and propose new opportunities to increase sales and brand awareness. This may include: in-store marketing, competitor shopping, partnering/participating in local events and driving new accounts/memberships per targets (if applicable).

1. Risk Management:

• Conduct compliance checks through defined processes (e.g. admin checks, store audits, visual audits, COMO (Continuous Monitoring) reports, POS reports, health & safety standards, weekly hanger counts, security etc.) to ensure and enforce overall compliance to policies and procedures.

1. Customer Experience Management:

• Ensure and maintain the implementation of customer experience processes (through the execution of business instruction letters, markdowns, repricing, promotions, customer experience plans, visual standards, customer feedback, general housekeeping etc.) to meet customer service standards.

1. Leadership & Development:

• Lead and drive the team within a store to achieve store KPIs and operational strategy in line with company values.

• Identify & drive training, coaching and development needs with a focus on talent management and succession planning.

• Recruit, administer & manage performance in accordance with company policies and procedures.                                

Requirements

1. Education:

• Grade: 12 (NQF Level 4) or equivalent.

1. Experience:

• 3 Years’ experience in a store managerial position.

1. Knowledge/ Skills:

• Sales & service management.

• Budgeting.

• Computer literacy.

• Communication skills.

• Retail trade.

• Brand, customer & product understanding.