Multiple Vacancies at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

• The Specialist SCP Optimisation is responsible to identify, drive an implement operational and value chain improvement opportunities within the operational fresh supply chain planning environment. The role works alongside operational teams to identify opportunities to improve and standardise ways of work and also ensure the effective implementation of enhancements with lowest business risk. The role works with cross-functional teams and project manage identified projects to ensure delivery of solutions within agreed timelines

Minimum requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, or related field
• 2 - 3 years Supply Chain Planning Project Management & Continuous Improvement experience

Competencies

• Analysis
• Conceptual Thinking
• Judgement & Decision Making
• Drive
• Flexibility
• Networking & Liaison
• Organisational Awareness
• Influencing

Operational Experience

• Have a strategic mind-set
• Understanding the business strategy and how it is executed within operational teams
• Analytical and Investigative nature
• Understand the impact of IT, Logistics, Commercial and other stakeholders’ strategy on the Supply Chain Planning operations

Project Management

• Prioritise projects based on biggest impact/benefit on operational KPIs
• Manage project scope, deliverables stakeholders and timelines and ensure delivery of tasks within agreed due dates
• Measure project implementation and adoption rates
• Stay abreast of the latest developments and best practices in the industry and test new systems and new system functionality
• Manage the implementation of new developments and systems in the Supply Chain planning space

Business process analysis and optimisation

• Focus on business process improvement and standardisation within the operational environment
• Design and create tools and processes that will improve operational execution and save time
• Work with the Supply Chain planning teams to define business requirements for tested, finalised and prioritised system or reporting solutions
• Design system and off system solutions for business processes
• Take ownership of automated system or reporting solution development, training and implementation
• Understand current reporting system and design or enhance reports as required by operational team and facilitate their development with BI

Manage IT Development Cycle

• Align business requirements to business strategic drivers
• Prioritise business requirements and maintain a development roadmap signed off by operational team
• Communicate the business requirements to IT in the form of a business requirement document. (BRD)
• Preform user acceptance testing on IT solutions and sign off solutions on behalf of business
• Create a roll out or pilot plan for the implementation of the new development that included stakeholder communications, training and identified and managed risks to the business
• Post implementation report on the key success factors of the development

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work alongside operational teams to define operational challenges and proposed improvements initiatives to address these
• Work alongside operational teams to create user friendly solutions that will improve operational execution and save time
• Ensure the effective implementation of enhancements, using methods with lowest business risk

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Minimum requirements

• Hospitality / Marketing / Retail Management Degree
• Driver's license Essential
• Unemployed candidates ready to embark on an exciting career adventure with Pick n Pay
• South African citizen with valid ID documentation
• Ability to travel between stores for the duration of the program

Closing date: 23 August 2024

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To monitor and ensure functional continuity of all systems in warehouse

Minimum requirements

• IT related qualification
• 3 - 4 years experience in a Systems Controller position or similar
• High level SAP experience
• Experience in delivering and writing training material, preferably in an IT context
• Experience in the Distribution/Logistics industry

Competencies

• Have a strong warehouse presence and be approachable, self-motivated and organised
• Strong analytical skills
• Planning and organizing skills
• Time management
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Computer Literacy

Key responsibilities

• To ensure that all system created tasks are accessible to warehouse staff
• Report any system related discrepancies and investigation thereof
• Monitor the skipping of tasks or any human action that may interfere with the productivity of the operation
• Create awareness and give managers and staff insight into why things are occurring to assist them in their own continuous improvement
• Respond to all SAP queries or complaints from warehouse staff in a timely manner
• Highlight any systematic errors that may have hindered performance on a given shift
• Report and keep operations honest on issues on the ECG Monitor
• Perform UAT testing of new system enhancements
• Be pro-active in resolving operational issues by driving continuous improvements where bottle-necks occur in operations

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To manage the Reporting, Budgeting and Forecast functions for the Group
Minimum requirements

