Website TFG (The Foschini Group)
TFG holds a diversified portfolio of speciality retail assets across various product categories and consumer segments. The Group has a portfolio of 35 leading retail brands, with over 4600 outlets in 23 countries on five continents, offering customers a variety of speciality products including fashion apparel, jewellery, cosmetics, sporting apparel, electronics, homeware and furniture. TFG has the largest speciality fashion and lifestyle retail footprint in South Africa and a growing presence in the UK and Australia.
About the job
Job Description
Are you passionate about our brands and would like to join a leading retailer? We are looking for high-energy and confident team members, who will help create positive energy and excitement around our brand and products. If you have a strong selling instinct and enjoy impressing Customers with your keen sense of style and creative eye, then this position is for you!
Responsibilities
- Driving turnover to ensure achievement of targets
- Controlling expenses
- Managing stock losses to ensure shrinkage is in line with the Company standard
- People management, including recruitment, development of staff, employee relations, performance management
- Executing in-store merchandising strategy and standards
- Ensure customer satisfaction by executing our customer service strategy and fulfilling the demands of our customers
Qualifications
- A Matric certificate.
- Minimum 3 years retail experience with a minimum of 1 year store leadership experience.
Skills
- An excellent leader and business manager
- High flexibility and ability to adapt to different customers and situations.
- A high sense of urgency with demonstrated ability to work independently.
- High flexibility and ability to adapt to different customers.
- An outstanding leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business.
- Ensure customer satisfaction by executing our customer service strategy and fulfilling the demands of our customers
- Figure and admin orientated
- Management Experience
- Organised and thorough
- An excellent leader and business manager
- Profit and turnover driven
- Able to manage risk within the store
- Strategic Sales Planning
- Managing the Sales Process
- Customer Value Management
Competencies And Behaviours For Success
- Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
- Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
- Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
- Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
- Good verbal/ written communication skills and good organisational skills
- Strong organizational and planning skills
- The ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- The ability to work independently
- The ability to take initiative
- A high level of attention to detail
Preference will be given, but not limited to candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.