Sales Assistant – Poetry – Hyde Park at Cape Union Mart

Company: Cape Union Mart

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Cape Union Mart

Industry: Sales / Retail

Posted: Sep 8, 2025

Deadline: Not specified

Job Type: Full Time

Qualification: Matric

Experience: 1 year

Location: Gauteng

City: Johannesburg

Field: Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development

Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
  • Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
  • Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
  • Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
  • Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards to optimise sales.
  • Create an inspiring environment. Have fun.
  • Transact all purchases – receive, verify and processes all payments such as cash, cards, vouchers, coupons and any other acceptable payments.
  • Ensure all out going stock/ items/ scripts are scanned and paid for.
  • Process all loyalty cards including those of accelerated partners.
  • Establish a professional relationship with customers and provide friendly, helpful, courteous assistance and advice to all customers.
  • Report customer compliments and complaints to management.
  • Attend to all customer stock queries and ensure that they dealt with and resolved.

Behavioural Requirements:  

  • Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
  • Building & maintaining relationships
  • Innovation & change management
  • Thinking adaptability
  • Taking ownership
  • Problem solving
  • Trustworthy and honest
  • Time management
  • Exceptional customer service

Minimum Requirement. 

Essential:

  • Matric or Equivalent
  • Up to 6 months retail experience 

Special conditions of employment: 

  • Clear Credit and Criminal record
  • Willing and able to work retail hours.
  • South African citizen

Advantageous: 

  • 1 year work experience within retail.
  • Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
  • Ability to communicate effectively.
  • Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for) Willing and able to work retail hours.
     

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Duties and Responsibilities: 

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  • Exceed customer expectations by practicing customer selling techniques.
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  • Adhere to stock loss controls in store.
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  • Ensure individual targets are met consistently.
  • nt

  • Ability to maximise and drive sales by identifying opportunities to increase turnover.
  • nt

  • Maintain housekeeping, uphold our visual merchandising standards to optimise sales.
  • nt

  • Create an inspiring environment. Have fun.
  • nt

  • Transact all purchases – receive, verify and processes all payments such as cash, cards, vouchers, coupons and any other acceptable payments.
  • nt

  • Ensure all out going stock/ items/ scripts are scanned and paid for.
  • nt

  • Process all loyalty cards including those of accelerated partners.
  • nt

  • Establish a professional relationship with customers and provide friendly, helpful, courteous assistance and advice to all customers.
  • nt

  • Report customer compliments and complaints to management.
  • nt

  • Attend to all customer stock queries and ensure that they dealt with and resolved.
  • n

nn

Behavioural Requirements:  

nn

    nt

  • Honesty in dealing with cash and finances.
  • nt

  • Building & maintaining relationships
  • nt

  • Innovation & change management
  • nt

  • Thinking adaptability
  • nt

  • Taking ownership
  • nt

  • Problem solving
  • nt

  • Trustworthy and honest
  • nt

  • Time management
  • nt

  • Exceptional customer service
  • n

nn

Minimum Requirement. 

nn

Essential:

nn

    nt

  • Matric or Equivalent
  • nt

  • Up to 6 months retail experience 
  • n

nn

Special conditions of employment: 

nn

    nt

  • Clear Credit and Criminal record
  • nt

  • Willing and able to work retail hours.
  • nt

  • South African citizen
  • n

nn

Advantageous: 

nn

    nt

  • 1 year work experience within retail.
  • nt

  • Microsoft – Computer Proficiency
  • nt

  • Ability to communicate effectively.
  • nt

  • Knowledge of current clothing trends/outdoor lifestyle (depending on the brand applying for) Willing and able to work retail hours.
    nt 
  • n

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