Jobs at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Role Summary

• To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage.
• Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to.

Minimum Requirements

• Matric/ Grade 12
• Sound Numeracy skills and knowledge of retail industry
• Deli Experience and Knowledge OR 1-2 years Run a department responsible for sales staff
• Management experience - coaching, training, dealing with noncompliance and performance issues

Competencies

• Achieving results through others
• Plan, organize and follow up on activities and plans
• Adhere to standards and policies
• Customer Orientation
• Communication skills – clearly conveying message and actively listening
• Business mindedness

Key Responsibilities

Merchandising Management:

• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise
• Executes plano guide 100%
• Handles product as per SOP
• Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time
• Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales opportunities
• Ensures produce is wrapped and packed according to standards
• Ensures sufficient product available for customer demand
• Ensures compliance to hygiene, housekeeping and safe working standard
• Monitors the implementation of all promotional activities – adherence to promotional calendar
• Back up areas are kept clean and clear
• Understand customer needs and communicate these to demand planning
• Follows sell by dates, rotates stock as per policy/SOP on sales floor and back up area
• Throughout day ensures department merchandising and cleanliness standards are maintained, keeping waste to a minimum

Food Safety & Hygiene:

• Ensures that hygiene and housekeeping standards are maintained
• Ensures stock rotation
• Monitors the adherence to food safety and health and safety standards are maintained
• Manages non-conformances via effective corrective action
• Implements cleaning schedules and checks effective cleaning and sanitation

Customer Services Management:

• Responds to customer requests
• Answers queries on out of stock - assists with replacement produce, explains time to next delivery and issues which may be affecting stock availability
• Ensures department standards are maintained, equipment is manned and in working order

Staff Management:

• Communicates critical information to staff
• Set targets and activities – priorities, delegates and communicates
• Handles procedural, policy and legislative noncompliance
• Attends monthly regional meetings - take information back to staff - responds to queries on turnover/waste
• Checks and amends Kronos scheduling

Administration:

• Ensures that all equipment is properly maintained in effective working order
• Ensures that general maintenance standards are met
• Monitors waste, and ensures procedures are adhered to
• Monitors turnover and identifies opportunities for increasing turnover and identifies and issues or barriers to achieving budgets.
• Ensures all SEL in place - print out and ensure all products have SEL current and legible by customer

Systems:

• Gap scanning out of stocks
• Identifies, counts, and records out of stocks & over stocks
• Draws excel report from SAP, communicate addresses stock concerns by completing excel sheet and sending to Demand Planning
• Processes IDTs via SAP
• Actions reduced to clear on SAP as per SOP
• Checks for electronic communications regularly during the working day
• Processes waste

Closing date: 27 July 2025

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Role Summary

• To collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• To optimize effective stock replenishment processes, through identification and execution of solutions that will impact positively on shelf availability, thereby maximizing turnover.
• Ensuring accurate communication go out to all the different store formats and drive action on this communication.

Minimum requirements

• Grade 12
• Previous experience networking with vendors, internal or external stakeholders
• Proficient in Excel (Intermediate)
• 2-3 year Retail Experience of which at least 1 year must be PnP specific experience
• SAP (ERP, BI) knowledge
• Good knowledge of the promotion process
• Good knowledge into business systems (inventory, replenishment, master data)
• Knowledge of the processes and procedures within the division
• Working knowledge of DC and Store Operations & Space Planning

Competencies

• Analysis
• Conceptual Thinking
• Data Accuracy and attention to Detail
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Drive
• Flexibility
• Positive, willing attitude
• Networking / Liaison
• Organizational Awareness
• Influencing
• Verbal and Written Communication
• Business Insights
• Environmental Scanning
• Prioritizing tasks
• Monitoring
• Problem Solving Skills
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to work on own as well as in a team

Store Operational Integration

• Collaborate with central cross-functional teams
• Obtain information from regional teams on store Events/Activities/Launches and liaise with planning teams to incorporate demand drivers into planning process
• Gap Scan Analysis
• Store Communication Tool Execution and Analysis
• Store Queries
• Store communication (Email, WhatsApp)
• Franchisee Specifics: Auto replenishment etc.
• Store visits

Special Events & Promo Execution

• Planning & coordinating special events and promo execution
• Communicating compliance and cut off times to all stores
• Obtain store input and check quantities with the regions
• Feedback store input to SCP

New/Revamp/ Conversion/Closure Store Execution

• Obtain and share tracker with cross functional teams i.e. I&T, Regions, Planning, Logistics
• Placing opening orders
• Manage and assist with movement of stock

Store Training on Planning Tools

• Training on all reports, transactions, and functions instore to optimize replenishment.
• BI Reports
• Strike Rate

Reporting, Analytics and Projects

• Provide various daily, weekly or monthly reports to cross functional teams & external stakeholders (franchise)
• Execute Ad hoc projects
• Investigate queries with fact finding solutions
• Analyze planning parameters to optimize replenishment
• Identify opportunities for developments to improve store processes

Closing date: 24 July 2025

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Role Summary

• To expand the footprint of PnP Clothing through the generation of sales from new stores and to perform a property management function as it affects all leases in the PnP Clothing portfolio.
• This is a business-critical appointment that offers exceptional career growth prospects but demands in turn an exceptional individual.

Minimum Requirements

• Graduate/ Post-Graduate formative degree, preferably Law, Commerce or Allied Building Science
• 5 years operational experience in Retail Property Industry and ability to interpret a store P&L statement

Competencies

• Honesty and integrity with ambition, short of arrogance, to succeed.
• Exceptional attention to detail both in deal origination, structuring and documentation.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to be applied with confidence at the highest levels in business.
• Above average computer skills (Word and Excel Advance).
• Ability to thrive at work under pressure.
• Combined ability to work as a team but also independently without supervision.
• Additional information: All other administration functions required by the General Manager - Store Development or Head of Properties.

Key Responsibilities

SALES:

• Deliver a sustainable long term pipeline that contributes to profit growth from net new space in the Regions in which PnP Clothing operates.
• Actively procure opportunities identified in the gap list and in relation to high performance competitor stores.
• Promote the identification and delivery of opportunities in high growth areas.

REDUCTION IN OCCUPACY COSTS:

• Negotiate rentals for new stores within tramlines and engage landlords to reduce existing costs in order to drive reduction in occupacy costs, e.g. relocations, reductions and sub-let opportunities.
• Renew existing store gross rentals at no more than retail average occupancy costs and reduce rental escalations according to strategic imperatives.

LANDLORD INTERACTIONS:

• Capture, track and resolve all lease issues with landlords timeously.
• Negotiate landlord contributions for revamps and at lease renewals.
• Negotiate least cost exit liabilities associated with store closures and coordinate the same.
• Monitor landlord compliance with store opening conditions and enforce penalties where applicable.

LEGAL AND ADMIN:

• Ensure all legal documentation accurately, concisely and unambigously reflects the terms of the deal.
• Continuously update and maintain all tracking documentation for management information purposes.
• Ensure database of landlord contacts is effectively maintained by ensuring all relevant information is regularly updated.

Closing date: 27 July 2025