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TFG (The Foschini Group) is a South African fashion lifestyle retailer & comprises of 22 fashion forward brands.
Our range includes some of the leading fashion, home wear, sportswear, cellular and jewellery brands in the country, as well as a host of innovative financial services. TFG comprises of the following 22 exciting retail brands; @home, @homelivi...
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Key Responsibilities:
- Managing a Design & PDV team
- Manage the development process and critical path from conception to completion for textile prints graphic and garment development to align to seasonal trend and strategy.
- Manage and build strategic relationship with all stakeholders in the supply chain both internal and external.
- Work with the Suppliers both local and import to ensure that we deliver on customers’ requirement
- Collating and managing trend and buying calendars and processes governed by key international benchmarks as well as retail timelines
- Translating and researching international trends for all departments for the local market into exciting, actionable, and relevant presentations
- Presenting credible trend presentations to the buying teams across ladies', men’s, and kids' departments
- Implementing the retail test strategy
- Ensure Team Calendar is set up & maintained understanding & incorporating respective lead times on fabric shipments from various sources, product development lead times, production cycles as well as finishing for local and import.
- Managing the workflow within the team to ensure that creative strategy and product are delivered on time.
- Product developing and engineering trends into affordable styles in key-value fabrics and price points
- Fabric sourcing aligned to retail strategy
Qualifications and Experience:
- Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree is essential
- Design management experience in apparel (3+ years essential)
- Trend research and product development experience is essential
- Previous experience in clothing manufacturing would be ideal
- Integral understanding of the clothing retail Cycle and Buying Process would be ideal
- Advanced working knowledge of Photoshop skills
- Advanced working knowledge Illustrator skills
- A good working knowledge of the current computer software packages (knowledge of Excel, Word & E-mail)
Skills:
- High level of commitment, can work independently and collaboratively
- High degree of decision making
- Assertive
- Ability to self- manage
- Team player
- Excellent planning, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent Time management skills
- Good communication skills
- Good judgement and problem-solving skills
- Develop Team to improve the technical competencies required for any new product commodities.
- Manage HR Function within the Team. (Performance Management, day to day queries etc
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Responsibilities:
- Being an ambassador for our brand and offering amazing customer experience.
- Exceed customer expectations by identifying and providing them with the best possible solutions.
- Actively keeping track of sales performance against target.
- Selling a diverse product range and keeping up to date with the latest décor and fashion trends.
- Searching out opportunities for making new sales.
- Assist with replenishing of stock to ensure the store is ready for our customers at all times.
Qualifications & Experience:
Skills:
- Passionate about people is a must.
- Target driven and experience focused.
- Good verbal/ written communication skills
- The ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- The ability to work independently
- The ability to take initiative
- A high level of attention to detail
- Builds Customer Loyalty
- Customer Service Delivery
- Navigates Customer Challenges
- Negotiation & Selling
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Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Sourcing
- You will be required to lead and support strategic sourcing initiatives by providing functional expertise and guidance in tendering processes and the ultimate selection of buying channels within the category/commodity itself. Provide functional expertise to internal stakeholders to ensure that TFG has the right suppliers/vendors for current and future growth.
- Risk management – evaluate supplier risk, respond with mitigation plans, identify alternative suitable suppliers for comparative pricing.
- Identify and qualify potential new suppliers and ensure relationships with strategic and key suppliers are transparent and actively managed.
- Cost optimisation: negotiate prices of existing suppliers where applicable to ensure cost efficiencies.
- Drive and coordinate efforts to provide transparency on and deeper insights into 3rd party spend.
- Contribute to cross-functional initiatives to optimise TFG spend and knowledge.
- Sustainability: Meeting the needs of business in the most environmentally friendly, socially responsible and ethical way.
- Transformation: Expand opportunities to work with Black Owned, Exempt Micro Enterprises and Qualifying Small Enterprises
Business Partnering and Team
- Create and maintain close working relationships with internal stakeholders to understand the needs of the organization and the relevant business unit.
- Ensure key supplier relationships are managed and performance is properly monitored by the respective business partner – through the setting of KPIs, monitoring and reviewing performance cross functionally with relevant stakeholders.
- Communicate to relevant internal stakeholders the added value and results that Procurement brings to the organization (incl. monetary and non-monetary benefits). Support departments on large value and high importance procurement initiatives and tenders. Be the main point of contact and drive sourcing events which will run as frequently as the business requires.
Source to Contract and Compliance
- Ensure contracts with all relevant 3rd Parties are finalized and approved. Ensure supplier management, sourcing guidelines, obligations, and service level agreements are correctly implemented and adhered to. Manage contractual risk, 3rd Party Risk due diligence, and compliance with the relevant suppliers/vendors.
