Warehouse Supervisor à Afrique du Sud

Our esteemed client, a prominent player in the retail industry, is looking to appoint an experienced and results-driven Retail Store Manager to lead operations at their Walmer Park Shopping Centre branch in Port Elizabeth.

Requirements:

• Grade 12.
• Experience – must have 3 to 5 years’ working experience as a Store Manager in Retail.
• Must be sales orientated, comfortable to engage with customers, and must be a self-starter.
• Must be very confident and possess strong managerial skills.
• Must be willing to work according to the trading hours of the Mall: Mondays to Fridays 09:00 – 18:00; Saturdays 09:00 – 17:00; and Sundays 09:00 – 14:00.

Responsibilities, but not limited to:

1. Knowledge of the Product:

• It is your responsibility to ensure that the staff, including yourself, is knowledgeable regarding all the products that we sell.

2. Customer Service:

• Customer Service essentially means that we go above and beyond to meet the customers’ expectations or requirements.

3. Customer Care:

• Customer care means how well customers are taken care of while they interact with the brand / company / employees.
• You are responsible to meet the sales targets / budgets that are set for the store. Daily Targets should be set and then measured as the month progresses to determine how far ahead / behind the store is in achieving the requirement. If behind, then some innovative thinking may be required to come up with ways to get on target again.

5. Selling Skills:

• Add on Sales – In every sale, there is an opportunity to add on to the sale.
• Complementary products to the product being bought.
• Up-Sell - This skill is getting a customer to purchase an item that is more expensive than the product that the customer was originally looking at purchasing. This is done by promoting the features, advantages, and benefits of the more expensive item.
• Another skill is to assess when it is appropriate to do the above.

6. Merchandising and Display:

• This is a key factor in attracting customers into the retail store.

7. Marketing:

Whilst the marketing material, etc. will be produced at Head Office, there are certain responsibilities that are required from you:

• To ensure that all marketing material is displayed properly in the store.
• To ensure that the marketing material is kept in good presentable shape.
• To ensure that when a particular promotion / sale has ended that the marketing material is taken down and packed away safely so that it can be used again in the future.
• To ensure that the day-to-day signage / stands are used properly.
• To look for potential marketing opportunities within the shopping centre.
• To engage with the shopping centre marketing team to understand what their marketing plans are for a given month.

9. Administrative Duties:

• Cash ups.
• New stock codes and descriptions.
• Costs and Retail Pricing.
• Stock receipts.
• It is important to ensure that the correct barcode is put on the items so that we do not have issues that will result in items that are sold at incorrect pricing.
• Ensure that the sales for the items on consignment are sent either on a weekly or monthly basis dependant on the requirement.

10. Housekeeping and Maintenance

11. Safety and Security:

• The centre management will have identified and put in place certain safety and security requirements, which must be adhered to.
• The Occupational and Safety Act regulation must be adhered to as well.
• It is the responsibility of all staff to ensure that the stock and assets of the shop are kept safe and secure at all times.

12. Asset Protection and Security:

• It is the function of the manager to ensure that all assets of the Retail Store are looked after and protected at all times. Therefore, you need to be diligent in making sure that theft, either from the outside or from the staff on the inside, does not take place.

13. Management:

• All the points mentioned above needs to be managed on a daily basis. It is the responsibility of the Manager to ensure that this is happening, by being aware of, identifying what needs to be done and then ensuring it is carried out either by giving instructions to the staff or doing it yourself or with the staff.

Please note: If you do not receive a response within two weeks of submitting your application, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.

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