Jobs Career Advice Post Job
X

Send this job to a friend

X

Did you notice an error or suspect this job is scam? Tell us.

  • Posted: Nov 18, 2022
    Deadline: Not specified
    • @gmail.com
    • @yahoo.com
    • @outlook.com
  • Yuppiechef was founded in 2006 by two great friends and is now one of South Africa’s most celebrated online retailers with its sights set on international expansion. We deliver the world’s best kitchen and home products to eight countries and offer that service free of charge in South Africa. Yuppiechef is on a mission to bring people together through th...
    Read more about this company

     

    Merchandise Buyer - Kitchenware

    Who we’re looking for

    We’re looking for a full-time Merchandise Buyer Your key objectives as a Buyer would be to build a balanced assortment of merchandise which appeals to our customer and ensures maximum profit for your department is achieved.

    What your role looks like

    Reporting into Merchandising Manager, this high-paced role requires your high energy levels and eye for product to develop a product strategy that will ensure your company gains maximum profitability. Determine the product strategy for your department for the season. You will negotiate with suppliers on aspects of price, listing requirements, seasonal paid marketing initiatives, fabrication, and delivery dates. You will also collaborate with other functional areas such as Web team, Marketing, Resourcing and Visual Merchandising and supply chain to enable you to meet your portfolio objectives

    Who you’ll be working with

    You will be working closely with Buyers Assistants/Listing specialists and Planners. Our merchandise department is made up of 3 departments including Sourcing, Marketing, Visual/Retail Merchandising. You will interact across all 3 with direct focus on the buying of our Kitchenware categories. 

    Who you are

    You are an experienced Merchandise Buyer with a proven track record in delivering strong sales results. You are dynamic and open to working in a fast-paced unstructured and collaborative environment. You have a love for product, trends and fashion while innovation drives you! You are excited about e-commerce and retail. You are a good communicator (both in-person and asynchronously over email or chat), work well both autonomously and collaboratively, and enjoy honing your technical skills.

    People would also describe you as:

    • Authentic
    • Passionate
    • Creative
    • Committed
    • Disciplined
    • Calm and confident
    • Conscientious 
    • Observant

    What experience and skills you need for the role

    Experience:

    • Relevant degree or diploma (Interior Design, Retail Business Management, Textile, Consumer Science)
    • 3-5 years buying experience 
    • Knowledge of merchandise systems/ applications
    • Textile & fabrication knowledge
    • Strong verbal and written communication including negotiation skills
    • Intermediate to advanced level of proficiency in MS Office
    • Creative inclination
    • Able to work well under pressure
    • Passionate about homeware 
    • Experience with pattern and design (advantageous) 
    • Driver’s license (advantageous)  
    • All applicants must be fully vaccinated at the time of application or if necessary undertake, to receive a second vaccination in accordance with Company policy, before permanent employment is confirmed.

    Environment, gear, pay and benefits

    Gear you’ll use:

    • A Macbook
    • Various online packages, reporting tools and dashboards


    Environment:

    For the time being — as we navigate the pandemic — our team varies between working remotely and being in the office or a combination of both. You will need your own stable, high-speed internet connection for the days you work from home. And you will need to spend a few days in the office, when appropriate, to learn from your teammates and when safe, in-person collaboration is more suitable. When you are in our HQ offices in Westlake, you’ll find…

    • A fully-equipped, communal kitchen where you can use all the tools we sell
    • A fully-stocked coffee stations where you can hone your barista skills
    • Parking available

    Pay and Benefits:

    • We pay competitive, market-related salaries based on skills and experience, and profit share based on the company's performance

    Your salary is based on a “Total Cost To Company” model and includes:

    • Medical Aid (Discovery) contributions
    • Group Life Cover
    • Retirement Annuity
    • Employee Assistance programme
    • 17 Days Paid Annual Leave increasing to 20 days with length of service

    go to method of application »

    Financial Manager

    Who we’re looking for

    We’re looking for a Financial Manager to join our super-efficient Finance Team. If you’re looking for a role where you’ll work closely with the Commercial Director and have opportunities to liaise and collaborate with senior leadership team members and other colleagues as well as hone your leadership skills then this may be the role for you.