- Develop proactive commodity strategies with advanced knowledge of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
- Provide functional expertise and proven track record of implementation of category and commodity strategies.
- Develop required reporting and continuously improve processes where applicable.
- Engage with key stakeholders to understand internal needs and requirements while conducting research on market intelligence, demand intelligence, supply
- intelligence, and value chain intelligence to enhance commodity outcomes.
- Negotiate with suppliers to add value within the category and commodity space.
- Drive and manage the procurement process to an agreed contractual solution with internal and external parties such as TFG business unit members, legal representatives, logistics, and other supply chain members.
- Support, manage, and perform Supplier Performance Management activities to ensure consistent and high-quality goods, services, and engagements are managed within the category.
- Conduct tenders/sourcing events using Coupa (the company’s procurement system).
- Approve new suppliers within the category/commodity where applicable.
Requirements:
- Diploma or Degree in Procurement, Business Administration or other relevant qualification with a proven long-term experience on the job.
- Membership of relevant global and/or professional body, including accreditation, desirable.
- 3-5 years’ experience in a related field, preferably with in-depth knowledge and execution experience of supplier lifecycle management & associated risks and/or procurement processes
- Solid understanding of category management and state of the art “source-to-contract” procurement processes
- 3 years relevant Retail, e-commerce or FMCG industry experience
- Demonstrated experience in continuous improvement and simplification of complex requirements essential.
- Experience in project and process management
- Experience of conducting supplier performance management preferable.
- Demonstrated understanding of the codes of good practice – B-BBEE and evidence of commodity transformation.
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Responsibilities:
- Driving turnover to ensure the 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
Qualifications & Exprience:
- A Matric certificate.
- Minimum 3 years retail experience with a minimum of 1 year store leadership experience.
Skills:
- Builds Customer Loyalty
- Customer Service Delivery
- Customer Value Management
- Customer-Focused Approach
- Effectively Presents Solutions
- Initiates Compelling Sales Conversations
- Knows the Buying Influences
- Leverages Digital Communications with Customers
- Manages Resistance
- Managing the Sales Process
- Navigates Customer Challenges
- Negotiation & Selling
- Planning & Organizing
- Policy & procedures
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Leadership
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Responsibilities:
- Driving turnover to ensure the 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
Qualifications & Exprience:
- A Matric certificate.
- Minimum 3 years retail experience with a minimum of 1 year store leadership experience.
Skills:
- Builds Customer Loyalty
- Customer Service Delivery
- Customer Value Management
- Customer-Focused Approach
- Effectively Presents Solutions
- Initiates Compelling Sales Conversations
- Knows the Buying Influences
- Leverages Digital Communications with Customers
- Manages Resistance
- Managing the Sales Process
- Navigates Customer Challenges
- Negotiation & Selling
- Planning & Organizing
- Policy & procedures
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Leadership
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Responsibilities:
- The ability to support the store management team to provide outstanding leadership to the store team.
- Ensures the team executes operational excellence through a customer centric mindset.
- Generating high levels of motivation and commitment within the store.
- Allocate time effectively; handle multiple tasks and completing priorities.
- Provide input and manage merchandise and visual principles.
- Drive performance through the store KPI’s (e.g. turnover, rewards, new accounts, visuals. etc).
Qualification:
Skills:
- Minimum 3 years retail experience with a minimum of 1 year store leadership experience.
- High flexibility and ability to adapt to different customers and situations.
- A high sense of urgency with demonstrated ability to work independently.
- High flexibility and ability to adapt to different customers.
- An outstanding leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business.
- Ensure customer satisfaction by executing our customer service strategy and fulfilling the demands of our customers.
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Managing the Sales Process
- Customer Value Management
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Responsibilities:
- Driving turnover to ensure the 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
Qualifications & Exprience:
- A Matric certificate.
- Minimum 3 years retail experience with a minimum of 1 year store leadership experience.
Skills:
- Builds Customer Loyalty
- Customer Service Delivery
- Customer Value Management
- Customer-Focused Approach
- Effectively Presents Solutions
- Initiates Compelling Sales Conversations
- Knows the Buying Influences
- Leverages Digital Communications with Customers
- Manages Resistance
- Managing the Sales Process
- Navigates Customer Challenges
- Negotiation & Selling
- Planning & Organizing
- Policy & procedures
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Leadership
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Responsibilities:
- The ability to support the store management team to provide outstanding leadership to the store team.
- Ensures the team executes operational excellence through a customer centric mindset.
- Generating high levels of motivation and commitment within the store.
- Allocate time effectively; handle multiple tasks and completing priorities.
- Provide input and manage merchandise and visual principles.
