Job description

Bordallo Pinheiro, an iconic Portuguese ceramics brand, has opened its first retail store in South Africa! Bordallo Pinheiro also operates an online store and a wholesale business.

We are looking for a friendly and competent individual as a personal assistant to the business owners. The position will be based in store and the successful candidate will be responsible for the day to day running of the store, fulfilling in store, online & wholesale orders as well as assisting the owners with placing orders, communicating with clients, arranging sales events, plus any other requirements as they arise.

A retail background is not essential. Rather a friendly, positive and helpful nature. Some experience in a personal assistant/executive assistant role is required.

The role offers the opportunity for someone looking for something more than just a personal assistant or retail role. As the business is starting out, the candidate will have the opportunity to help with all aspects of the business and be a support and assistant to the owners.

www.bordallopinheiro.com

Company Description

On a tree-lined side street on the outskirts of Caldas da Rainha, 75km north of Lisbon, lies the home of Portuguese ceramics brand Bordallo Pinheiro.

Founded in 1884 by Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, renowned Portuguese journalist, caricaturist and sculptor. He was known for producing nature-inspired earthenware that invoked the beauty of imagination, creativity, humour, and social consciousness.

Bordallo began his ceramics production at the Fábrica de Faianças in Caldas, creating pieces of great technical, artistic and creative quality. He produced bold pieces, either by their size or by the delicacy of their details. Bordallo Pinheiro is steeped in heritage and continues to produce a range of ceramic designs that have stood the test of time.

Virtually all of the pieces are handcrafted and produced with little mechanisation using traditional techniques that have been passed down through generations of ceramic artists. Adopting fauna and flora as decorative inspiration, the pieces are quirky and colourful and display a whimsical exuberance.

The products give life to any table and can be used in various environments, both formal and casual, and include complete dinner sets, centrepieces and other decorative figures and giftware.

The Bordallo Pinheiro brand is an innovative and design-driven company and has in recent years, become associated with renowned national and international artists in the creation of contemporary pieces, inspired by the original works of Bordallo. Adopting a modern and entrepreneurial approach, Bordallo Pinheiro plays an essential role in the revitalization of Portuguese ceramics.

A selection of these extraordinary pieces is now available locally in South Africa via an online and retail store.

Bordallo Pinheiro is excited to announce the opening of its first store in South Africa, located on Bree Street in Cape Town. The store will be the latest addition to its flagship store locations in Lisbon, Paris and Madrid.

The owners operate a number of businesses and are looking for an individual to assist them in the operation of the retail store, but also with other aspects of their personal and business lives.

Requirements

Main responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Managing all aspects of the trading of the store.
• Ensuring that the standards of the store, merchandise and personnel appearance reflect the professional image of the company.
• Ensuring sales targets are managed in terms of sales, expenses and profit.
• Maintain excellent merchandising standards and stock management.
• Placing orders, managing stock and capturing & reconciling invoices.
• Carrying out stock takes.
• Assisting the owners to implement marketing and merchandising in-store and online.
• Wholesale orders: invoicing, processing and order preparation.
• Online orders: processing and order preparation.
• Customer service and sales: build customer relations and resolve customer queries both in-store and online.
• Other ad hoc personal assistant responsibilities.
• Various other duties as and when reasonably required.

Requirements:

• Matric exemption.
• Experience as a personal assistant.
• Retail, sales, marketing and business experience will be beneficial.
• An interest in décor and design.
• Strong computer literacy skills.
• Strong administrative, organisational and numeracy skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills: friendly, dynamic, helpful and people centric.
• Driven and self-motivated: proactive, shows initiative and willing to help.
• Decision making: make quick and effective decisions.

Posted on 13 Jan 09:56

Are you a Professional Recruitment Consultant with an excellent Customer Service track record? We are requiring your strong administrative skills, your initiative and ability to juggle deadlines consistently in order to be a highly successful part of this top team. A professional and determined attitude is our top requirement!

