Manager Perishables – Norwood needed at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

Job Description

• To manage resources in order to maximize turnover and minimize shortage. Ensures that standards, processes and policies are adhered to.

Qualification

• Grade 12
• Minimum of 2 years Supervisory experience or
• 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