- Drive performance through the store KPI’s (e.g. turnover, rewards, new accounts, visuals. etc).
Qualification:
Skills:
- Minimum 3 years retail experience with a minimum of 1 year store leadership experience.
- High flexibility and ability to adapt to different customers and situations.
- A high sense of urgency with demonstrated ability to work independently.
- High flexibility and ability to adapt to different customers.
- An outstanding leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business.
- Ensure customer satisfaction by executing our customer service strategy and fulfilling the demands of our customers.
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Managing the Sales Process
- Customer Value Management
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Responsibilities:
- Driving turnover to ensure the 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
Qualifications & Exprience:
- A Matric certificate.
- Minimum 3 years retail experience with a minimum of 1 year store leadership experience.
Skills:
- Builds Customer Loyalty
- Customer Service Delivery
- Customer Value Management
- Customer-Focused Approach
- Effectively Presents Solutions
- Initiates Compelling Sales Conversations
- Knows the Buying Influences
- Leverages Digital Communications with Customers
- Manages Resistance
- Managing the Sales Process
- Navigates Customer Challenges
- Negotiation & Selling
- Planning & Organizing
- Policy & procedures
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Leadership
go to method of application »
Responsibilities:
- Driving turnover to ensure the 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
Qualifications & Exprience:
- A Matric certificate.
- Minimum 3 years retail experience with a minimum of 1 year store leadership experience.
Skills:
- Builds Customer Loyalty
- Customer Service Delivery
- Customer Value Management
- Customer-Focused Approach
- Effectively Presents Solutions
- Initiates Compelling Sales Conversations
- Knows the Buying Influences
- Leverages Digital Communications with Customers
- Manages Resistance
- Managing the Sales Process
- Navigates Customer Challenges
- Negotiation & Selling
- Planning & Organizing
- Policy & procedures
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Leadership
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Responsibilities:
- Accountable for the laying, cutting, stamping and sorting of outwork on a large scale for multiple production lines
- Accountable for overseeing a department with a staff compliment of over 100 employees
- Accountable for Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling of assets and staff
- Management of constant flow of fabric
- Ensuring Caledon factory production lines are fed timeously with correct components
- Accountable for managing automated and manual cutting technology
- Responsible for planning the Cutting Room Workflow on a daily, bi weekly and 2-month plan
- Accountable to review continuous assessments relating to cost reduction initiatives: IE Waste Management
- Ensuring quality standards are met in accordance with Standard Order of Process
- Optimization of Fabric Utilization
- Accountable for the review and sign off on job reconciliations
- Maintaining Reject, Rework and Recut rate
- Employee Relations - Ensure general discipline is maintained according to TFG Policy and Procedures
- Daily reporting of absence counts to Caledon HR Department
- Ensure good housekeeping is maintained
- Ensure the department is in line with Health and Safety regulations
- Implementation of individual development plans and identifying training needs
- Attendance and coordination of daily Cutting Room team meetings
Requirements:
- 5 years + Clothing Manufacturing experience (Essential)
- Grade 12
- National Diploma or Degree in Fabric Technology or similar (Advantageous)
- Experience with style man and fast react (Advantageous)
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Management Experience (Essential)
- Experience in cost management
- Knowledge and Experience in Waste Management
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Responsibilities:
- Managing and driving activity on the online retail store in such a way that revenue meets/exceeds targets set
- Managing the online merchant team responsible for uploading all content, product and promotions to the online store
- Developing and continuously optimising the ecommerce marketing plan and leverage all channels, to drive new customers, drive new revenue and emphasise up-selling opportunities online
- Ensuring all online marketing initiatives are trackable and ladder up to overall KPIs and revenue targets
- Ensuring all online offers and campaigns are executed within allocated budget and deadline, complying with the Group direction where required
- Analysing and reporting on all online performance, campaigns and promotions
- Being data obsessed by leveraging all data sources available to use as a basis for all decisions and plans
- Using analytics to produce integrated strategy to this end ensuring a new customer rate to the sites
- Developing strong online content that specifically drives sales, via good product descriptions, video, editorial and supplier-sourced materials
- Negotiating affiliate and/or supplier marketing strategies and opportunities and coordinate with Brand to ensure cohesion and opportunities for cross leverage
- Stay current with ecommerce and online consumer and digital trends and look for opportunities to use
- Stakeholder management and on-going communication with Merchandise, Operations and the central ecommerce contact centre, logistics and supports teams [including digital suppliers and external consultants
- Managing and allocating online budget for all expenses in fiscal year, including invoicing and administration.