    What your role looks like

    • Review and analysis of monthly reporting packs and budgets
    • Interact with auditors to provide required support for group and subsidiary audits
    • Present a consolidated view of Yuppiechef's financial performance (monthly reporting pack)
    • Prepare Half and Year-end analyst packs and monthly board reports
    • Offer insight into business performance while influencing and supporting business planning, forecasting and budgeting processes of the group
    • Provide financial advice by studying operational issues, applying financial principles and practices, and developing recommendations
    • Reviews and recommends modifications to accounting systems and procedures
    • Prepare 5-Year Projections and Forecasting Analysis
    • Assisting in the preparation of interim and year-end statutory reporting
    • Ensures financial records are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures
    • Assist in reporting system templates and report changes and finance improvement projects
    • Complete monthly and ad hoc information for external/internal stakeholders
    • Leadership and ownership of the finance teams
    • Ensuring operational delivery of the finance team is maintained and managed
    • Variance analysis for GP and operating expenses to understand movements within the month

    Who you are

    Besides having the necessary talent and experience for the role, we are looking for a teammate with proven management skills and excellent communication skills. This role is for someone who thrives when leading a team that requires collaboration and cohesion without a dictatorial approach. You can dive into the detail and zoom out to see the bigger picture.

    What experience and skills you need for the role

    Experience:

    • 3 -5 yrs financial management experience
    • Previous financial manager experience in a retail environment advantageous

    Qualifications:

    • Required: Successfully completed a degree with a Finance or Economics focus
    • Advantageous: Registered CA(SA)

    Skills:

    • Organized
    • Detail-oriented 
    • Leadership skills 
    • Good communicator
    • Strong level of self-management and motivation 

    Environment, gear, pay and benefits

    Gear you’ll use:

    • A Macbook
    • Various online packages, reporting tools and dashboards


    Environment:

    For the time being — as we navigate the pandemic — our team varies between working remotely and being in the office or a combination of both. You will need your own stable, high-speed internet connection for the days you work from home. And you will need to spend a few days in the office, when appropriate, to learn from your teammates and when safe, in-person collaboration is more suitable. When you are in our HQ offices in Westlake, you’ll find…

    • A fully-equipped, communal kitchen where you can use all the tools we sell
    • A fully-stocked coffee station where you can hone your barista skills
    • Parking available

    Pay and Benefits:

    • We pay competitive, market-related salaries based on skills and experience, and profit share based on the company's performance

    Your salary is based on a “Total Cost To Company” model and includes:

    • Medical Aid (Discovery) contributions
    • Group Life Cover
    • Retirement Annuity
    • Employee Assistance programme
    • 17 Days Paid Annual Leave increasing to 20 days with length of service

    If this sounds like an ideal role for you,  apply and we could be chatting soon. 

    go to method of application »

    Head of People

    Who we’re looking for

    We’re looking for a senior Human Resources professional to join our business leadership team. 

    What your role looks like

    Of all our company values at Yuppiechef,  People and Team sit at the heart of what we do.  We are looking for a strong and like-minded leader who will guide our People team in a period of growth,  ensuring that our culture and people value chain supports and aligns with our business strategy.  Reporting into our Managing Director and as a key member of our leadership team,  this role is centered around connection, communication and development. 

    You will play a key role in our executive team and will be able to translate the business strategy into a practical HR strategy. You will lead a team of HR specialists as we attract, retain, develop and reward our teams in a fast-paced and inspirational environment.  Your experience in people-centric environments will be valuable as you expand the ability of our brand to be loved by both customer and employee alike. 

