Permanent - Store Manager - Tshwane (Pretoria) - South Africa

To ensure operational efficiencies and day to day operations of the retail store to meet profitability and sales targets whilst ensuring quality, and customer expectations and demand standards are met.

Retail Store Management:

• Contributes to creating and recommending strategic plans and reviews in order to achieve operational objectives and day to day operations of the store.
• Identifies current and future customer requirements by establishing rapport with potential and actual customers and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.
• Ensures availability of merchandise and services by approving contracts and maintaining inventories.
• Formulates pricing policies by reviewing merchandising activities; determining additional needed sales promotion; authorizing clearance sales; studying trends.
• Markets merchandise by studying advertising, sales promotion, display plans and analysing operating and financial statements for profitability ratios.
• Secures merchandise by implementing security systems and measures.
• Protects employees and customers by providing a safe and clean store environment.
• Maintains the stability and reputation of the store by complying with legal requirements.
• Determines marketing strategy changes by reviewing operating and financial statements.
• Completes store operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees and following up on work results.

Compliance:

• Operates within controls and procedures in order to ensure the integrity of the company.
• Identifies and monitors risks within own department and area of responsibility.
• Assists in the maintenance of a risk register, report discrepancies or areas of concern to management.
• Ensures compliance with all relevant regulations and policy frameworks to prevent fruitless, wasteful and irregular expenditure.
• Provide a safe working environment, adhering to Health, Safety and Environmental procedures and ensuring they are understood and practiced by the team at all times.
• Maintain safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures, complying with legal regulations.

Customer Service Management:

• Maintains effective working relationships with customers (both internal and external) towards rendering highest quality of services.
• Represents the company in meetings with relevant stakeholders.
• Identifies and solves problems creatively whilst demonstrating a high level of integrity in line with the company core values.
• Reports to Management on internal stakeholder related matters.

Staff Supervision:

• Ensures that all employees have signed performance agreements.
• Monitors and measures performance quarterly by conducting employee appraisals.
• In collaboration with HR, identify staff performance objectives, potential areas of development and action plans where necessary.
• Ensures ongoing training and development of employees.
• Addresses employee relations matters fairly and promptly.

Cost and Financial Control:

• Contributes to the budget preparation process.
• Promotes and communicates the effective, efficient, economical and transparent use of financial and other resources.
• Monitors and controls expenditure against budget and ensures spending occurs within budgetary limits and the company's financial guidelines, report deviations to direct Manager.
• Explores opportunities to control and reduce costs.

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Inherent Requirements

Educational Qualifications:

• Matric / Grade 12 (Minimum)
• Diploma in Business Administration / Sales / Marketing

Experience:

• 5 years' experience in Retail Sales and/or Marketing of which up to 3 years should be at supervisory / managerial level.

Essential knowledge and required skills:

• Computer Literacy (MS Office Suite; other relevant discipline specific software programs)
• Communication skills (both verbal and written)