• CA (SA) 
• 1 – 3 years’ post qualification experience
• Budget, planning and forecast experience
• Management accounting experience advantageous
• Financial and tax regulatory experience advantageous
• PowerPoint experience
• Microsoft Excel intermediate
• SAP / BPC / BPP advantageous

Competencies

Core competencies

• Highly motivated, results orientated and self-directed individual
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to present ideas in a business-friendly, concise and easily comprehensible manner
• Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Strong customer service presence, collaboration, negotiation, communication, organisation, people management and conflict resolution skills
• Pro-active approach to implementation of changes

Behavioral competencies

• Strong sense of accountability and operational excellence
• Well organised with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent planning and time management skills
• People Orientation

Key responsibilities

• Preparation, review and analysis of: management reporting information, budget and forecasting requirements, and turnover and operational dashboard reporting
• Responsible for preparation of presentations for key internal management meetings relating to financial performance and reporting requirements
• Variance reporting, trend analysis, reviews and detailed investigations
• Ensure compliance with all statutory requirements relating to financial control in income statement and balance sheet reporting and investigate financial control weaknesses
• Collaborate with the other finance department managers to support overall goals and objectives
• Review, assess, streamline and enhance existing processes to ensure on time delivery
• Report development, ensuring quick turnaround for operational reporting needs in line with changes required by the dynamic business environment
• Responsible for maintenance of profit centre (PC) and chart of accounts hierarchy as well as BPC master data dimensions to ensure that it is in line with reporting needs
• Key support for the implementation of BPC financial system, including system and report testing
• Responsible for ad-hoc financial analysis, special projects, and other similar or related duties

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• To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage. Ensures that standards, processes
• and policies are adhered to.
• NQF 3 Bakery qualification
• 2- 4 years' experience as a Baker / Bakery Supervisor/ Manager.

Competencies

• Achieving results through others
• Plan, organize and follow up on activities and plans
• Adhere to standards and policies
• Customer Orientation
• Communication skills – clearly conveying message and actively listening
• Business mindedness
• Bakery Skills

Production Planning

Merchandising Management

• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise
• Executes plano guide 100%
• Handles product as per SOP
• Ensures products are produced according to recipe specifications
• Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time
• Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales
• opportunities
• 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
• 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 products, 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 noncompliance
• 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 PID’s are counted correctly as per the National P & L schedule.

Closing date: 30 August 2024

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Accountable for the Inventory of both Perishables and Groceries DC’s for KZN DC's
Minimum requirements

• 3 year Diploma  / equivalent qualification in Finance and Accounting or Logistics
• 2 years experience in DC Inventory
• 2 years plus in managing a team
• Exposure to warehousing/logistic environment
• Experience with Functionally Outsourced Partners
• Work independently and deadline driven

Competencies

• Analytical thinking
• Problem solving
• Strong sense of accountability
• Be able to take initiative and work independently
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to liaise with management, customers and suppliers
• Commercial and Financial acumen

Key responsibilities

• Managing Inventory team
• Key member of the KZN DC leadership team
• Prepares weekly expense, claims and inventory reporting
• Weekly insight to expenses, shortages, claims and exposures
• Calculation and approval of daily staffing requirements
• Third party labour reporting and analysis
• Control and manage ZIDF, ZIDP, ZZDF
• Providing support to the DC management to assist with the management of operational financial risk for the distribution centre
• Ensure compliance with financial and operational policies of the company
• Management and planning of cyclical counting and adoc stocktakes requests to ensure inventory accuracy and integrity
• Monitoring  and Clearing DC of DC, TCC,TCD & STCD SIT and cross Doc SLocs
• Management of DC vendor returns and obsolete stock handling
• Tracking and investigating vendor claims
• Collating and providing statistical inventory system information in several formats to meet the business needs

Closing date: 02 September 2024

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• We have exciting opportunities for determined, focused and dedicated individuals who wish to apply for Clothing Assistant 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.
• Grade: 12 (NQF Level 4) or equivalent.
• 1 year experience in managerial position. (or previous reliever experience for a minimum of 6 months)
• 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

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.

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: 02 September 2024

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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: 02 September 2024