    Who you are

    You have built your career in industries and experiences that have positively shaped the way people look at their contributions to an organisation.  You have a solid understanding of Human Resources (8 -10 years partnering at a management level) and have elevated that experience to include at least 3 years in a Senior Management role.  You are astute in people centered strategy and development as well as execution thereof. You are a strong and empathetic leader who thrives when guiding others through change. 

    What you will be responsible for

    As you lead the People team,  you will be responsible for 

    • Being an active member of the senior leadership team, guiding business decision-making in support of the People strategy that you will develop
    • Ensuring that our Talent Management and organisational design is optimally structured to ensure our people can work effectively and efficiently
    • Guide our Talent team as we build the right teams for our business ensuring transformation and growth is in constant focus. 
    • Elevating our employee value proposition through innovative changes, allowing us to attract and retain key talent in our business. 
    • Act as a key business partner in the organisation, ensuring changes are researched, analysed and ultimately implemented in seamless ways. 

    What experience and skills you need for the role

    The university of life teaches us many things, we would like you to have had rich and varied experiences including 

    • Working experiences where your business understanding and knowledge of People strategies have impacted business performance
    • Ability to translate business goals into actionable people-centric process 
    • Utilising your robust organisational design and leadership skills 
    • Strong ability to influence and build positive, collaborative relationships 
    • Demonstrable skill in leading and inspiring teams 
    • Effectively acting as a coach to a HR team and other business partners
    • Developing innovative approaches to enhance employee experience
    • Thorough understanding of Labour Legislation and HR Operations 
    • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
    • Empirical knowledge of employee life-cycle strategies 

    The suitable candidate should have supplemented life experience with a

    • Degree in Human Resource Management/Industrial Psychology or other relevant degree
    • Postgraduate, business-related degree would be advantageous

    You would describe yourself as 

    • A confident and inclusive communicator and facilitator of communication
    • A team-focused, empathetic leader
    • Emotionally resilient
    • Having strong EQ 
    • A proactive forward thinker 
    • A life long learner 
    • A connector
    • Passionate about seeing people grow and thrive 

    Environment, gear, pay and benefits

    Gear you’ll use:

    • A Macbook
    • Various online packages, reporting tools and dashboards


    Environment:

    We are based at our Westlake headquarters and are primarily an in-office and in person team. We value the connections made in person and believe you can’t beat a face-to-face catch over a good cup of coffee. 
    In our office you will find, 

    • An equipped, communal kitchen where you can use some of the tools we sell
    • A fully-stocked coffee stations where you can hone your barista skills
    • Monthly pizza Fridays 
    • Parking available

    Pay and Benefits:

    • We pay competitive, market-related salaries based on skills and experience, and profit share based on the company's performance

    Your salary is based on a “Total Cost To Company” model and includes:

    • Medical Aid (Discovery) contributions
    • Group Life Cover
    • Retirement Annuity
    • Employee Assistance programme
    • 17 Days Paid Annual Leave increasing to 20 days with length of service

    go to method of application »

    E-commerce Photo Retoucher and Editor

    Who we are and who we’re looking for

    Yuppiechef is South Africa's premier kitchen and homeware store. Based in Westlake, Cape Town with retail stores in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban, we see ourselves as helping people find more moments of joy in their homes — through products that make daily life more comfortable, more innovative and more beautiful. And we do it through our omnichannel shopping experience, providing our world-class service to our customers both in our stores and online.

    High quality product content on our website is a key component of creating a seamless shopping experience for our customers — helping them make more informed decisions and inspiring them with well-written copy, accurate specs and beautiful visuals.

    We’re looking for a full-time E-commerce Photo Retoucher and Editor to add capacity to our in-house photography team,  help us make our product content better and get products listed on our site faster.

