Vacancies at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Role Summary

• The Senior Manager SCP Perishables is a role and function in the Senior Supply Chain team that aims to accurately forecast and replenish Perishable and Frozen foods to all Peri distribution centres, and corporate and franchise stores nationally, in the most cost-effective way possible.
• This role is required to formulate strategies with internal and external stakeholders, including the Senior Supply Chain Team, Commercial Heads, Operating Divisions, Suppliers, and 3rd and 4th party Logistic Companies, to capitalize on all sales opportunities in stores with accurate replenishment, whilst reducing distribution costs from Suppliers to stores.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Engineering or Economics
• 8+ years planning and supply chain experience in leadership roles with 4+ years’ experience managing people

Competencies

• Analytical
• Conceptual Thinking
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Drive
• Flexibility
• Networking and Liaison
• Organisational Awareness
• Verbal and Written Communication
• Influencing
• Business Insights
• Environmental Scanning
• Ability to teach and mentor
• Relationship Building

Formulate Strategic Operating Plan

Formulate the departments strategy

• Create an annual and quarterly operating plan with key focus areas that is aligned to supply chain purpose and broader business strategy. Translate the operating plan into projects with clear, reachable deliverables, due dates, and resource allocation from teams
• Clearly define dependencies and requirements from other business divisions to reach operating plan goals. Obtain stakeholder buy-in where required
• Ensure operating plan is aligned to and supports team goals and plans
• Ensure operating plan is clearly communicated to management and lower-level execution teams with a clear understanding of priorities, required participation and next steps
• Track and report on progress of operating plan deliverables
• Revise operating plan as and when required to ensure alignment with supply chain and business goals

Team Leadership & People Development

Leadership:

• Create and implement a people plan among teams with clear, reachable goals and deliverables.
• The people plan should support a positive and motivated working environment and team culture
• Create clear direction, guidance, and support for your team to execute required responsibilities
• Create team structures that support set strategic goals, stabilised operational execution, and a productive and effective way of work
• Mentorship to develop leadership and stakeholder integration skills
• Clearly define KPIs and create IPA documents that are aligned to short term goals and KPIs

Self-Management:

• Anticipate and respond in a proactive manner to future needs that may not be obvious to others; develop plans to persuade team members to adopt a new approach to achieve maximum delivery
• Supply Chain Profitability (Vendor Income & Supply Chain Cost of Operation)

Supply Chain Cost of Operation & Efficiencies:

• Have a good understanding of value chain cost and income components and the role planning plays to influence these levers
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction and implement operational changes to reduce distribution costs without negatively impacting KPI’s (Waste KPI’s, Availability, Sales)
• Identify and highlight system, process, report, and resource requirements needed for teams to action value chain efficiencies and Vendor Income projects
• Understand department’s impact on DC workload balancing and contribute towards improved in-week order distribution
• Drive the implementation of key Vendor Income initiatives within the operational planning teams and ensure effective integration with the Vendor Income team

Supply Chain Income:

• Define and implement initiatives that will lead to Increased franchisee buy-in participation through DCs

Vendor Income:

• Understand and track vendor income targets and actual numbers
• Obtain an in-depth understanding of vendor supply chains through collaboration sessions between PnP and key vendors
• Define and drive the implementation of efficiency initiatives that will results in joint financial benefit, i.e., reduced costs and increased vendor income
• Keep track of implemented efficiencies and agreed vendor income linked to each and highlight risks where targets might not be met on time

Continuous Improvement and Standardization (Policies & Procedures)

• Work with teams to formulate strategies that will result in improved ways of work through improved processes, planning tools, reports, and system developments
• Collaborate with stakeholders to obtain buy-in and support for planned business changes
• Ensure successful implementation of new processes, tools, and reports in operational teams

Strategic sales planning and Operational Execution

• Monitor high level KPIs and highlight/investigate variances to budgeted targets
• Provide strategic input to sales plans and guide teams on decision making to improve the accuracy of forecasts
• Ensure teams know when to influence forecast and that they are using the correct tools to accurately do so

Stakeholder Integration

• Align budgets & targets with logistics and commercial
• Manager and improve vendor collaboration process
• Drive an aligned way of work between commercial, technical, CCM, NPD, marketing & planning teams
• Follow Rhythm and Integration plan signed off by commercial counterpart

Divisional Profitability

• Work with commercial and logistics teams to implement ways of work that will drive increased franchisee buy-in participation
• Optimize lug sizes to assist with distribution efficiencies whilst managing waste
• Understand the cost impact of transshipment and actively aim to optimize and reduce

Closing date: 9 July 2025

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Role Summary

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

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 12
• 2-4 years Produce 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

• Adhere to standards and policies
• Customer Orientation
• Communication skills – clearly conveying message and actively listening
• Business mindedness
• Team Player

