Vacancies at Mr Price Group

• To develop divisional capability for Location Planning in order to maximise location specific demand and to enable growth. Leadership of the planning teams to formulate, control and drive the portfolio performance, according to the company’s strategic objectives and seasonal financial strategies in order to drive sales and profitability by providing a delightful in store experience for the customer through ensuring the right product, at the right price is in the right place at the right time. Development of respective processes to align and enable merchandise functioning in line with support teams to foster working relations and successful achievement of strategic KPIs.

Responsibilities
what will you do?
 
Management:

• Management of the Location Planning function with regards to achieving team KPI's / targets by bringing alignment at a strategic level, ensuring workload is effectively distributed and individuals are engaged in line with the business' priorities in order to translate the planning strategy into an operational plan. 
• Enablement of international/location planning and merchandise teams to operate efficiently and in alignment with strategic and operational requirements. 

Strategic Alignment:

• Oversee the implementation of the divisional International and Location Planning strategy and provide SME recommendations to continually align actions to the completion of key projects and the overall business strategy success.

Trade Optimisation:

• Continuously identifying areas of opportunity and risk within the current execution of planned location specific stock and sales forecasted and the development/implementation of strategic actions to correct the projection in order to maintain the forecasted sales trajectory.

Location Planning:

• Maximising store specific business opportunities across all locations to increase company sales opportunities by non-comparative activity.

Stock Optimisation:

• Continuously managing and guiding the correct distribution of stock brought into the business across locations to achieve maximum return on investment.

Key Projects:

• Leading of continuous improvement projects within the International Retail and Location Planning function aimed to optimise business processes and achieve the execution of the business' strategic imperatives.

Qualifications
do you tick all the boxes?

Education:

• Degree or diploma in Commerce/Maths/Stats 

Experience:

• 5-7 years location/international/merchandise planning experience
• 2-3 years management experience

Specific Knowledge:

• MSOffice, Management, Value Chain, Import/Export Processes, Global Retail, Trend Analysis, Sales/Stock Forecasting, Communication, Strategy, Project Management, Profitability Metrics

Business Understanding:

• Merch processes, DC/SC/Shipping processes, Redworld MIS, Redworld, Efocus, Rpas, BI, High Jump

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Job Description

• A Store Manager will lead a team of passionate associates in maximizing store sales/turnover, ensuring the stock loss benchmark is maintained and managing the administration of the store.

Responsibilities

• Promote sales. 
• Manage stock, and control expenses to meet business targets. 
• Achieve and/or exceed the required targets that are set out for the store. 
• Use store resources effectively to maintain the productivity of the store. 
• Encompass a thorough knowledge of stock and management of policies and procedures. 
• Act as the custodian of all company policies and procedures to ensure standards are met. 
• Assume accountability for the management and the training of all staff. 
• Maintaining the company culture by treating staff in a respectful and professional manner. 
• Ensure all interaction with customers results in an above-average customer service level. 
• Monitor the cleanliness and hygiene store and staff accordingly to ensure that it adheres to the relevant laws and company standards. 

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12, Mathematics an advantage 
• 2 years’ experience in a Retail Store Management or Assistant Store Manager role preferably in a similar retail  environment. 
• Excellent business English, both verbal and written  

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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

• A Store Manager will lead a team of passionate associates in maximizing store sales/turnover, ensuring the stock loss benchmark is maintained and managing the administration of the store.

Responsibilities

• Promote sales. 
• Manage stock, and control expenses to meet business targets. 
• Achieve and/or exceed the required targets that are set out for the store. 
• Use store resources effectively to maintain the productivity of the store. 
• Encompass a thorough knowledge of stock and management of policies and procedures. 
• Act as the custodian of all company policies and procedures to ensure standards are met. 
• Assume accountability for the management and the training of all staff. 
• Maintaining the company culture by treating staff in a respectful and professional manner. 
• Ensure all interaction with customers results in an above-average customer service level. 
• Monitor the cleanliness and hygiene store and staff accordingly to ensure that it adheres to the relevant laws and company standards. 

Qualifications

• Matric / Grade 12, Mathematics an advantage 
• 2 years’ experience in a Retail Store Management or Assistant Store Manager role preferably in a similar retail  environment. 
• Excellent business English, both verbal and written  

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Job Description

• We’re Yuppiechef, and we see ourselves as helping people find moments of joy at home. We’re here to offer outstanding and memorable service both in-store and online, while selling things that our customers love through a seamless omni-channel experience. We take pride in building our own tech – from our online store and POS (Point of Sale) app to our warehouse systems and admin dashboards. This enables us to drive retail innovation and craft experiences that delight 
• We’re looking for a passionate full-time Senior Developer to help shape our software and architecture as we grow and scale

Responsibilities

• We’re looking for someone inwardly driven to make an impact through their work. You are a life-long learner, you embrace successes and challenges, you enjoy crafting solutions over time, and you work well both autonomously and collaboratively. Strong communication – whether in person or asynchronously – is one of your strengths.
•  You’ll lead both hands-on development and strategic planning to create systems that are scalable, efficient, and maintainable, supporting Yuppiechef’s long-term growth. 