    What your role looks like

    Taking direction from our E-commerce Content Team Manager, you’ll spend the bulk of your time assisting in vetting, editing and uploading product photographs to our website and content platforms and maintaining our photographic archives. Practically, this looks like:

    • Editing, retouching, deep-etching and cropping product images — to Yuppiechef’s high quality standards and delivered on deadline
    • Uploading product images for new product listings with speed and accuracy
    • From time to time creating, optimising and uploading product images for custom landing pages
    • Ensuring our digital photography archive is up to date and organised according to strict conventions

    Who you’ll be working with

    You will be working alongside other in-house photographers and image editors in our Content Team. We style, photograph and edit everything in-house, by grafting hard, collaborating, communicating openly and constantly, moving on ideas fairly quickly, and hitting deadlines. At times it comes with pressure, but we all love what it is we do and have a lot of fun while doing it. We’re also into things like pets, gin, coffee, series and cake (basically any and all baked goods).

    Who you are

    Besides having the necessary talent and experience for the role, we’re looking for someone who is, above all else, eager to learn, inwardly driven, and cares about the details. You are a good communicator (both in-person and asynchronously over email or chat), work well both autonomously and collaboratively, and enjoy honing your technical skills. People would also describe you as:

    • Efficient
    • Accurate
    • Disciplined
    • Observant
    • Perfectionist

    What experience and skills you need for the role

    Experience:

    • Required: 6 months to 1 year editing photographs with time pressure
    • Advantageous: 1 to 2 years editing photographs in a professional studio setting or working for in a similar role for an e-commerce retailer

    Qualifications:

    • Required: A solid portfolio and that demonstrates what your skill levels is
    • Advantageous: If you do happen to have a tertiary qualification (in photography, design or arts) or accreditation, that would advantageous

    Skills:

    Technical skills:

    • Solid skills in editing and manipulating images in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom
    • A base understanding of photographic concepts

    Personal skills:

    • A strong visual vocabulary
    • Excellent verbal and written skills (English)
    • An ability to manage your own time and deliverables

    Environment, gear, pay and benefits

    Gear you’ll use:

    • A Macbook
    • Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

    Environment:

    • We are a predominantly in-person, in-office team. Most of your time will be spent at our HQ offices in Westlake, but you’ll have some flexibility in this.
    • On the days you work from home or remotely, you will need your own stable, high-speed internet connection and a suitable workspace setup. 
    • When you are in the HQ office, you’ll find…
    • A fully-equipped, communal kitchen with some pretty neat tools that we sell
    • A fully-stocked coffee stations where you can hone your barista skills
    • Parking available

    Pay and Benefits:

    • We pay competitive, market-related salaries based on skills and experience, and profit share based on the company's performance

    Your salary is based on a “Total Cost To Company” model and includes:

    • Medical Aid (Discovery) contributions
    • Group Life Cover
    • Retirement Annuity
    • Employee Assistance programme
    • 17 Days Paid Annual Leave increasing to 20 days with length of service

    go to method of application »

    Junior E-commerce Product Content Copywriter

    Who we are and who we’re looking for

    Yuppiechef is South Africa's premier kitchen and homeware store. Based in Westlake, Cape Town with retail stores in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban, we see ourselves as helping people find more moments of joy in their homes — through products that make daily life more comfortable, more innovative and more beautiful. And we do it through our omnichannel shopping experience, providing our world-class service to our customers both in our stores and online.

    High quality product content on our website is a key component of creating a seamless shopping experience for our customers — helping them make more informed decisions and inspiring them with well-written copy, accurate specs and beautiful visuals.

    We’re looking for a full-time Junior E-commerce Product Content Copywriter to join our in-house Content Team. If you’re looking for a role where you’ll have opportunities to learn from an experienced team and work closely with seasoned copywriters and e-commerce content creators, then this may be the role for you.

    What your role looks like

    Taking direction from our E-commerce Content Team Manager, you’ll spend the bulk of your time writing and editing high-quality product descriptions and specs for product pages.

