The Mr Price Group (MRPG) is a fashion value retailer, selling predominantly for cash. The Group retails Apparel, Homeware and Sportsware and is one of the fastest growing retailers in South Africa. Our History: 1885 - The first John Orrs store opens 1934 - The first Hub store opens 1952 - John Orrs is listed on the JSE 1967 - Acquisition of two Miladys s...
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Job Description
- Support the store manager in managing the daily operations of a store to ensure that the overall objectives, store targets and customer service standards are met and exceeded.
Responsibilities
Stock Management:
- Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.
- Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes to mitigate risks (stock loss) and ensure adequate stock on hand.
- Oversee the overall maintenance of the stockroom to meet housekeeping standards.
- Authorise write offs, breakages, recalls and returns.
Sales Growth & Profitability:
- Analyse 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.
Risk Management:
- Conduct compliance checks through defined processes to ensure and enforce overall compliance to policies and procedures.
Customer Experience Management:
- Ensure and maintain the implementation of customer experience processes 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
- Grade: 12.
- 2 to 3 Years' Experience in a Supervisory/Assistant Store Management capacity.
- Understanding of Sales & Service Management.
- Budgeting Skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Effective Communication Skills
- Understanding of Retail Trade.
- Understanding of Brand, Customer & Product.
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Job Description
- You are an experienced and commercially-minded Head of Buying / Senior Merchandise Manager that will lead our homeware & kitchen buying function in playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our brand. You thrive on formulating strategies to differentiate our company's product from those of our competitors across brands and private label and connect strongly with all stakeholders across the merchandise cycle/process.
Responsibilities
- As Head of Buying, you will lead the merchandising function by providing operational oversight and setting appropriate direction for preparing merchandising calendars, determining optimal product mix and researching materials that encourage initial or repeat purchases.
- Leading a dynamic team, you’ll be responsible for driving product performance, identifying new opportunities, and ensuring our products continue to excite and delight customers.
Qualifications
- University degree (NQF 8 equivalent in commerce or related field)
- 8-10 years of experience with 5+ years in a senior / management role
- Extensive buying experience in the homeware or lifestyle sector
- Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of delivering sales/business growth and profitability
- Excellent leadership skills with the ability to inspire and develop high-performing teams
- A deep understanding of trends, consumer behaviour, and the retail landscape
- Strategic & Analytical thinker with outstanding negotiation and supplier relationship management skills
- Passionate about product and brand with a keen eye for design and quality
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Job Description
- The purpose of this role is to ensure the reconciliation of the assigned accounts are maintained on a monthly basis.
Responsibilities
Cashbook processing and Bank Recon:
- Preparation of monthly bank reconciliation for each bank account, both local and foreign, to reconcile the bank statements to the General Ledger bank balance in order to investigate variances or discrepancies which may result in loss.
- Processing of monthly interest and bank charges
Variance Analysis:
- Identify and investigate cash variances within stores and instances of fraud in order to resolve differences and avoid loss.
- Assist team with adhoc tasks
Qualifications
Knowledge/ Skills:
- Computer literate – ability to work on Excel, MS Outlook, Dynamics (D365) an advantage
- Experience working with bank reconciliations
- 2 years’ experience working in finance
Education
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Job Description
- To grow market share and maximize sales through leadership and development of seasonal Visual Merchandise (VM) strategies, visual merchandisers within team and brand accountability through regular interaction with key stakeholders (merchant teams, operations teams, marketing and Visual Merchandisers’ in stores and at support centre).
Responsibilities
- To ensure the effective implementation of the Visual Merchandise strategy to ensure consistency of visual presentation, increase profit, optimize space and enhance the customers shopping experience through continuous innovation and creativity.
- Partner with Store Operations, Marketing, Merchants to deliver the Visual Merchandise strategy.
- Develop, train and drive the implementation of the Visual Merchandise strategy aligned with the Divisional strategy and KPIs to drive sales and profitability.
- Communicate & implement merchandising principles & seasonal/monthly plans.
- Attend Merch reviews/ post mortems etc. to ensure the Visual Merchandise Strategy is aligned with the Merch and Business Strategy.
- Drive consistency of high-level visual merchandising presentation through regular store visits & feedback and recommendations to the National Visual Manager to increase sales and optimal space management.
- Analyse sales reports to identify opportunities, ensuring the Visual & Operations team can implement actions for improved performance.
- Coach and drive the Visual Merchandise team to implement the Visual Merchandise strategy to ensure the delivery of world class windows and visual standards across your designated areas.
- Assist in training associates at stores on visual merchandising standards via multiple channels to ensure Visual merchandising standards are consistently applied to all stores.
- Assist with training needs of the Visual Merchandise team.
