Jobs at Mr Price Group

Job Description

• An Assistant Manager is accountable for relieving the Store Manager in their absence and assists in maintaining company standards of housekeeping, merchandising, shrinkage control, discipline, and security.

Responsibilities

• Banking of money 
• Relieve store manager 
• Maintain company standards of housekeeping, merchandising, shrinkage control, discipline, and security 
• Ensure compliance of all company procedures 
• Assist store manager in management of staff
• Ensure front end controls are in place 
• Oversee the cash office 
• Minimize stock loss Customer Service 
• Introduce sales initiatives to reach store targets

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12 (Mathematics an advantage) or NQF Level 4 
• Previous experience managing people 
• Previous experience managing a department 
• Previous clothing retail experience would be highly advantageous 
• Strong communication skills 
• Strong admin skills 
• Decision maker
• Organizational skills 
• Planning 
• Maintain productivity
• Leadership 
• Enthusiastic
• Ethical and great integrity 
• Honesty 
• Proactive 
• Self-motivated

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Job Description

• We’re looking for a strong, vibrant and self- disciplined Store Manager to 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.

Responsibilities
A day in your life

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.

Sales Growth & Profitability:

• Analyze 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).

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

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

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.                                

Qualifications
What experience we are looking for?

• Grade: 12  or equivalent
• 3 Years’ experience in a store managerial position.
• Sales & service management.
• Computer literacy.
• Communication skills.
• Retail trade.
• Brand, customer & product understanding.                                              
   

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Job Description

• Power Fashion is looking for a Location Planner.
• It is important that this person is high on delivery and the ability to work both independently as well as in a team environment.

Your purpose:

• Develop store merchandise strategies for one or more departments through developing store plans that will deliver budgeted profit through ensuring the right stock is at the right place at the right time to maximize sales and to minimize mark 

Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities:

Strategy Development:

• Use insights from analysis of past store sales and develop merchandise store plans that equate to profitable sales for future seasons in order to maximize the business strategy across stores.

Analysis / Forecasting:

• With the Planner, analyse trade in the current season in order to identify opportunities to maximize sales across stores. Analyse sales of the current season stores in order to identify insights and opportunities for future forecasts as well as to react to current season in adjusting allocations and store plans to maximize profitability

Stock Management:

• Track the level of inventory compared to sales across stores, working to quickly to react to under and over performing stores, in order to minimize stock holding through considering, inter branch transfers, and changes to allocations.      

Cover Ratios & Service Levels:

• Track and manage store cover ratios within the Sub-departments to ensure the correct cover ratios across stores to maximize allocation of stock. Review service levels to ensure correct stock level by size in all stores.

Qualifications
Requirements for this exciting career opportunity are:

Education:

• Degree in Business, Supply Chain and/or Finance related.

Experience:

• 3 years plus experience as a Retail/ merchandise/product planner.

Knowledge/ Skills:

• Knowledge of Apparel, Footwear, Accessories & Equipment.
• Analytical skills.
• Numerical skills.
• Microsoft Office.
• Communication and collaboration skills.
• Commercial Acumen.

Key Attributes:

• Self-motivated, proactive and works independently.
• Confident and ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation.

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Job Description

• An Assistant Manager is accountable for relieving the Store Manager in their absence and assists in maintaining company standards of housekeeping, merchandising, shrinkage control, discipline, and security.

Responsibilities

• Banking of money 
• Relieve store manager 
• Maintain company standards of housekeeping, merchandising, shrinkage control, discipline, and security 
• Ensure compliance of all company procedures 
• Assist store manager in management of staff
• Ensure front end controls are in place 
• Oversee the cash office 
• Minimize stock loss Customer Service 
• Introduce sales initiatives to reach store targets

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12 (Mathematics an advantage) or NQF Level 4 
• Previous experience managing people 
• Previous experience managing a department 
• Previous clothing retail experience would be highly advantageous 
• Strong communication skills 
• Strong admin skills 
• Decision maker
• Organizational skills 
• Planning 
• Maintain productivity
• Leadership 
• Enthusiastic
• Ethical and great integrity 
• Honesty 
• Proactive 
• Self-motivated

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Job Description
Our new Data Scientist needs to tick 3 boxes!

• Mad programming skills
• A sound business sense
• A data driven self-thinker
• The bottom line? Your primary responsibility will be to turn our heaps of data into actionable insight and improved efficiency.
• The team you would be joining is responsible for driving decisions utilising cloud data warehouse technologies, advanced visualisation, data science, along with solid collaboration!

Responsibilities

• Apply Machine Learning, Optimisation and AI techniques to our data with the aim of improving our business.
• Improve our business through analyses and hypotheses testing.
• Communicate insights, results and analyses to stakeholders.
• Promote and facilitate data-driven business decisions.
• Building relationships & gaining deep knowledge of the Mr Price business

Qualifications

• A degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Math, Computer Science, Physics or Engineering
• 0-5 years’ experience in a data science, software development or quantitative analysis role.
• The skills below are preferred but not required. We expect more experienced candidates to tick more of these boxes and the successful candidate will learn all of these during their career at Mr Price.
• Python or R, using libraries like Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, tidyverse, etc
• SQL, Relational DBMS and data modelling – to source and transform your inputs and save and explore your outputs.
• Exploratory Data Analysis skills and Data Visualisation tools e.g. Excel, PowerBI, Tableau.
• Applied statistics or machine learning methods e.g. Neural Networks, Decision Trees, Time Series Analyses, Clustering, Regression, Deep Learning.
• Optimisation Techniques e.g. Linear Programming, Genetic Algorithms, Simulated Annealing
• Big Data processing platforms like Spark
• Responsible software engineering practices e.g. Version Control (git), Design Patterns, Reproducability, Deployment etc.
• LLMs and GenAI – to leverage advanced AI techniques for innovative solutions.

How we work?

• The Data Science (DS) team sits within the Mr Price Advance team – alongside our Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Special Projects and Robotic Process Automation teams.
• The Mr Price Advance team falls within the Mr Price Technology division.  The Technology division has various specialisations (e.g. Security, Cloud, Infrastructure) which allows each of us to focus on our own particular strengths.  (There’s also the annual Hackathon.  So far the DS team has 2nd and 4th places – come help us win this year!)
• We have hybrid working arrangements, typically working Mondays and Fridays from home.
• Majority of our work (80%+) is project based with the balance (~20%) spent supporting our existing solutions.
• You will usually oversee a key part of a project, seek support from your data science team mates as needed, and give regular progress reports to the Head of Data Science.