Location:
Florida Hills - Roodepoort

Duration:
Permanent

Start Date:
Immediate

Type of Business:
Retail Head Office

Remuneration:
R8000 - R14000 depending on experience

Main Functions:

• Assist with the organizing and follow up of Franchisees meetings and Workshops
• Products discussion
• Product selection for store
• Book buying days
• Product meetings
• Trade shows
• Store Visits
• Product range analysing in stores and proposal for improvement
• Identification of opportunities to improve store achievements
• Purchase proposal to improve cash flow
• Analysing of system reports to determine the top sellers and optimizing of product selection
• Written feedback after visits and follow up visits to ensure that problem areas are addressed and sorted out
• Assist with New Stores
• Merchandise layouts/Merchandising
• Opening of Supplier Accounts
• Ordering of opening stock and follow up on deliveries
• Coordinating of opening specials
• Opening of all new stores
• Data Capturing
• Organizing of opening specials
• Assist in opening of all new stores
• Follow up on orders/deliveries for new stores
• Merchandising assistance
• Sending and keeping record of the new store openings invitation to suppliers
• Assist with Compiling and Updating of the Merchandising manual
• Assist with Follow ups on Suppliers and products
• Negotiated terms
• Imports
• Supplier reports
• Up to date keeping of supplier Agreements and contracts
• Assist with Group marketing and advertising campaigns
• Supplier deals follow up
• Marketing material
• Coordinating monthly newsletter
• Formulating best seller reports by using the store IT system reports
• Imports
• Obtaining information regarding any bulk deals.
• Drawing up of allocation sheet for products
• Working with Central Buying Product Manager to oversee and ensure the smooth running of all the imports
• Assisting with Company stores and affiliated companies
• Supplier orders
• Resolve all queries relating to product
• Work in Company stores during peak trading periods
• Regular supplier and product comparison to ensure stores receive best deal
• Market research to determine what other retail groups do in terms of specials, new releases and book launches and negotiate and plan strategies around findings
• Resolve and handling all product enquiries received telephonically and via the website
• Compiling of all management reports for Product Manager as required from time to time.

Requirements:

• Matric Certificate
• Diploma or Certificate in product/ IT assisting or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 2 years stationery and retail experience
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in basic imports
• Product coordination or assisting
• Staff Training – compiling of information
• Store layouts and merchandising
• New store openings – all product related facilitating
• Report analysing
• Retail IT Systems
• Coordinating of changes
• Fully Bilingual (Afrikaans and English)
• Own Reliable Transport

• Software Knowledge
• Excel
• V look-up’s
• Formulas
• Microsoft Outlook and Word
• Retail Systems

• Sound retail and financial knowledge
• Ability to deal with conflict
• Resolve franchisee matters
• Enforce group standards
• Do effective research
• Ability to organize and Plan
• Ability to negotiate
• Non- Smoker
• Willing to travel
• Willing to assist in other tasks outside of normal duties