Cape Union Mart International (Pty) Ltd has been equipping South African adventurers since 1933, and is South Africa's favourite outdoor adventure store. Stocking everything one needs for outdoor pursuits - including hiking, camping, trail running, mountain biking, snow sports, travel and more - Cape Union Mart is an essential first step in every adve...
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Job Description
- We are seeking a motivated, fashion-passionate, and commercially minded Assistant Buyer to join our Ladieswear Apparel team.
- This role is ideal for someone with experience in the fashion retail industry, preferably within ladieswear apparel. We are looking for an individual who is eager to learn and build a long-term career in fashion buying. Buying administration experience is advantageous but not essential — we are open to developing the right candidate and will provide guidance, mentorship, and exposure across the full buying function.
- You will support the Buying Team across the entire product lifecycle, helping to deliver compelling, customer-focused ranges that excite our customers while achieving departmental and business objectives. This role operates within a fast-paced, deadline-driven retail environment.
Key Responsibilities
Buying Support & Range Coordination
- Assist the Buyer with range preparation, coordination, and presentations
- Support the end-to-end merchandise buying process
- Prepare data and materials for range and post-range reviews
- Coordinate and assist with range execution in alignment with business objectives
- Support the Buyer during supplier negotiations and cost discussions
Market & Trend Involvement
- Conduct trend research and competitor analysis
- Analyse local and international market activity
- Interpret trends and adapt them to different target markets
- Contribute trend insights to range development
Supplier Relations & Product Management
- Support supplier communication and relationship building
- Coordinate product samples, fit sessions, approvals, quality checks, and feedback
- Assist with the approval and order management processes
- Manage, organise, and control sample stock
- Maintain documentation relating to supplier terms, delivery schedules, and compliance
Commercial & Performance Support
- Monitor sales trends and stock performance to support range decisions
- Support pricing analysis and margin tracking
- Prepare competitor price and product comparisons
- Assist with post-range analysis and reporting
Internal Collaboration
- Liaise with cross-functional teams including Design, Planning, Marketing, E-commerce, Supply Chain, Quality, and Merchandising
- Ensure effective communication to meet timelines and product expectations
Administrative & Process Management
- Maintain and manage critical paths
- Update and maintain accurate buying documentation and product information
- Support forecasting and purchase order tracking
- Assist with reporting and data analysis as required
Experience & Qualifications Required
- Matric / Grade 12 certificate
- 1–3 years’ experience in the fashion retail industry (buying administration experience advantageous but not essential)
- Exposure to clothing retail processes, ideally fashion apparel
- Basic understanding of the retail cycle and merchandise buying principles
- Good understanding of fashion trends, silhouettes, fabrics, garment construction, and fit
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel essential)
Advantageous
- Relevant qualification in Fashion, Retail, or Buying preferred
- Exposure to PLM or ERP systems
- Experience assisting in product development or trend research
Skills & Competencies
- Strong passion for fashion and trend awareness
- Ability to interpret trends and adapt them to different target markets
- Desire to develop negotiation and commercial decision-making skills
- Commercial curiosity and interest in retail performance
- Strong organisational and time-management skills
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Numerically confident with sound analytical ability
- Quick learner with a proactive and solution-focused mindset
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Collaborative team player
- Adaptable and proactive, with a willingness to contribute beyond core responsibilities when required to meet critical deadlines and support team success in a dynamic retail environment
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Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
- Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
- Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
- Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
- Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards in order to optimise sales.
- Create an inspiring environment.
Behavioural Requirements:
- Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
- Building & maintaining relationships
- Innovation & change management
- Thinking adaptability
- Taking ownership
Minimum Requirement.
- 6 months of retail experience
- Matric or Equivalent
- Clear Criminal record
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for)
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- A fantastic opportunity exists for an experienced and highly skilled Senior Accessories Buyer within our Cape Union Mart Division. We’re looking for a strategic, commercially driven individual with strong product development expertise and the ability to lead the creation of a market‑leading range of own‑brand and branded accessories.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the sourcing, development and management of a commercially strong own‑brand product assortment across multiple categories.
- Drive seasonal product strategies and manage relationships with international branded suppliers.
- Mentor and support buying team members, providing guidance on best practices and product development processes.
- Partner with Merchandise Planning to manage and optimize Open‑to‑Buy (OTB).
- Prepare and present strategic range reviews to senior leadership.
- Ensure all product imagery and information are optimized for E‑commerce.
- Own end‑to‑end marketing briefs and alignment on key seasonal stories.
- Conduct continuous research into global and local market trends and apply insights to range direction.
- Lead negotiations with suppliers to ensure competitive pricing, quality and delivery reliability.
- Oversee supplier performance, risk management and adherence to company terms.
- Ensure all own‑brand products comply with South African consumer standards and import requirements.
