Job Vacancies at Superbalist.com

Purpose of this role:

This is a position within the production team. The Image controller will take responsibility for the consistent quality of our photographic studios output, which is most important for our customers and ensure accurate visual representation of all merchandise within all the Categories.

Key responsibilities / accountabilities:

• Key aspect of this position is to edit the RAW images in Capture One.
• Making all selects and ensuring that the How to Shoot guide is followed at all times.
• Cropping all images in RAW format so that the retouching team can finish the images off.
• Adjust exposure, adding grades and refining image quality in Post Production before sending to Retouching
• Colour correcting all images in RAW format.
• Assisting with retouching when needed, this is crucial for development of skills.
• Assisting photographers when help is needed.
• Providing PR agencies with catalogue images for print. (Delegate to Retouchers)
• Building a base of Freelance Retouchers to help out in busy periods.
• Taking care of all photography gear and making sure that it serviced and cleaned and locked up.
• Booking studio gear for all shoots and doing functional checks before and after shoots.
• Painting and maintaining all studio curves and walls.
• Keep an inventory of all the studio consumables and replenish when is has been depleted. (Photographers)
• Managing and maintaining all the studio Mac’s also making sure the servers is kept organised.
• Whatever is exported needs to correspond with the shooting calendar, if not the SC needs to reflect.
• A good relationship with the photographer will have to be kept.
• Work closely with the Lead Catalogue Stylist to ensure that everything is shot and ready for Post Production.
• Quarterly reviews of all Retouchers. (with you for now till team grows)
• Quality control of all executions within the Studio parameters

Qualifications and experience:

• Relevant Diploma or Degree
• 2 years + experience
• Good understanding of Photoshop & Capture One (2-3 years experience).
• Very methodical in procedures.
• Aspiring Perfectionist.
• Artistic eye for detail and uplifting images.
• Photography experience is a plus.

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The Role 

Ensuring patterns created and garments sealed are cost effective, production friendly and meet QA standards.

Reports to: Design Room Manager

Key Responsibilities 

• A skilled worker that can create Manual Paper Patterns as well as Electronic Patterns on Gerber.
• Broad knowledge of pattern making in every category is key – Ladies Dresses, evening gowns, Jackets, Coats, Pants, Skirts, Blouses etc.
• Interpret the designer’s detailed brief and construct a pattern
• Ability to accurately trace off from Overseas samples and make required adjustments to the traced pattern
• Creating and maintaining a master pattern library that enables quick referencing to speed up pattern making process
• Need to think out of the box when it comes to simplifying construction but keeping the same look – for a better price and easier for production
• Knowledge of an array of fabric when it comes to the stretch and shrinkage reactions
• Able to adjust on the pattern according to the reaction of fabric and knowledge of grading
• Work closely with the seamstress on easier construction and ensure quality is up to standard
• Need to supply all pattern measurement as per required spec provided
• Supply lengths of elastic, zips, binding, trims, gauging, belt length etc.
• Fit styles with Designer and/or Garment Technologist depending on complexity of the style and the alterations.
• Process all pattern alterations as per required timeously according to priority.
• Once style is Sealed, and pattern is graded, need to check the graded nest before bulk is cut
• Making sure the pattern is balanced and according to required spec before signing off for production.

Key Requirements 

• Diploma in Clothing Design / Patternmaking 
• Manual as well as Gerber Accunest / Lectra Computerised pattern making experience is a requirement
• Minimum 5 years Patternmaking experience
• Minimum of 5 years experience working on Geber/Lectra
• Worked in a design centre / manufacturer supplying major retail chain stores would be advantageous
• Understanding of Customer Body Measurement charts and how this affects the fit of the garment
• Basic mathematical skills (ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide using all units of measure using whole numbers, fractions and decimals, ability to apply concept of basic geometry)

Key Competencies 

• Strong technical knowledge required in pattern and garment construction
• Sewing and construction knowledge 
• Time Management skills
• Communication skills
• Work well under pressure
• Team Player
• Be able to interpret a design concept and put it on cardboard
• Detail orientated 

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Our ideal candidates have a passion for technology, they are constantly exploring, learning and improving their skills. They know where to apply what they have learned and they share their knowledge freely. We embrace fit for purpose technology, meaning we have a diverse stack. Just like our culture, we obsess about building systems that are elegant, performant, reliable and scalable. Our teams are autonomous, collaborative units that share a business and engineering vision, but have the freedom to tweak and influence how they go about their mission.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Architecting and implementing technical solutions to support defensive security
• Mentoring and coaching security within the organisation
• Deploying, operating, and monitoring SIEM, IPS/IDS, UEBA, etc.
• Responding to Security Incidents
• Expanding security auditing and monitoring capabilities
• Developing custom applications to monitor red flag situations
• Working with SRE to secure the platform, hardening servers, networks, Kubernetes
• Working with Application teams to secure code, consulting on implementations
• Hardening servers, and building security into the platform
• Developing automation so we can focus on the hard problems
• Developing glue code to extend or integrate systems

