Job description

We are looking for a confident retail merchandise innovator who is passionate about product trends, data accuracy, and successful results!

You must have previous experience in planning for plugs (appliances, electronics, cellular) and need to be a visionary who enjoys collaborating with people and sharing insights to create positive impacts that will delight our customers.

Here is what you can expect to be doing in the role

• Work for a retailer of the future to drive financial sales, gross margin and inventory plans
• Drive revenue manage category margin and stock efficiencies
• Develop a balanced range to react to trade
• Manage promotions and engage with channel owners to drive sales velocity
• Display effective reporting skills
• Undertake analysis that supports or challenges category/business strategy
• Lead and manage a team of planners

Requirements

A little about who you are

• Completed a tertiary commercial/retail qualification, preferably a university degree
• Five years of merchandise planning experience
• Experience with consumer electronics, i.e. TVs, Mobile devices, computers, and accessories is a non-negotiable
• Maintain supplier relationships
• Strong negotiation skills
• Natural trader instincts
• People management
• Digital mindset
• Entrepreneurial flair
• Commercial awareness

Benefits

• Flexible benefits to structure your own package
• Creative agile work environment
• Flexible working hours
• Café and lounge area
• Staff restaurant with a variety of healthy meal options

Posted on 20 Mar 16:27

Job description

This role is based in Bellville (Cape Town, South Africa). Interested parties can send their CV, covering letter as to why you feel called to work for CV (an organisation with the vision of introducing people across Africa with the message of the Gospel of Jesus) and a design portfolio (essential). Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

Character:

As a member of the CV family, the incumbent should exemplify the following:

• A love and passion for building the Kingdom of God, and a clear identification with CV’s vision to reach a billion people with the message of Jesus.
• A self-starter who is keen, hardworking, has an eye for detail, adaptable with a willingness to learn and develop.
• An excellent communicator, team player that has the ability to work alone with strict deadlines.

Duties:

The incumbent will be responsible for the following activities:

• Graphically generate engaging, unique and compelling content for social media accounts – Adobe.
• Design and create digital marketing creative  – Adobe (Facebook, Google and web adverts).
• Design and create digital branding assets (logos, corporate stationery, presentations, etc.).
• Implement all social media and communication campaigns across multiple social platforms and brands.
• Keep up-to-date with digital technology and social trends.
• Management of publishing and the monitoring of branded content.
• Generate monthly reports on social media results.
• Partner with internal and global teams through the content creation process, contributing with ideas and assuring alignment to strategic direction.
• Management of monthly content calendars, strategically placing content in the calendar and writing first draft caption copy.
• Build community and boost brand awareness through events and other creative marketing ideas.
• Must understand print processes and be able to set up files for printing.
• Other duties as delegated from time to time by line manager.

Company Description

Christian Vision (CV) is a global Christian charity with evangelism at our heart. We carry a strong desire to serve and equip Christians, and the local church, in their evangelistic endeavours.

To this end, we have laboured to develop on-the-ground initiatives and effective media platforms, both of which are outworked in partnership with local churches across the globe to share the Good News of Jesus and mobilise Christians to share their faith.

Requirements

Experience and competencies:

The successful candidate should have the following experience and competencies:

• Graphic design – essential.
• At least two years of design and social media experience in a studio/agency environment.
• Advanced in Adobe Creative (full suite).
• Advanced in Microsoft Office (full suite).
• Experience in managing digital content across all major social networks.
• Understanding of basic social channel analytics and ‘listening tools’.

Posted on 20 Mar 14:23

The contact and client services centre is looking for three (3) professional, dynamic and client-centric individuals who thrive in a fast-paced and ever-changing, inbound, multilingual and omnichannel environment.

The incumbents will be required to effectively handle calls, emails, webchats, faxes, social media posts, and walk-in clients. All enquiries need to be handled with professionalism, accuracy and empathy to fulfil customer requirements on behalf of the University. The role provides customer service to prospective students, current students, alumni and the general public. 

All agents are generalists and handle all types of enquiries coming into the centre. Agents are grouped according to language ability: English and Afrikaans; English and isiZulu/isiXhosa; English and Afrikaans and isiZulu/isiXhosa.

Written support on email and webchat is only available in English and Afrikaans. 

Three (3) available posts:

The incumbents would need to meet at least the following language abilities

• English and Afrikaans: Exceptional and professional verbal communication skills; and
• English: Exceptional and professional written communication skills. 

