AVI LIMITED is home to many of South Africa’s leading and best-loved brands. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the Food Products sector, and centred on the FMCG market, AVI’s extensive brand portfolio includes more than 50 brands. Our single-minded purpose is our brands growth and development. Our brands span a range of categories i...
Your Role:
- As a Flexi Store Assistant, you will be responsible for ensuring an outstanding shopping experience, supporting sales success, and upholding our brand’s reputation through meticulous stock and cash management.
Key Responsibilities:
Cash Control & Accuracy
- Perform cash desk duties efficiently while ensuring zero variances.
- Follow daily cash control and banking processes with precision.
- Handle manual transactions accurately when required.
Stock Management & Organisation
- Execute daily stock procedures to maintain seamless store operations.
- Assist in managing customer orders and ensuring timely fulfillment.
- Conduct weekly stock counts and maintain storeroom organisation.
- Complete shoe pairing exercises to uphold stock integrity.
Customer Service & Sales Support
- Deliver a premium shopping experience with expert product knowledge.
- Foster strong customer relationships by offering personalised service.
- Uphold the brand’s luxury standards through professionalism and enthusiasm.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- 6 months – 1 year of retail experience (luxury or fashion retail preferred)
- A passion for high-end fashion, footwear, and customer engagement
- Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and peak trading hours
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Your Role:
- As a Flexi Store Assistant, you will be responsible for ensuring an outstanding shopping experience, supporting sales success, and upholding our brand’s reputation through meticulous stock and cash management.
Key Responsibilities:
Cash Control & Accuracy
- Perform cash desk duties efficiently while ensuring zero variances.
- Follow daily cash control and banking processes with precision.
- Handle manual transactions accurately when required.
Stock Management & Organisation
- Execute daily stock procedures to maintain seamless store operations.
- Assist in managing customer orders and ensuring timely fulfillment.
- Conduct weekly stock counts and maintain storeroom organisation.
- Complete shoe pairing exercises to uphold stock integrity.
Customer Service & Sales Support
- Deliver a premium shopping experience with expert product knowledge.
- Foster strong customer relationships by offering personalised service.
- Uphold the brand’s luxury standards through professionalism and enthusiasm.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Matric / Grade 12 (essential)
- 6 months – 1 year of retail experience (luxury or fashion retail preferred)
- A passion for high-end fashion, footwear, and customer engagement
- Flexibility to work weekends, holidays, and peak trading hours
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Key Areas of Impact:
- Load vendor contracts in SAP, this includes pricing as negotiated and obtained from Procurement Managers and volumes confirmed by site buyers.
- Ensure critical control measure and attention to detail.
- Update source lists in SAP to ensure that the correct vendor and contract are selected to ensure that these pull through correctly when orders are placed.
- Understands the SAP contract management process to enable quick and effective fault finding and correction.
- Manage the contract processes in SAP.
- Ensure that there are no delays or errors when the Site Buyers need to place orders on vendors according to production requirements.
- Assist the Site Buyers to resolve and prevent pricing queries.
- Manage and maintain the Departmental Filing System physical and/or electronically.
- Maintain Procurement templates and databases.
- Support regular reporting processes i.e. SAP contracts and month-end reporting as required by Procurement Managers.
- Complete workflows and ensure submission thereof, i.e., New PC’s, vendor etc.
- Liaise with the various Sites to ensure alignment of supplier information i.e., price changes, supplier communications.
- Compile and process procurement requests promptly to required standards and needs.
- Conduct benchmarking exercises if required by Procurement Manager.
- Assist with Tender compilation and the administration thereof as and when required by the Procurement Managers.
- Ad Hoc Administrative assistance.
- Communicate professionally with suppliers and other stakeholders within AVI.
What It Takes to Succeed:
Experience that set you up for success:
- A minimum of three (3) years’ experience as a Procurement Administrator in an FMCG, supply chain or procurement industry
Qualifications & Certifications that will contribute to your success:
- A completed qualifications in Administration / Purchasing / Supply Chain or equivalent is advantageous
- A completed Matric / Grade 12 qualification is essential
Additional Requirements that will enhance your impact for success:
- Experience and knowledge on setting up document standards, filing and general administration function
- SAP experience is advantageous
- Contract management would be advantageous
- Strong administration skills
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What You’ll Bring to the Role:
- A completed qualification in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (NDip/BTech/BEng)
- 5+ years’ experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably FMCG
- Minimum 3 years in a senior engineering supervisory or management role
- Deep knowledge of the OHS Act, GMR 2.7 compliance, and utilities management
- Strong experience in spray drying, boilers, compressors, gas burners, infrastructure, and packaging plant equipment
- Proficiency in CMMS systems, SAP PM, SCADA, and energy-saving initiatives
- Exceptional leadership skills and the ability to coach, influence and drive high performance
- Passion for quality, standards, and continuous improvement
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Be the GMR 2.7 appointee and lead all statutory and safety inspections
- Drive preventative maintenance, reliability engineering, and OEM compliance
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary maintenance team
- Manage shutdowns, budgets, and equipment availability with an eye for efficiency and cost control
- Ensure food safety compliance (FSSC 22000, AIB, ISO) across all utilities and support systems
- Execute capital and maintenance projects, infrastructure upgrades, and process optimisations
- Champion a culture of ownership, care, and excellence
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Reporting Structure:
- Reports to: Finance Manager
Key Areas of Impact:
Financial Reporting and Analysis:
- Cost management and data analysis to inform business decisions.
- Compile and review the following reports monthly:
- CTF Vessel Income statement
- Detailed vessel cost analysis
- Shore Overheads
- Cost recoveries
- Stock adjustments / write offs
- Provide meaningful analysis of abovementioned reports to Financial Manager.
- Prepare ad hoc reports to support audit, operations or strategic decision-making.
Financial Checks, Controls & Reconciliations:
- Review and improve key cost reconciliation to ensure high level of accuracy.
- Perform the following reviews monthly to ensure high level of accuracy:
- Fish landed reconciliations.
- Packaging count and reconciliations
- Fuel usage and reconciliations
- Vessel cost vs plan and prior
- Cost center allocations
Month End Activities:
- Perform month end close to Trail Balance, ensuring high level of accuracy and integrity.
- Perform the following month end financial processing activities within the given timelines:
- Calculate specific expense accruals and park postings in SAP.
- Calculate shore based overhead allocation and ensure reporting reflects allocation correctly.
- Prepare monthly reporting pack, with the view to eventually automate.
Plant and equipment maintenance and project spend:
- Support capital project costing, business cases and approvals.
- Review and track spend.
- Report and present project milestones, spend and any variances.
Budget and Forecast Processes:
- Collaborate and provide strategic support to operational management.
- Understand key cost and business drivers to ensure high level of accuracy in the forecasting process.
- Co-ordinate with planning and operations teams to ensure inputs received is accurate and complete.
- Upload budget and forecast into SAP with the view of automating process.
What It Takes to Succeed:
Experience that set you up for success:
- Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in a similar role
Qualifications & Certifications that will contribute to your success:
- A BCom Degree is required
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