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Support and assist the store manager in managing the daily operations of a mr price money cellular store to ensure that the overall objectives, store targets and customer service standards are met and exceeded.                   

Key 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 (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.
• Assist with authorising 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.
• Monitior, review and keep abreast of in-store product performance to provide feedback to support centre and enhance sales.
• Keep abreast of 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:

• Assist the store manager to conduct compliance checks through defined processes (e.g. admin checks, store audits, visual audits, COMO 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.                                                                                                               

Requirements

Education:
NQF level 4 (Grade 12) or equivalent.

Experience:

• 3 Years' Experience in Retail (Management Experience Advantageous).

Knowledge/ Skills:

• Understanding of Sales & Service Management.
• Budgeting Skills.
• Computer Literate.
• Good Communication Skills
• Understanding of Retail Trade.
• Brand, customer service , cellular, mobile, new accounts, and insurance product understanding          

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Mr Price is looking for a newly qualified CA (SA) to join our Finance team. If you are energetic, thrive under pressure and have excellent attention to detail, this role could be for you!                                                                                                                     

Key Responsibilities

• Your responsibilities will include preparing and updating monthly financial forecasts and financial analysis,
• Preparing half year and year end reporting packs,
• Working with auditors at critical reporting periods,
• Assisting in the preparation of the annual budget and strategy packs, preparation of monthly management accounts,
• Financial forecasting and report writing as well as assisting in any other ad hoc projects as required.                                                                                                                                            

Requirements

• Must be a qualified and registered CA(SA)
• Retail experience preferred 
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Proven people management skills
• Ability to self manage and meet deadlines
• Interest in data analysis with the ability to analyse data from various sources to extract relevant insights

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your purpose

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.                                                              

key 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.                                                               

What are the requirements?

• 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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 Looking for a new adventure in the new year?

Become part of our innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team and shape the future of our retail landscape!

what’s in it for you?

You would join an architecture team that includes experts in enterprise architecture, domain and solution architecture. We utilise industry leading technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.

We also have benefits! From the financial benefits like medical aid for you and your fam, pension fund, bonus structures & shares, to the cultural benefits like a growth & innovation culture, half day Fri-yay’s, study leave & great coffee! We have ‘em all.

This role is Durban based at our awesome HQ, we offer super flexible hours and work hybrid.

so…is it you we’re looking for?

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 7-9 years’ experience in software engineering or IT solutions development or 2-5 years experience in solutions architecture
• Thorough understanding of retail and/or supply chain business domains
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking
• Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models

how you would add value to our team?

• Grab coffee and food at our awesome canteen
• You would be that person who analyses what technologies are available and suggest, design and implement creative and pragmatic technical solutions to achieve our business goals.
• Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
• Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
• Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
• Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy           
• Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
• Be a thought leader to influence discussions and decision-making within the group
• Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers

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 Looking for a new adventure in the new year?

Become part of our innovative, forward-thinking and strategic IT architecture team and shape the future of our retail landscape!

what’s in it for you?

You would join an architecture team that includes experts in enterprise architecture, domain and solution architecture. We utilise industry leading technologies which run on-premise and in multiple cloud platforms.

We also have benefits! From the financial benefits like medical aid for you and your fam, pension fund, bonus structures & shares, to the cultural benefits like a growth & innovation culture, half day Fri-yay’s, study leave & great coffee! We have ‘em all.

This role is Durban based at our awesome HQ, we offer super flexible hours and work hybrid.

so…is it you we’re looking for?

• Thorough understanding of Omni-channel, ecommerce and retail business domains
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 7-9 years’ experience in software engineering or IT solutions development or 2-5 years experience in solutions architecture
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, analysis, system architecture design, inquisitive, methodical, analytical, critical thinking
• Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models

how you would add value to our team?

• Grab coffee and food at our awesome canteen
• You would be that person who analyses what technologies are available and suggest, design and implement creative and pragmatic technical solutions to achieve our business goals.
• Understand business strategy, priorities and processes to advise how technology can be used to achieve a business outcome by designing of one or more applications or services
• Understand how multiple applications interact with each other, advise how it should be maintained and determine how it will scale to suit future growth
• Lead your technical vision to success by providing guidance to the project management and development teams during the systems development life cycle of programming, integration, testing and deployment of solutions
• Contribute to the roadmap, conceptual models & technological frameworks of the overall mr price group technology architecture ensuring it is in line with the Group strategy           
• Form and maintain relationships with business stakeholders within your responsible domain to ensure alignment
• Be a thought leader to influence discussions and decision-making within the group
• Share best practice knowledge and mentor developers

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We have a new requirement for a Cape Town based Senior BA that will work with our Yuppiechef team on an exciting contract basis!

what are our requirements to apply?

• Based in Cape Town
• Available for a 6 month contract
• Relevant IT or Business Qualification
• 7 - 10 years’ experience in a Business Analyst role in delivering on Retail projects/building products and managing multiple stakeholders.
• Strong documentation and able communicate at various stakeholder levels.

a day in your life?

Strategy Analysis                   

• Analyse the current state of the environment
• Define the future state of the environment that we want to achieve
• Assess the risks and define a change strategy
• Responsible for keeping up to date with current and future trends and make relevant recommendations to the team                        

Planning & Monitoring            

• Define the BA approach which includes BA governance, performance improvements that need to made based on last review [i.e. lessons learnt] and any information management that needs to be adhered to
• Based on the stakeholder analysis, plan the best way of engaging with these stakeholders that gains commitment and helps them adopt the change

Elicitation and Collaboration              

• Plan the elicitation sessions that would need to be set up and define what the goals of each session should be and the type of session that would be most effective to run.
• Detail the elicitation results from these sessions and play them back to the stakeholders to validate and confirm them

Requirements Analysis, Design and Life Cycle                    

• Specify and model the requirements making sure they are at the right level of granularity and that they support the business goals
• Define solution options and compare them based on potential value and recommend a solution
• Understand what requirements map to what components or designs
• Keep requirements current throughout project lifecylcle
• Prioritise requirements based on business value and urgency
• Assess requirement changes to determine whether they should be tackled within the scope of the project
• Get approval on requirements

Solution Evaluation                

• Measure the performance of the solution using the predefined metrics in the business case
• If there are factors constraining the performance and resultant value then recommend solutions to increase this value            

Leading People                      

• Lead other Business Analysts on strategic projects
• Drive efficiencies in BA practices
• Provide guidance on business problems
• Lead complex workshops and facilitation sessions
• Coach intermediate Business Analysts