Admin Manager Retail - iStore Maponya (JHB)

CORE; Soweto; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

iStore, Africa’s largest Apple Premium Reseller, is seeking an Admin Manager to lead teams and ensure a valued experience for staff and customers. You will oversee back-of-house operations, enforce SOPs, and continuously optimize processes and controls to reduce risk and improve efficiency.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of leadership in retail, strong matrix-management skills, and a proven track record of achieving store targets while delivering excellent customer experience.

Qualifications

• Completed Matric (minimum requirements).
• Tertiary qualification would be advantageous.
• 5+ years leading teams in a complex and high turnover environment.
• Retail operations experience and knowledge.
• Matrix management capability to ensure co-operation across business functions.
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment, learning quickly, being agile and nimble whilst thinking strategically.
• Proven track record of excellent customer experience.
• Proven track record of driving Store targets and results.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams, provide supportive feedback, and ensure both team members and customers have a valued experience.
• Ensure back of house iStore operations run effectively, efficiently and optimally and that risk to the iStore business is reduced by ensuring policies, processes and SOPs are adhered to.
• Focus on enhancing operations and reviewing systems and processes on an ongoing basis to align with best fit for the business.

Skills

Leadership

Retail operations

Customer experience

Strategic thinking

Team management

Education

Matric

Tertiary qualification

Job description

iStore is the home of everything Apple, and Africa’s largest Apple Premium Reseller. With a retail footprint of more than 43 physical and online stores across Africa that provide expert advice, Apple Authorised Repairs, Business, Education, training and technical support for anything and everything Apple.

As an iStore Admin Manager you would be responsible for Lead teams, provide supportive feedback, and ensure both team members and customers have a valued experience.

Your responsibilities are to ensure that the back of house iStore operations run effectively, efficiently and optimally and that overall risk to the iStore business is reduced by ensuring that all iStore policies, processes and standard operating procedures (SOP’s) are adhered to.

Focus on enhancing operations and reviewing systems and processes on an ongoing basis to align with best fit for the business.

You need to have:

• A Completed Matric (minimum requirements)
• Tertiary Qualification would be advantageous
• 5+ years leading teams in a complex and high turnover environment
• Retail operations experience and knowledge
• Matrix management capability to ensure co-operation across business functions
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment, desire to learn quickly, being agile and nimble whilst thinking strategically
• Proven track record of excellent customer experience
• Proven track record of driving Store targets and results