Manager Fruit & Veg at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

• 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 and Knowledge 
• OR 
• 1-2 years Run a department responsible for sales staff – Management experience – coaching, training, dealing with noncompliance and performance issue

Competencies

• Customer service
• Sense of Urgency
• Communication
• Planning and organizational ability
• Business sense

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 noncompliance 
• 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: 11 October 2025

Method of Application
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