Vacancies at TFG (The Foschini Group)

Position Description:

Bring your love of Beauty and Fashion, your creativity and your passion to create meaningful trend right and beauty experiences for our customers. Bring your vibrancy that influences your energy that radiates and your desire to stay connected to womanhood. You are confident. You are fashionable. You are youthful. You are a creator. And at Foschini, we are too. So join our top-to-toe Beauty and Fashion community, and become a creator at Foschini.

This role will serve as a position that will provide administrative support to Buying, an opportunity to grow in a challenging environment and to apply knowledge acquired from a Beauty -related qualification. We are looking for individuals with a passion for Beauty, Beauty trends and retail, to drive the brand’s successes.

As a Buyer’s Assistant, your responsibilities will include:

•   Administratively supporting all aspects of the buying process.
•   Ensuring timeous placement of orders onto the purchasing system.
•   Maintaining a control system for the sample room.
•   Compiling, balancing and updating of spreadsheet and reports.
•   Maintaining quality assurance control and audit  of samples.
•   Building constructive and mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers.
•   All preparations prior to presentations
•   General office administration and ad hoc duties  as required by the department.

The successful candidate must:

•   Be highly organised, numerate, and have exceptional co-ordination ability
•   Have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to build and maintain working relationships incl. being helpful and assist where necessary in the department.
•   Show initiative, be pro-active, enthusiastic and self-motivated
•   Have high energy levels
•   Have the ability to multi-task and be flexible
•   Excel in a pressurised environment
•   Have a problem-solving approach to work
•   Able to work with a large workload and remain efficient
•   Must be able to work with a team
•   Must possess a positive attitude
•   Have a minimum of a Matric Qualification
•   Have a working knowledge of Ms Word and Excel (PMM/Internal systems knowledge would be advantageous)
•   Previous experience as a Buyer's Assistant is required

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Position Description:

The Store is in need of achievement-orientated Store Manager with excellent customer service and people management skills. These positions require retail experience, a flair for visual merchandising and a good head for figures and administration

Responsibilities:

• Driving turnover to ensure achievement of targets
• Controlling expenses
• Managing stock losses to ensure shrinkage is in line with the Company standard
• People management, including recruitment, development of staff, employee relations, performance management
• Executing in-store merchandising strategy and standards
• Ensure customer satisfaction by executing our customer service strategy and fulfilling the demands of our customers

Requirements:

• Figure and admin orientated
• Organised and thorough
• An excellent leader and business manager
• Profit and turnover driven
• Able to manage risk within the store
• Excellent customer service orientation
• Have the ability to learn quickly
• A relevant qualification would be advantageous

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Position Description:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Admin Controller 40HR. This store is in need of achievement-orientated person with excellent customer service and people management skills. The Admin controllers will provide admin support to their store, by assisting the Store Manager with reporting and stock management. This role is perfect for individuals who are passionate about retail and enjoys process driven duties, which require attention to detail.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Assisting the Store manager with Stock take & store administration
• Monitor and analyse stock movement within the store
• Implement risk management procedures, which mitigate stock losses and Shrinkage.
• Ensure compliance of all administration, systems and reporting procedures
• Extracting store report to analyse store turnover and stock performance
• understand and present information to Store manager
• Organise and maintain in store filing systems
• Monitor and controller cash or transactional activities to ensure process is followed 
• Uphold in store safety and security procedures.
• Process Customer transactions via active retail system (POS)
• Identifying Customer needs through professional engagement and communication.
• Establish Customer loyalty, by promoting cash reward programs.
• Take initiative to improve Customer experience and satisfaction.
• Adhere to visual Merchandising principles and follow housekeeping procedures
• Continuously take on opportunities to develop your own selling skills and product knowledge.
• Work within a team to meet sales target and implement store objectives.
• Remain in sync with the latest fashion trends

To deliver the above, you must have the following:

• A Grade 12 qualification
• A minimum of 3 years retail or admin experience
• Able communicate in a professional manner.
• The ability to plan and organised.
• An independent operator
• Have an interest in fashion
• Good administration ability.
• A passion for excellent Customer services and sales environment 
• Be computer literate
• Have a preference to with work admin
• Be able to work under pressure.
• Be available to work shifts.