The skills we need:

• Is passionate about technology and security
• Is curious, always learning, and keeps up to date with the industry
• Is a team player, an active listener, mentor, and able to communicate well
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making
• Possesses the ability to work under pressure

Qualifications & Experience:

• A Formal Qualification/Degree in Computer Science or at least 5 years of professional experience in a similar role 
• Solid, working understanding of web technologies (HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, TLS)
• Solid, working understanding of Networking (TCP, UDP, IP, nmap, wireshark, etc.)
• Experience with WAF (Cloudflare)
• Experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or containers in general
• Experience with ElasticSearch, Kibana, Grafana
• Experience with Build Systems (Jenkins)
• Experience with defensive systems (SIEM, IDS/IPS, Canaries, Fail2Ban, etc.)

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Who’s who

This position reports to an Engineering Manager.

The high level

• Writes code & tests and pushes to production independently.
• Reviews code, providing valuable improvements for the team.
• Designs system-level code and delivers significant team-level projects.
• Creates and executes unit test plans. 
• Develops detailed technical analysis and design specifications based on functional requirements.
• Investigates and resolve defects. 
• Participates in functional and technical specification reviews. 
• Participates in creating and executing integration-level test plans. 
• Monitor services and systems within our infrastructure.
• Works effectively across multiple teams to deliver large projects.
• Mentors more junior developers.
• Continuously improve the architecture methodologies and find ways to improve code design, system performance, high scalability, and security vulnerabilities.

The skills we need

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong drive for results.
• Be comfortable working within a team.
• Good communication skills.
• Build and maintain relationships.

Your qualifications & experience

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent 8 years experience.
• 5-8 years in professional software development.
• Proven mastery of at least one OO programming language.
• In-depth knowledge of networking, databases, data structures, algorithms, cloud computing, security, code design, distributed systems and testing.
• Understands how to build solutions at scale without increasing technical debt.
• In-depth understanding of coding best practices, system scalability, security and performance tuning.
• Solid experience in relational databases.
• Solid experience in issue tracking systems.

Areas of mastery

• Python
• Web Fundamentals

Bonus points

• Flask / Django
• PHP (Laravel)
• A Javascript framework (Node.js, Vue.js)
• Elastic Search
• MySQL
• Google BigQuery
• Linux fundamentals
• Docker / Kubernetes
• Event driven architectures (PubSub/Kafka)
• Experience with e-commerce based applications

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Description:

Creation of the Departmental financial strategy and execution of the Business strategy, by delivering a product offer that exceeds customers’ expectations, and achieves sales and profit targets combined with effective inventory management.

Reports to: Planning Manager 

Key Responsibilities

Profit Maximisation

• Preparation of budgets, sales, stock and profit targets.
• Monitor performance against plan, taking appropriate action to maximise sales and profit and reduce stockholding whilst increasing stock turn.
• Identify new business opportunities to grow sales and profitability.
• Review, propose and implement mark-down activity to reduce terminal stock whilst analysing action taken on mark-downs to maximise profit.
• Communicate trading issues and forecasts with proposed actions to management and buyer.
• Implement promotional plans to optimise sales and profit.
• Measure brand/supplier performance against targets and make recommendations to grow or exit.

 Range Building and Planning

• Develop and agree plans in partnership with the buyer that achieve sales and profit targets and implement the agreed departmental strategy.
• In conjunction with the buyer, build balanced and profitable seasonal range plans.
• Evaluate market and customer information together with historical data to develop the department’s phased stock plans and pricing strategy.

Inventory/Commitment Management

• Manage and forecast the intake of stock in line with agreed OTB stock levels.
• Plan and implement replenishment volumes for continuity product.
• Monitor and manage the availability of stock.
• Promote stock efficiency through in season trading whilst managing forward covers.
• Collaborate with Supply chain to ensure planned launch and replenishment dates are met.
• Manage terminal stock.
• Manage volume buys and optimal size ratio’s.

Key Requirements

• Matric (must include Mathematics) 
• Bachelor’s degree/diploma with at least 2 quantitative subjects 
• Minimum 6 years planning experience required with preferably at least 2 years as a senior planner 
• A high degree of numeracy and an analytical, detailed and strategic approach to work.
• Advanced computer literacy in excel and planning system  

Key Competencies

• Strong business acumen and merchant thinking.
• Good organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven decision-making ability