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 standards
• 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
• Recording of Food Safety Daily Checklist

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 non compliance
• Attends monthly regional meetings - take information back to staff - responds to queries on turnover/waste
• Checks and amends Kronos scheduling
• Coaches Staff

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
• Ensure PIDs are counted correctly as per the National P&L schedule

Closing date: 11 July 2025

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Role Summary

• The Hypermarkets are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Marketing Manager to support our marketing efforts and drive customer engagement across all platforms.
• The ideal candidate will play a key role in creating and executing strategic marketing campaigns to promote our PnP Hypermarket brand, increase market share, and enhance customer awareness of our products and promotions.
• The individual will drive trade promotions, promotional activations, build a trade calendar and be responsible to execute and deliver POS and signage in stores including revamps.
• Develop, plan, and execute creative marketing campaigns to promote store promotions, new product launches, and brand awareness.
• Work closely with corporate marketing on adverts, campaigns, and Saver programmes.
• Leverage social media platforms and digital marketing tools to reach and engage target audiences effectively.
• Create and coordinate marketing materials including digital assets, signage, in-store displays, brochures, and advertisements.
• Work closely with buying teams to design marketing strategies to promotes products, increase sales and grow customer base.
• Work closely with store management teams to ensure seamless execution of marketing strategies across all Hypers locations.
• Analyze customer demographics and market data, using Living Standards Measure (LSM), to tailor campaigns according to customer needs and spending habits.
• Monitor retail trends, competitor strategies, and consumer behaviour to refine and adapt marketing efforts.
• Prepare and deliver regular reports on the performance and effectiveness of campaigns, promotions, and customer engagement initiatives.
• Collaborate with external vendors, designers, and media outlets to ensure high-quality marketing output.
• Assist in organizing and promoting in-store events and seasonal campaigns to increase foot traffic and sales.
• Ensure consistency in brand messaging and visual identity across all marketing platforms and customer touchpoints.
• Develop store profiles and trends, using sales data, smart shopper data etc.
• 3-year University degree in Marketing, Retail Management, Communications or related field
• Valid driver’s licence
• Minimum of 2–3 years of experience in retail marketing or a similar role.
• Must have working knowledge of Excel and SAP (intermediate to advanced)
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong understanding of customer segmentation
• Proficiency in using social media, email marketing tools, and digital advertising platforms.
• Solid grasp of retail operations and the ability to align marketing strategies with business goals.
• Excellent communication skills
• Analytical thinking
• Methodical/Structure work ethic plan
• Organise and follow up on activities and plan
• Attention to detail
• Numerical Reasoning
• Adhere to standards and policies
• Planning and organizing
• Business mindedness
• Verbal and written communication
• Quality control and standards
• Result driven
• Problem Solving
• Sound Administration

End Date: July 4, 2025 

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Role Summary

• Are you looking for a career in Retail?
• This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the largest supermarket chain store in South Africa and gain insight and understanding of store operations by working in various departments.
• This is a career path to become a store manager.

Minimum Requirements

• Matric/ Grade 12 (attach certified copy to application)
• Sound Numeracy skills and knowledge of retail industry
• 2- 3 years retail experience
• Must be able to pass given assessments at the required level
• Must be successful in at least 2 competency-based interviews
• Must be flexible and willing to be transferred between stores
• Must be willing to give authorization for a full credit and criminal check
• Must have a valid South African ID (attach copy to application)
• Must have a valid Driver’s license code 08 (attach certified copy of license

Competencies

• Monitor and develop other’s performance. Acknowledges good performance, confronts and corrects poor performance
• Solve new/unfamiliar problems by generating workable solutions
• Ability to identify/prioritise urgent matters and attend to them immediately
• Ability to influence confidently, firmly and fairly
• Attention to detail
• Building relationships and promote teamwork
• Be able to communicate effectively at all levels
• Results orientated

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that hygiene, housekeeping and safe working standards are maintained (floor and back-up)
• Ensure that security procedures are adhered to
• Ensure that merchandise/display standards are adhered to
• Conduct regular quality checks, ensure that stock is rotated.
• Damaged/expired stock is removed Prevent wastage/shrinkage/damages Check correct pricing e.g. labels
• Ensure that all administration is completed accurately and timeously
• Analyse, maintain and update relevant information/documentation, take required action when necessary
• Plan and implement sales promotions
• Approach and advise customers on the product, listen to customers’ requests, provide the required product or services.
• Monitor budgets and take required action
• Analyse profitability of department, make recommendations or take required actions
• Optimise stock levels e.g. always in stock, never overstocked through effective ordering
• Manage employees to ensure standards are maintained by competent, motivated employees

Closing date: 8 July 2025

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Role Summary

• Pick n Pay is looking for talented people with exceptional skills who share our values and want to join a team of experienced professionals.
• We have exciting opportunities for determined, focused and dedicated individuals who wish to apply for Clothing Store Manager position.
• Candidates need to demonstrate professional values and attitudes; and the ability to integrate acumen and technical competence with each area of the value creation process.

