Manager Fruit & Veg

Pick n Pay; Bloemfontein; On-site; ZAR 320,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Pick n Pay in Bloemfontein seeks a Store Department Manager to lead merchandising, customer service and staff development in a fast-paced retail environment. You will drive turnover, manage stock levels, ensure quality, hygiene and compliance with SOPs, and coach a team to deliver superior service.

Responsibilities include supervising sales staff, coordinating promotions, monitoring KPI performance, arranging training, and maintaining safe, efficient store operations across the department.

Qualifications

• Grade 12
• 2 - 4 years Produce experience
• 1 - 2 years running a department and responsible for sales staff
• Management experience - coaching, training, dealing with noncompliance and performance issues

Responsibilities

• Merchandising Management: Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise; Executes plano guide 100%; Identifies fast selling lines within store; Monitors promotional activities and ensures stock availability.
• Food Safety & Hygiene: Maintains hygiene standards; Ensures stock rotation; Manages non-conformances and cleans schedules.
• Customer Services Management: Responds to customer requests; Explains stock availability and delivery times; Ensures department standards and equipment readiness.
• Staff Management: Sets targets; Coaches staff; Attends regional meetings; Manages scheduling in Kronos.
• Administration: Maintains equipment; Monitors waste; Identifies opportunities to increase turnover; Ensures all SEL are current.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Leadership

Stock management

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Customer focus

Retail experience

Education

Grade 12

Tools

SAP

Excel

Kronos scheduling

Job description

It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!

To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage. Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to.

Minimum requirements

Grade 12

2 - 4 years Produce experience

1 - 2 years running a department and responsible for sales staff

Management experience - coaching, training, dealing with noncompliance and performance issues

Competencies

Strong commercial awareness and results orientation.

Leadership and team management capability.

Excellent organisational and stock management skills.

Strong attention to quality and detail.

Customer-focused mindset.

Ability to work in a fast-paced retail environment.

Key Responsibilities

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 product is wrapped and packed according to standards

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 non compliance

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: 12 October 2026

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!

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