Job Vacancies at Plennegy Group

Description

• Provides excellent, professional customer service at all times, ensuring a positive shopping experience.
• Assists customers with purchases by advising or sourcing relevant advice from horticultural personnel.
• Loads customers trolleys with their purchase and guides them to the till points and assist the cashier with capturing the correct code/price of products.
• After payment, carefully loads purchases into the customers vehicle, ensuring that all trolleys are returned to the trolley areas as per seasonal operational requirements.
• Responsible for maintenance of a demarcated area of the Nursery in a clean and tidy condition at all times
• Maintains all plants in the demarcated area in a clean, healthy, and saleable condition.
• Brings all poor-quality plants to the attention of the Nursery Sales Supervisor / Horticulturist.
• Assists with the correct labelling of plants and packs them in their correct sales areas.
• Prepares areas for new stock.
• Ensures that sales areas are always kept neat and tidy and plants are effectively displayed.
• Assists with annual stock take.

Requirements

• A National Senior Certificate (NQF level 4) (essential)
• A Diploma in Horticulture (essential)
• Grade 12 (essential)
• Nursery Assistant experience for at least 1 Year

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Picks products and makes up orders as per customer order and transfers them to the holding area for checking.
• Ensures that correct seed reference numbers are picked and report all incorrect reference numbers to the Stock Controller.
• Advises Stock Controller if certain items are out of stock and awaits further instructions.
• Assists fellow workers with execution of tasks whenever own responsibilities have been executed and completed.
• Ensures that work area/s are neat, tidy, organised and clean at all times.
• Assists with and adheres to security measures to ensure the safety of products, assets and facility
• Assists with the bi-annual as well as ad hoc stock counts/checks as per Stock Controller instruction.

Requirements

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Grade 12 Senior Certificate

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RESPONSIBILITIES

MANAGEMENT

• Manage and control working capital within limits and time cycles.
• Exert good communication, negotiation and technical skills
• Ensure department’s compliance with policies and procedures
• Ensure department profits, return on assets, costs and margins meet budget
• Ensure that required daily reports are sent through to Head office correctly and timeously.
• Action the monthly matrix report and send through to Head office 
• Ensure physical stock placement at required branches.

SALES

• Ensure all sales marketing programs are executed
• Lead conversion
• Meet budgeted unit and sales target
• Execute and manage enquires and leads
• Develop and maintain additional external channels
• Manage sales cycle to delivery and aftersales or lost sales analysis

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION

• Attend to customer enquiries timeously and accurately
• Ensure accurate trade and retail pricing
• Ensure all equipment are completely saleable.

HOUSEKEEPING AND SAFETY

• Ensure that department is neat, tidy and includes marketing displays.
• Ensure that equipment is well displayed
• Ensure that communications are done timeously
• Ensure compliance with all laws and regulations including OHS and franchise requirements.

REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications:

• Min: 3-year experience in Agricultural Sales
• Ideal: Bachelors in Marketing/Sales

Experience:

• 3-year experience in Agricultural Sales 

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Above average command of English and Afrikaans
• Strong business acumen
• Strong people skills
• Strong interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
• Proven sales experience
• Well versed in the Agricultural machinery market
• Ability to manage reconditioning costs
• Well versed with different media options and developments