Fresh Food Manager – Empangeni needed at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Job Description

• Ensures that operating standards are maintained. Manages all aspects of hygiene and safety within the Fresh Foods Department

Minimum Qualifications 

• Matric Grade 12. Experience / training in foods retail and management of resources. 

Experience 

• Experience / training in foods retail and management of resources. 

Skills and attributes 

• 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 

Merchandising Management 

• Conducts regular quality checks on merchandise 
• Executes plano guide 100% 
• Handles product as per SOP  
• Ensures department is ready for trade by store opening time 
• Identifies fast selling lines within store, and implications on margin and sales opportunities 
• Ensures produce 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 
• Understand customer needs and communicate these to demand planning 
• 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 

Customer Services Management 

• Responds to customer requests 
• Answers queries on out of stock – assists with replacement produce, 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 non compliance 
• Attends monthly regional meetings – take information back to staff – responds to queries on turnover/waste  
• Checks and amends Kronos scheduling 

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