Minimum Requirements

• Grade: 12 (NQF Level 4) or equivalent.
• 2 years experience as an assistant manager/Related
• Computer literate – MS Outlook, Excel, Word. MS Teams/Zoom.
• Willingness to work irregular hours, including evenings and weekends and stock takes after hours
• Willingness to be moved from store to store if and when need be
• Willingness and ability to undertake physical hands-on tasks
• Complete an assessment

Competencies

• An absolute passion for the product
• Good interpersonal & communication skills
• Conscientious, attentive to detail, accurate
• Good staff management and development skills
• Sense of urgency, enthusiasm and high energy level
• Assertiveness
• Customer centric approach
• Ability to work under pressure
• Motivation, self-confidence and the use of initiative
• Team player who is results driven.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Journey:

• Customer centric approach
• Ensuring customer service standards are rigorously applied
• Attending to all customer service requests, advertising on product and services.
• Ensure that VM standards are adhered to and execution of all plans and promotions.

People Management: (Assist Store Manager with functions)

• Manage all people related aspects on an ongoing bases for staff.
• Able to deal with employee shortcomings if/when needed.
• Assist with recruitment on a store level according to company policy and procedures.
• Assist with Identify training and Development initiatives for employees.
• Assist with performance management – focus on talent management and succession planning.
• Able to lead and manage a team of employees.
• Assist with identify training initiatives and develop staff accordingly.

Daily Operations/Stock Management/Risk Management:

• Opening and locking of store in accordance with the company security procedures
• Conducting start & end of day reporting and procedures
• Conducting administration (staff scheduling & leave, invoices, pricing, costs, floats & banking, expense control, reconciliations, CDC and head office instructions etc) per company standards and procedures
• Ensuring merchandise is offloaded, captured, packed, merchandised & displayed per company policy
• Monitoring quality and controlling soilage of merchandise and taking appropriate action
• Controlling shrinkage
• Ensure that OHS standards are adhered to at all times

Sales/Promotions:

• Promoting sales to achieve budgets and monitoring sales, turnover and participation.
• Conducting promotions
• Implementation of markdowns and RTC’s

Closing date:13 July 2025

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Role Summary

• Pick n Pay is looking for talented people with exceptional skills who share our values and want to join a team of experienced professionals.
• We have exciting opportunities for determined, focused and dedicated individuals who wish to apply for Clothing Store Manager position.
• Candidates need to demonstrate professional values and attitudes; and the ability to integrate acumen and technical competence with each area of the value creation process.

Minimum Requirements

• Grade: 12 (NQF Level 4) or equivalent.
• 2 years experience as an assistant manager/Related
• Computer literate – MS Outlook, Excel, Word. MS Teams/Zoom.
• Willingness to work irregular hours, including evenings and weekends and stock takes after hours
• Willingness to be moved from store to store if and when need be
• Willingness and ability to undertake physical hands-on tasks
• Complete an assessment

Competencies

• An absolute passion for the product
• Good interpersonal & communication skills
• Conscientious, attentive to detail, accurate
• Good staff management and development skills
• Sense of urgency, enthusiasm and high energy level
• Assertiveness
• Customer centric approach
• Ability to work under pressure
• Motivation, self-confidence and the use of initiative
• Team player who is results driven.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Journey:

• Customer centric approach
• Ensuring customer service standards are rigorously applied
• Attending to all customer service requests, advertising on product and services.
• Ensure that VM standards are adhered to and execution of all plans and promotions.

People Management: (Assist Store Manager with functions)

• Manage all people related aspects on an ongoing bases for staff.
• Able to deal with employee shortcomings if/when needed.
• Assist with recruitment on a store level according to company policy and procedures.
• Assist with Identify training and Development initiatives for employees.
• Assist with performance management – focus on talent management and succession planning.
• Able to lead and manage a team of employees.
• Assist with identify training initiatives and develop staff accordingly.

Daily Operations/Stock Management/Risk Management:

• Opening and locking of store in accordance with the company security procedures
• Conducting start & end of day reporting and procedures
• Conducting administration (staff scheduling & leave, invoices, pricing, costs, floats & banking, expense control, reconciliations, CDC and head office instructions etc) per company standards and procedures
• Ensuring merchandise is offloaded, captured, packed, merchandised & displayed per company policy
• Monitoring quality and controlling soilage of merchandise and taking appropriate action
• Controlling shrinkage
• Ensure that OHS standards are adhered to at all times

Sales/Promotions:

• Promoting sales to achieve budgets and monitoring sales, turnover and participation.
• Conducting promotions
• Implementation of markdowns and RTC’s

Closing date:13 July 2025