- Drive product quality assurance, including testing and compliance checks before launch.
- Conduct regular store visits to identify opportunities and improve product performance.
- Collaborate with stores and relevant teams to deliver effective product training.
- Monitor product lifecycle, stock levels, sell‑through and customer needs to inform future decisions.
Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications
- Grade 12 and a relevant Retail Diploma/Degree.
- 5+ years experience as a Buyer, with proven experience working at a senior or advanced level.
- Strong background in product development and working with international suppliers.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to build and deliver profitable ranges.
- Excellent understanding of costing, margins, pricing architecture and sourcing strategies.
- Must be willing and able to travel locally and internationally.
Behavioural Competencies
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking ability.
- Deep interest in electronics, gadgets and emerging categories.
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills.
- Proactive, solutions‑focused and comfortable managing ambiguity.
- Strong relationship‑builder with internal teams and external partners.
- Ability to lead, mentor and inspire others.
- Highly organized with strong time‑management skills.
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex information clearly.
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Job Description
- An exciting opportunity has become available for a Replenishment Analyst to join our dynamic Planning team. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring optimal stock availability across stores through data-driven replenishment strategies, contributing to sales growth and profitability.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse sales trends, stock levels, and demand patterns to drive replenishment decisions and strategies
- Develop, maintain, and optimise replenishment models and system parameters
- Monitor and manage stock levels to minimise overstock and stock-outs
- Collaborate with Planners, Buyers, Stores, and Distribution teams
- Support forecasting, budgeting, and inventory planning processes
- Track KPIs such as stock turn, availability, and forecast accuracy
- Identify risks and opportunities through data insights and reporting
- Assist with store grading, clustering, and assortment optimisation
Requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualification (Business, Supply Chain, Retail or similar)
- 2–3+ years’ experience in replenishment, merchandise planning, location planning or as an analyst
- Strong analytical and numerical ability
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (essential)
- Experience with planning and replenishment systems
- Understanding of retail/FMCG environment
- Strong understanding of stores and/or space planning
- Experience building/assisting and implementing new systems & documents
- Strong communication skills
Competencies
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Proactive, self-motivated, and results-driven
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Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
- Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
- Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
- Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
- Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards in order to optimise sales.
- Create an inspiring environment
Behavioural Requirements:
- Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
- Building & maintaining relationships
- Innovation & change management
- Thinking adaptability
- Taking ownership
Minimum Requirement.
- 6 months of retail experience
- Matric or Equivalent
- Clear Criminal record
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for)
go to method of application »
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
- Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
- Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
- Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
- Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards to optimise sales.
- Create an inspiring environment. Have fun.
- Transact all purchases – receive, verify and processes all payments such as cash, cards, vouchers, coupons and any other acceptable payments.
- Ensure all out going stock/ items/ scripts are scanned and paid for.
- Process all loyalty cards including those of accelerated partners.
- Establish a professional relationship with customers and provide friendly, helpful, courteous assistance and advice to all customers.
- Report customer compliments and complaints to management.
- Attend to all customer stock queries and ensure that they dealt with and resolved.
Behavioural Requirements:
- Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
- Building & maintaining relationships
- Innovation & change management
- Thinking adaptability
- Taking ownership
- Problem solving
- Trustworthy and honest
- Time management
- Exceptional customer service
Minimum Requirement.
Essential:
- Matric or Equivalent
- Up to 6 months retail experience
Special conditions of employment:
- Clear Credit and Criminal record
- Willing and able to work retail hours.
- South African citizen
Advantageous:
- 1 year work experience within retail.
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for) Willing and able to work retail hours.
go to method of application »
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
- Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
- Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
- Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
- Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards in order to optimise sales.
- Create an inspiring environment.
Behavioural Requirements:
- Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
- Building & maintaining relationships
- Innovation & change management
- Thinking adaptability
- Taking ownership
Minimum Requirement.
- 6 months of retail experience
- Matric or Equivalent
- Clear Criminal record
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for)
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Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- To achieve the annual sales budget through meeting and exceeding daily and monthly budgets to ensure the sustainability of the business
- To manage and control the financial aspects of running the store to ensure store profitability.
- To adhere to merchandising standards in line with the brand requirements to ensure good product mix.
- To ensure proper stock management and control to minimise loss and to ensure product availability, by monitoring stock related risks.
- To deliver exceptional customer service to ensure the best customer experience.
- To build excellent relationships with all relevant service providers (internal and external)
- To manage human resources effectively by recruiting, planning, and administrating payroll properly
- To inspire, motivate, develop, and hold people accountable appropriately.
- Align team members to Company culture and create fun.
- Implement all company policies and procedures.
- Maintaining health & safety practices
Behavioural Requirements:
- Honesty in dealing with cash or finances.
