Company: Pick n Pay Stores Limited
Industry: Sales / Retail
Deadline: Sep 21, 2025
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Matric
Experience:
Location: Eastern Cape
City:
Field: Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development
Job Title: Manager Perishables
- To manage resources in order to maximise turnover and minimise shortage. Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to.
Minimum requirements
- Grade 12
- Experience/Training in foods retail and management of resources
​​​​​​​Competencies
- Achieving results through others
- Plan, organize and follow up on activities and plans
- Adhere to standards and policies
- Customer Orientation
- Communication skills – clearly conveying message and actively listening
- Business mindedness
Key responsibilities
- Merchandising Management
- Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise
- Ensures temperature controls in fridges are set and maintained at required levels
- Handles product as per SOP
- Manages inventory and ensures optimal stock levels are maintained
- Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time
- 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
- 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
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
Staff Management
- Communicates critical information to staff
- Set targets and activities – priorities, delegates and communicates
- Handles procedural, policy and legislative noncompliance
- Checks and amends Kronos scheduling
- Coaches staff
- Keeps staff motivated
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: 19 September 2025