Qualifications
- Degree in Interior Design and/or Visual Merchandising/ Fashion/ Retail Management
- 5 to 8 years visual merchandising for a clothing retailer
- Proficiency with graphics software, Adobe Suite (Photoshop & in- design), Illustrator – Sketch Up an added advantage and Microsoft suite.
- Must have good business understanding of Retail, Product Knowledge, Brand Knowledge, Store Layout, Fixture and Store Profile, People management and financial budgeting.
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Job Description
- Lead and manage the daily operations of your store to ensure that the overall objectives which include store targets, innovation initiatives, and customer service standards are met and exceeded.
Responsibilities
Stock Management:
- Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.
- Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes 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:
- Analyse 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.
Risk Management:
- Conduct compliance checks through defined processes 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.
Innovation:
- Implement Innovation initiatives from Head Office to delight our customers and improve in-store processes.
Qualifications
- Grade 12.
- 3 to 5 years' experience in a retail store management capacity.
- Knowledge on sales & service management.
- Budgeting knowledge.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Effective Communication skills.
- Business understanding of retail trade, brand, customer & product.
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Job Description
- Lead and manage the daily operations of your store to ensure that the overall objectives which include store targets, innovation initiatives, and customer service standards are met and exceeded.
Responsibilities
Stock Management:
- Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.
- Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes 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:
- Analyse 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.
Risk Management:
- Conduct compliance checks through defined processes 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.
Innovation:
- Implement Innovation initiatives from Head Office to delight our customers and improve in-store processes.
Qualifications
- Grade 12.
- 3 to 5 years' experience in a retail store management capacity.
- Knowledge on sales & service management.
- Budgeting knowledge.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Effective Communication skills.
- Business understanding of retail trade, brand, customer & product.
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Job Description
- Support the store manager in managing the daily operations of a store to ensure that the overall objectives, store targets and customer service standards are met and exceeded.
Responsibilities
Stock Management:
- Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.
- Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes to mitigate risks (stock loss) and ensure adequate stock on hand.
- Oversee the overall maintenance of the stockroom to meet housekeeping standards.
- Authorise write offs, breakages, recalls and returns.
Sales Growth & Profitability:
- Analyse 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.
Risk Management:
Conduct compliance checks through defined processes to ensure and enforce overall compliance to policies and procedures.
Customer Experience Management:
- Ensure and maintain the implementation of customer experience processes 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
- Grade: 12.
- 2 to 3 Years' Experience in a Supervisory/Assistant Store Management capacity.
- Understanding of Sales & Service Management.
- Budgeting Skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Effective Communication Skills
- Understanding of Retail Trade.
- Understanding of Brand, Customer & Product.
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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 utilizing cloud data warehouse technologies, advanced visualization, 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 – to explore and understand your data.
- 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
- Data Visualisation tools e.g. Excel, PowerBI, Tableau.
- Responsible software engineering practices e.g. Version Control (git), Design Patterns, Reproducability, Deployment etc.
- Experience LLMs and GenAI – to leverage advanced AI techniques for innovative solutions.
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Job Description
- Support the store manager in managing the daily operations of a store to ensure that the overall objectives, store targets and customer service standards are met and exceeded.
Responsibilities
Stock Management:
- Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.
- Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes to mitigate risks (stock loss) and ensure adequate stock on hand.
- Oversee the overall maintenance of the stockroom to meet housekeeping standards.
- Authorise write offs, breakages, recalls and returns.
Sales Growth & Profitability:
- Analyse 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.
Risk Management:
Conduct compliance checks through defined processes to ensure and enforce overall compliance to policies and procedures.
Customer Experience Management:
- Ensure and maintain the implementation of customer experience processes 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
- Grade: 12.
- 2 to 3 Years' Experience in a Supervisory/Assistant Store Management capacity.
- Understanding of Sales & Service Management.
- Budgeting Skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Effective Communication Skills
- Understanding of Retail Trade.
- Understanding of Brand, Customer & Product.
go to method of application »
Job Description
- Support the store manager in managing the daily operations of a store to ensure that the overall objectives, store targets and customer service standards are met and exceeded.
Responsibilities
Stock Management:
- Ensure that stock is accurately received & unpacked to merchandise and replenish the sales floor.
- Monitor and manage stock levels through defined processes to mitigate risks (stock loss) and ensure adequate stock on hand.
- Oversee the overall maintenance of the stockroom to meet housekeeping standards.
- Authorise write offs, breakages, recalls and returns.
Sales Growth & Profitability:
- Analyse 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.
Risk Management:
Conduct compliance checks through defined processes to ensure and enforce overall compliance to policies and procedures.
Customer Experience Management:
- Ensure and maintain the implementation of customer experience processes 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
- Grade: 12.
- 2 to 3 Years' Experience in a Supervisory/Assistant Store Management capacity.
- Understanding of Sales & Service Management.
- Budgeting Skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office.
- Effective Communication Skills
- Understanding of Retail Trade.
- Understanding of Brand, Customer & Product.
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