    As part of your role, you will also be responsible for:

    • Making sure that we have all the content we need to list a new product to Yuppiechef's high standards.
    • Assisting in managing and trafficking our inbound product reviews — an area of the customer experience we value highly, and from which we learn a great deal.
    • Making existing product pages better, by finding and adding any missing information.
    • Occasionally assisting in proactive category and brand management tasks by researching and developing content and filterable features for them.

    In eac of these activities, you will have continuous opportunities to learn about our range of products, how to sell them online and what makes a good online shopping experience.

    Who you’ll be working with

    You will be working alongside our Content Editors and our Photography team. We write all our product copy, and style, photograph and edit everything in-house, by grafting hard, collaborating, communicating openly and constantly, moving on ideas fairly quickly, and hitting deadlines. At times it comes with pressure, but we all love what we do and have a lot of fun while doing it. We’re also into things like pets, gin, coffee, series and cake (basically any and all baked goods).

    Who you are

    You’re likely finding your feet in the copywriting world and looking to expand your skill set to different industries. Besides having the necessary talent and experience for the role, with a portfolio to match, we’re looking for someone who is, above all else, eager to learn and inwardly driven. You are a good communicator (both in-person and asynchronously over email or chat), work well both autonomously and collaboratively, and enjoy honing your technical skills. People would also describe you as:

    • Accurate
    • Efficient
    • Observant
    • Disciplined
    • Calm and confident

    What experience and skills you need for the role

    Experience:

    • Required: At least two years experience writing copy professionally — e.g. working for a newspaper, magazine or online publication with high readership; or agency environment
    • Advantageous: At least two years working for another e-commerce retailer in a similar role.

    Qualifications:

    • Required: Relevant work experience writing copy and doing content research, and having evidence of this in the form of a portfolio of publicly published work
    • Advantageous: An under-graduate (bachelor’s) degree in English, copywriting or journalism, or something similar (marketing or communication)

    Skills:

    Technical skills:

    • Excellent copywriting skills
    • An ability to research and make sense of product content and specs

    Personal skills:

    • Excellent verbal and written skills (English)
    • An ability to manage your own time and deliverables

    Environment, gear, pay and benefits

    Gear you’ll use:

    • A Macbook
    • Various online packages, reporting tools and dashboards


    Environment:

    • We are a predominantly in-person, in-office team. Most of your time will be spent at our HQ offices in Westlake, but you’ll have some flexibility in this.
    • On the days you work from home or remotely, you will need your own stable, high-speed internet connection and a suitable workspace setup. 
    • When you are in the HQ office, you’ll find…
    • A fully-equipped, communal kitchen with some pretty neat tools that we sell
    • A fully-stocked coffee stations where you can hone your barista skills
    • Parking available

    Pay and Benefits:

    • We pay competitive, market-related salaries based on skills and experience, and profit share based on the company's performance

    Your salary is based on a “Total Cost To Company” model and includes:

    • Medical Aid (Discovery) contributions
    • Group Life Cover
    • Retirement Annuity
    • Employee Assistance programme
    • 17 Days Paid Annual Leave increasing to 20 days with length of service

    go to method of application »

    Mid-level Front-end UI Developer

    What your role looks like

    Taking direction from our Developer Manager and Product Design Manager, as a Mid-level Front-end UI Developer, you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining user interfaces (UI) layouts, components and flows for our website, apps and in-house tech. The work you do will be on “the front of the front-end”.