- Inspirational leadership & passion
- Taking ownership
- Building & maintaining relationships
- Innovation & ability to deal with change management.
- Thinking adaptability
- Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Follow instructions and procedures.
- Leading and supervising
- Achieving personal work goals and objectives
Minimum Requirements:
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Clear Criminal record
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years’ Store Management experience
- Minimum of 8 years' Retail experience
- Experience in working in a large retail store with a turnover of more than R 20 million per annum.
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Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- To achieve the annual sales budget through meeting and exceeding daily and monthly budgets to ensure the sustainability of the business
- To manage and control the financial aspects of running the store to ensure store profitability.
- To adhere to merchandising standards in line with the brand requirements to ensure good product mix.
- To ensure proper stock management and control to minimise loss and to ensure product availability, by monitoring stock related risks.
- To deliver exceptional customer service to ensure the best customer experience.
- To build excellent relationships with all relevant service providers (internal and external)
- To manage human resources effectively by recruiting, planning, and administrating payroll properly
- To inspire, motivate, develop, and hold people accountable appropriately.
- Align team members to Company culture and create fun.
- Implement all company policies and procedures.
- Maintaining health & safety practices
Behavioural Requirements:
- Honesty in dealing with cash or finances.
- Inspirational leadership & passion
- Taking ownership
- Building & maintaining relationships
- Innovation & ability to deal with change management.
- Thinking adaptability
- Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Follow instructions and procedures.
- Leading and supervising
- Achieving personal work goals and objectives
Minimum Requirements:
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Clear Criminal record
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years’ Store Management experience
- Minimum of 8 years' Retail experience
- Experience in working in a large retail store with a turnover of more than R 20 million per annum.
go to method of application »
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- To achieve the annual sales budget through meeting and exceeding daily and monthly budgets to ensure the sustainability of the business
- To manage and control the financial aspects of running the store to ensure store profitability.
- To adhere to merchandising standards in line with the brand requirements to ensure good product mix.
- To ensure proper stock management and control to minimise loss and to ensure product availability, by monitoring stock related risks.
- To deliver exceptional customer service to ensure the best customer experience.
- To build excellent relationships with all relevant service providers (internal and external)
- To manage human resources effectively by recruiting, planning, and administrating payroll properly
- To inspire, motivate, develop, and hold people accountable appropriately.
- Align team members to Company culture and create fun.
- Implement all company policies and procedures.
- Maintaining health & safety practices
Behavioural Requirements:
- Honesty in dealing with cash or finances.
- Inspirational leadership & passion
- Taking ownership
- Building & maintaining relationships
- Innovation & ability to deal with change management.
- Thinking adaptability
- Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Follow instructions and procedures.
- Leading and supervising
- Achieving personal work goals and objectives
Minimum Requirements:
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Clear Criminal record
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years’ Store Management experience
- Minimum of 8 years' Retail experience
- Experience in working in a large retail store with a turnover of more than R 20 million per annum.
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Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Assisting in managing all aspects of a store
- Maximizing turnover and profit
- Stock loss control and prevention
- Deliver exceptional customer service by implementing customer experience strategy.
- Lead Talent selection, training, coaching, retention and recognize initiatives for all team members.
- Innovative visual merchandising to optimize sales.
- Implement all company policies and procedures.
- Maintaining health & safety practices
- Optimize team through creating an inspiring environment.
- Align team members to Company culture and create fun.
Minimum requirements:
- 2 years of Supervisory experience
- Matric or Equivalent
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Clear Criminal record
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
Behavioural requirements:
- Inspirational leadership and passion
- Taking ownership
- Building and maintaining relationships
- Innovation and change management
- Thinking adaptability
- Taking ownership
go to method of application »
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
- Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
- Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
- Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
- Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards to optimise sales.
- Create an inspiring environment. Have fun.
- Transact all purchases – receive, verify and processes all payments such as cash, cards, vouchers, coupons and any other acceptable payments.
- Ensure all out going stock/ items/ scripts are scanned and paid for.
- Process all loyalty cards including those of accelerated partners.
- Establish a professional relationship with customers and provide friendly, helpful, courteous assistance and advice to all customers.
- Report customer compliments and complaints to management.
- Attend to all customer stock queries and ensure that they dealt with and resolved.
Behavioural Requirements:
- Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
- Building & maintaining relationships
- Innovation & change management
- Thinking adaptability
- Taking ownership
- Problem solving
- Trustworthy and honest
- Time management
- Exceptional customer service
Minimum Requirement.
Essential:
- Matric or Equivalent
- Up to 6 months retail experience
Special conditions of employment:
- Clear Credit and Criminal record
- Willing and able to work retail hours.
- South African citizen
Advantageous:
- 1 year work experience within retail.
- Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for) Willing and able to work retail hours.
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