Qualification & Experience:
- Relevant 3 year qualification
- Up to 5 years relevant experience including ecommerce trading environment with management responsibility, preferably with a fashion lifestyle retailer
- Digital Marketing experience is also preferable – with more than 3 years managing online campaigns
- Comfortable with the use of and ability to learn new digital technologies and media tactics
- Some exposure to, or experience of, retail planning or buying in an online environment
Skills:
- Ability to interpret web analytics, tracking and reporting
- Excellent communication skills: Ability to present strategies and marketing plans; excellent written grammar and spelling
- Comfortable with the use of and ability to learn new digital technologies and media tactics
- Exceptional analytical ability
- Business acumen
- Ability to Persuade and influence stakeholders at various levels
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- Ability to work under pressure and display initiative in a deadline driven environment
- Ability to effectively problems solve and act independently when faced with complex situations
- High attention to detail
- Ability to work independently, as well as within a team
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Key outputs of the role:
- Gathering, validating & documenting requirements for tariff overlay savings:
- Extract electricity meter readings from either invoice from municipalities or usage reports from landlords.
- Obtain current tariff rates from the electricity providers
- Calculate the total electricity consumption (kwh) for each billing period
- Compare the total cost based on the tariff rates received from the service provider vs what TFG is billed for
- Submit billing and store detail to a 3rd party for billing overlay work (this involves consumption and optimal tariff verification)
- Where anomalies are identified, support the 3rd party in liaising with the property team and landlords and or municipalities in obtaining refunds on behalf of TFG
- Analyse data from 3rd party service provider and identify stores with high demand charges or inefficient usage patterns.
- Recommend actions to address issues by liaising with Stores operations
- Identifying cost saving opportunities from reducing inefficient electricity consumption:
Requirements:
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Electrical Engineering with a Project Management qualification and /or PMI certification
- 3-5 years relevant experience
- Proven proficiency in an industry recognised Project Management Methodology
- Proven hands-on experience in managing small to medium projects
- Proven experience in Retail
- Experience in remotely managing retail projects across a wide diversity of geographical locations
- Experience of managing projects in an IT desktop or infrastructure environment
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Responsibilities:
- Achievement of all store turnover, new accounts & rewards
- Providing excellent customer service
- Stock management
- Daily stock counts
- Visual merchandising
- Execution of administrative tasks
Qualifications:
- Beauty related qualification desirable
- 2-3 years retail experience
- 1-2 years cosmetics experience
Skills:
- Excellent selling skills
- Strong interest in retail and the cosmetic field in particular
- The ability to communicate and persuade effectively at all levels
- Ability to show initiative and be resourceful
- Ability to source and implement effective solutions in a fast-paced environment
- Customer Service Delivery
- Planning & Organising
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Managing the Sales Process
- Customer Value Management
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Your key areas of responsibilities will include:
- Being an ambassador for our brand and offering amazing Customer experience.
- Exceed Customer expectations by identifying and providing them with the best possible solutions.
- Actively keeping track of sales performance against target.
- Selling a diverse product range and keeping up to date with the latest trends.
- Searching out opportunities for making new sales.
- Assist with replenishing of stock and visual merchandising to ensure the store is ready for our customers at all times.
Must haves:
- A Matric Certificate.
- Passionate about retail is a must.
- Sales driven and service focused.
- Possess a strong work ethic and hands-on attitude.
- Demonstrate initiative to deliver results.
- Experience in representing a quality brand
- Ability to thrive under pressure
- Must be able to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business and will require weekends and evening shifts.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Successfully source and procure a balanced range of merchandise in line with company strategy.
- Work closely with the planner, through analysis of previous sales patterns, market trends and brand initiatives.
- Formulate departmental strategies to maximize sales and then timeously source and secure stock to implement strategies.
- Negotiate effectively to deliver Financial business KPI’S.
- Build and maintain good relationships with employees, suppliers, and key functions in the business.
- Contribute to growth /profit through innovative ideas.
- Availability to go on buying trips (local and international).
- Understanding and delivering a clear product strategy aligned with specific store brand strategy.
- Think in terms of the "big picture" as well as consider specifics and detail.
- Drive product efficiencies and key measures.
- Assess complex situations and implement workable solutions.
- Communicate effectively at all levels.
- Team player and be able to foster collaboration across buying and planning functions.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Diploma, Graduate Degree, or Post Graduate Degree.
- Have experience as a Buyer.
- Integral understanding of the retail Cycle and Buying Process.
- A good working knowledge of the current computer software packages (knowledge of Excel, Word & E-mail would be preferable).
- Excellent planning, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Product development.
- Uncompromising negotiation skills.
- Good analytical skills.
Skills:
- Planning & Organising.
- Policy & Procedures.
- Market Research and Analysis.
- Supplier Management.
- Requirements Analysis.
- Global Sourcing.
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