    Practically, the role entails:

    Building and maintaining highly flexible and responsive UI layouts and components using HTML, CSS and presentational Javascript at scale:

    • Writing semantic HTML markup with a strong focus on accessibility, in order to make experiences that are friendly to browsers, people who browse the internet differently (with assistive technologies), and search engines (SEO)
    • Writing resilient, performant CSS with a focus on modularity, flexibility, compatibility, and extensibility
    • Writing simple, presentational JavaScript that primarily manipulates objects in the DOM (for the purpose of prototypes and demos)
    • Ensuring design consistency across all of our software products
    • Working with UI Designers to maintain and document our component library
    • Working with “back-of-the-front-end” developers to ensure the front-end code is compatible with back-end code, services, APIs, and other technology architecture
    • Testing your code across browsers and devices to ensure our UIs are functional and on a never-ending stream of desktops, mobile phones, tablets, and other web-enabled devices
    • Optimising the performance of front-end code in order to create lightweight, fast-loading, snappy, jank-free experiences

    Who you are

    Besides having the necessary talent and experience for the role, we’re looking for someone who is, above all else, inwardly driven and who comes alive when the work you’ve done makes a difference to an actual person — whether making it easy for developers to do their best work or a customer achieving something through a UI component you built. 

    You like the idea of continually building upon your successes and learning from your mistakes, and the idea of crafting a product over time excites you. For you, working on complex HTML and CSS layouts for hours feels like minutes and you have fun figuring out how to make interfaces better — more usable, more performant and more future-proof.

    You are an excellent communicator (both in-person and asynchronously over email or chat), and work well both autonomously and collaboratively. People would also describe you as:

    • Accurate
    • Adaptable
    • Calm and confident
    • Innovative
    • Persistent

    What experience and skills you need for the role

    Experience:

    • Required: At least 3 years experience developing UIs for web and mobile applications for real customers, either freelance or in an agency setting

    Advantageous:

    • Working at an e-commerce retailer in a similar role
    • Or working on a large SaaS (Software As A Service) product

    Qualifications:

    Required:

    • An excellent UI development portfolio spanning across web and mobile applications

    Advantageous: 

    • A Github repository showing your uncompiled process and inner workings
    • An under-graduate (bachelor’s) degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, User Experience Design or similar would be advantageous

    Skills:

    Required:

    • Able to write semantic, accessible HTML at scale
    • Able to write efficient, highly-scalable, modern CSS using the Sass preprocessor
    • Able to use Github or similar version control software
    • A solid understanding of accessibility principles
    • A solid understanding of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) principles
    • A solid understanding of image and webfont optimisation techniques

    Advantageous:

    • A good understanding of UX (User Experience) principles
    • UI design skills and able to use Adobe Photoshop, XD, Figma or similar

    Who you’ll be working with

    You’ll be working in our development team, reporting to our Developer Manager, and working closely with our Product Managers and Front-end Developers. We design and build all our tech in-house, by grafting hard, collaborating, communicating openly and constantly, moving on ideas fairly quickly, and hitting deadlines. At times it comes with pressure, but we all love what we do and have a lot of fun while doing it. We’re also into things like pets, gin, coffee, series and board games and gaming, trail running and climbing.

    Environment, gear, pay and benefits

    Gear you’ll use:

    • A Macbook
    • Various online packages, reporting tools and dashboards


    Environment:

    • We are a predominantly in-person, in-office team. Most of your time will be spent at our HQ offices in Westlake, but you’ll have some flexibility in this.
    • On the days you work from home or remotely, you will need your own stable, high-speed internet connection and a suitable workspace setup. 
    • When you are in the HQ office, you’ll find…
    • A fully-equipped, communal kitchen with some pretty neat tools that we sell
    • A fully-stocked coffee stations where you can hone your barista skills
    • Parking available

    Pay and Benefits:

    • We pay competitive, market-related salaries based on skills and experience, and profit share based on the company's performance

    Your salary is based on a “Total Cost To Company” model and includes:

    • Medical Aid (Discovery) contributions
    • Group Life Cover
    • Retirement Annuity
    • Employee Assistance programme
    • 17 Days Paid Annual Leave increasing to 20 days with length of service

    Method of Application

    Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.

  • Send your application

    View All Vacancies at Yuppiechef Back To Home

Subscribe to Job Alert

 

Join our happy subscribers

 
 
Send your application through

GmailGmail YahoomailYahoomail