Duties:

• Excellent customer service skills (including listening, clarifying, probing, establishing rapport during conversation);
• Solution-orientated and an excellent communicator while addressing customer queries;
• Adhering to all metrics, KPI and internal processes to ensure an excellent and consistent customer experience;
• Providing a professional and empathetic experience for walk-in enquiries at the enquiries desk;
• Providing effective customer service across different communication channels, including social media, email, webchat and telephony;
• Effective escalation of sensitive queries to the line manager;
• Maintaining effective and constructive professional relationships with internal stakeholders within SU to identify trends in customer queries;
• Strong team working ability;
• Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities;
• Ambitious and willing to accept new challenges. 

Requirements:

Primary

• A completed three-year full-time university degree (NQF 7);
• English and Afrikaans: Excellent and professional verbal communication skills;
• English: Excellent and professional written communication skills;
• At least six (6) months’ work experience in a university’s prospective student environment;
• Excellent customer service skills (including questioning/clarifying, probing, listening, establishing rapport);
• Empathetic, solution-orientated and an excellent communicator while addressing customer queries;
• Ability to effectively handle calls, emails, web-chats, faxes, social media posts, and walk-in clients with professionalism, accuracy and empathy;
• Strong focus on quality;
• A high level of computer literacy. 

Additional

• An analytical and detail-orientated approach;
• Strong teamwork ability;
• Flexible for both SU and customers;
• Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities;
• Ambitious and willing to accept new challenges.

Recommendations:

• Excellent and professional verbal communication skills in isiZulu or isiXhosa; and/or
• Excellent and professional written communication skills in Afrikaans. 

Commencement of duties: 1 June 2020

Closing date: 25 March 2020

Enquiries regarding this post: Mr Jonathan Blanckenberg on 021 808 2511.

Enquiries regarding remuneration/benefits as well as technical assistance with the electronic application process: Human resources client services centre on 021 808 2753

The University will consider all applications in terms of its Employment Equity Plan, which acknowledges the need to diversify the demographic composition of the staff corps, especially with regard to the appointment of suitable candidates from the designated groups. 

The University reserves the right not to make an appointment. 

Your application, comprising a comprehensive curriculum vitae (including the names and e-mail address of at least three referees), must reach the University before or on the closing date of the advertised post. 

Apply online at www.sun.ac.za/english/careers 

The University reserves the right to investigate qualifications and conduct background checks on all candidates. Should no feedback be received from the University within four weeks of the closing date, kindly accept that your application did not succeed.

Posted on 19 Mar 10:47

We are looking for skilled and experienced Front-End Web Developer that has a passion to work with a dynamic team in delivering our leading cloud-based SaaS Web and Mobile products. As a Front-End Web Developer, you will be bringing your User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) skills to our C# & Angular Development Teams, providing expertise to create rich customer experiences for our solutions.

We are passionate about our solutions, our people and what we bring to market and we are looking for candidates that share this vision and have a keen appetite to be involved in what we are doing across multiple industries, delivering challenging cutting-edge web and mobile solutions.

Primary Responsibilities for the Role

· Providing guidance and/or direction regarding user interface design for web front-end and/or mobile apps

· Drive our User Experience and User-Centered Design approach for our solutions

· Ensure that all applications (web and/or mobile) drive a consistent approach across Android, iOS platforms and across all web-browsers

Minimum Qualification and Experience Requirements

· At least 5 years’ experience working as a Front-end Developer of Web based solutions (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, SCSS and other web-based technologies).

· At least 3 years’ experience with C# and .NET Framework

· At least 3 years’ experience with Angular and/or React

· At least 3 years’ experience with RESTful Services, JSON and Micro-Services

· Sound Responsive Design Concepts (any framework or approach)

· Source Control, versioning and branching concepts

· Knowledge of Server-Side Rendering vs. Client-Side Rendering

· Understanding of SaaS Cloud based concepts.

· Relational Database and T-SQL scripting experience (ideally MSSQL; or MySQL or PostgreSQL)

· CI/CD Tools (Octopus Deploy, Team City, Jenkins, Atlassian Pipelines)

· Test Driven Development concepts

· Experience working with Atlassian Suite.

· Relevant tertiary qualification in Software Development or certification in Web and/or Front-end skills.