As a Senior Software Developer, you will: 

• Lead technical project planning to align with business goals 
• Steward the full development lifecycle, from planning to deployment and maintenance 
• Build new features, simplify existing services, and scale systems 
• Analyse project requirements and propose technical solutions 
• Champion observability and drive architecture to improve system stability 
• Provide technical leadership and mentor more junior team members 
• Collaborate across business units to ensure alignment and successful outcomes

What does our stack look like? 

• Front end: Clojurescript, React (RUM), Javascript 
• Back end: Clojure, Java, PHP 
• Infrastructure: Nginx / Apache, AWS, Kafka / RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached, Docker, Cloudflare, Datadog, Sentry

Qualifications
We welcome candidates with diverse technical backgrounds. While beneficial, you don’t need prior Clojure experience, however you should be enthusiastic about learning it and comfortable adopting new languages. 

• 7+ years of experience building web or mobile applications 
• Proficiency in functional programming (Clojure preferred but not required) 
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and services, relational databases, message brokers (RabbitMQ/Kafka), and job schedulers 
• Ability to write detailed technical specifications and documentation 
• Proven leadership in project management, technical execution and mentorship 
• Development-first mindset, with most of your time spent coding 
• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience in a related field

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Job Description

• Lead and manage the daily operations of a mr price money cellular store to ensure that the overall objectives, 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 store.
• 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.
• Authorise write offs, breakages, recalls, OBF (out of box failures), cellular repairs 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. This may include:- In-store marketing, competitor shopping. Drive credit, Insurance, Mobile and Cellular performance to achieve the agreed budget                         

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.

Innovation:

• Ensure implementation of Innovation initiatives from Head Office (Mpos, MRP Empower, E-docs and Money Hub) to delight our customers and improve in-store processes in a more efficient manner.                                                                                                                                                                                         

Qualifications

• NQF level 4 (Grade 12) or equivalent
• 3 years' experience in a store management position
• Sales & service management, budgeting, computer literacy, communication skills
• Retail trade, brand, customer service, cellular, mobile, new accounts, and insurance product understanding  

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Job Description

• Lead and manage the daily operations of a mr price money cellular store to ensure that the overall objectives, 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 store.
• 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.
• Authorise write offs, breakages, recalls, OBF (out of box failures), cellular repairs 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. This may include:- In-store marketing, competitor shopping. Drive credit, Insurance, Mobile and Cellular performance to achieve the agreed budget                         

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.

Innovation:

• Ensure implementation of Innovation initiatives from Head Office (Mpos, MRP Empower, E-docs and Money Hub) to delight our customers and improve in-store processes in a more efficient manner.                                                                                                                                                                                         

Qualifications

• NQF level 4 (Grade 12) or equivalent
• 3 years' experience in a store management position
• Sales & service management, budgeting, computer literacy, communication skills
• Retail trade, brand, customer service, cellular, mobile, new accounts, and insurance product understanding  

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Job Description

• We have a requirement for a new Business Analyst within our Finance technology team.
• Be part of dynamic and challenging projects that form part of exciting business transformation for our group!

Responsibilities

• Initiate analysis workshops that utilise best practice techniques to encourage contributors to 'think out of the box' and define systems and processes that will enable the business to progress in line with strategy, demonstrating consistently high quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills.
• Strong ability to elicit and articulate business benefits and benefits realisation
• Analyse alternative solutions and make recommendations
• Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods and tools
• Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes
• Produce detailed Process Design and Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business staff, including senior stakeholders, at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change.
• Support all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release.

Qualifications

• Relevant IT or Business Degree/ Diploma
• 3 years’ experience as Business Analyst or relevant business experience in finance processes.
• Demonstrated experience of assessing the costs and benefits of potential changes to business processes
• Knowledge of the Retail sector and broad understanding of traditional and new technologies used in a retail and online environments is desirable
• The type of person who will ask the right questions and probe where needed.
• Self managed
• Able to generate enthusiasm amongst team members whilst innovating change
• Ability to understand, define and document business requirements in a clear manner that is relevant to current or proposed solutions
• Inquisitive and progressive mind set leading to the generation of new and different ideas 
• Ability to deal with stressful situations logically and calmly and see them through to a solution