REQUIREMENTS

Matric, relevant tertiary qualification advantageous

Own vehicle essential

Minimum four years’ experience in a sales and administration role

Professional demeanour with an open personality

Fast paced work ethic with top integrity is essential

A self-starter, self-managed while driven to achieve deadlines at all times

Problem solver who can use initiative to solve situations that arise

Assessment ability and decision making

DUTIES

Building relationships with Key Clients and with Candidates suitable for placements

Working alongside the team achieving monthly deadline requirements

Develop and grow the database of candidates and clients

Managing the processing of candidate’s applications

Assessment of candidates for suitability to fill positions

Achieve monthly targets

Checking of figures for accuracy for documentation for the finance department

Managing quotes and tenders

Working with existing clients and growing the database

Developing marketing material  for advertising

Presentations to senior level Clients

Calling on Key accounts

Cold calling for new relationships and acquiring new clients

Managing various reports for Management

Resolving problems and conflict resolution of any problems that arise

Negotiating at a high level

Salary:   Dependent on experience

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Job description

Smart, fun and ambitious with an insatiable appetite for learning and crushing goals. Enough about us, tell us about you. We’re on the lookout for an operational data/reporting intern to join our awesome team of digital masterminds!

Why choose Incubeta?

• We’re a young and vibrant bunch of people and if you consider yourself to be the same, we want you to apply!
• We LOVE a good cup of coffee! We have our very own barista coffee making station that provides us with awesome coffee everyday!
• We provide breakfasts, fruit each and every morning!
• We have a dedicated social committee specialising in making our office the best place to be!
• We are based in one of the most beautiful locations in the world – Cape Town, CBD

So, what’s the aim of the position?      

To extract, transform, load, maintain and ensure the integrity of operational data.

Your day-to-day tasks will look something like this:

• Maintain data models, reporting systems, data automation systems, dashboards and performance metrics that support key business decisions
• ETL: Extract. Transform. Load. Structure, manage, and extract data from multiple applications / sources
• Maintain communication with relevant Support teams w.r.t. improvements, feature requests, system errors, etc.
• Verifies results by completing tests
• Performing regular investigations of data sources to verify accuracy and integrity of data
• Supporting the various divisions with preparing reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information
• Working with the various team to enhance the reporting and data insights
• Maintains systems and platforms integrity and security by researching and resolving problems.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing standards
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge.

Requirements

• Must love data!
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Excel.
• Strong mathematical and analytical problem-solving skills
• High degree of accuracy
• Results oriented, creative thinking
• Logical individual, motivated by building practical and sustainable solutions
• Solutions-oriented
• Can-do attitude, self-motivated
• Strong prioritization and managerial skills
• Strong understanding of business processes, acumen and interlinked relationships.

Advantageous:

• Experience working in a Digital Media Agency 
• Tertiary qualification/s within the marketing and/or digital sphere

If you believe that you are the ideal candidate for this position, please send through your cover letter, current CV and tertiary qualification/s to Caryn Pillar at

moc.atebucni@nyrac

by no later than 31 January 2020. (Please take note that if you do not receive a response from us within two weeks of submitting your application, consider your application as unsuccessful)

We look forward to hearing from you!!!

Posted on 10 Jan 15:17

Position summary

An exciting career opportunity exists for a meticulous UX/UI designer in a global digital product design studio. 

At Now Boarding we represent the user, challenge thinking and use beautiful design to craft meaningful digital experiences. With offices in Cape Town and Zurich, we work with a wide variety of South African and international clients across various sectors including Fintech, Insurtech, Edutech, E-commerce and SaaS. 
We thrive on creativity and collaborative relationships, and we’re passionate about results-driven, conceptual thinking and pixel-perfect design. We work in a lean and agile environment like to move fast, and have fun while doing it.

We are looking for a driven and experienced UX/UI designer with a fascination for usability and a passion for turning ideas into thoroughly-considered digital products that make a real impact. Candidates must have four+ years of relevant experience and the ability to create simple solutions to complex problems. A basic understanding of development principles would also be advantageous.

If you’re a strong team player and you operate best where people, design and business meet, we’d like to hear from you. 

Key qualifications

We’d like you to…

• Help clients define their user, business and product goals
• Develop User Journeys, Wireframes and UI Design that clearly illustrate how digital products function and look
• Present UI mockups and prototypes to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Design user interface elements, like menus, search fields, buttons, tabs and widgets
• Create original design elements (e.g. illustrations, images, sketches and tables)
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
• Optimise UX based on user feedback and data-learnings
• Adhere to brand style standards on fonts, colours and images
• Prepare and handoff final assets to developers

The must-haves…

• Relevant tertiary education
• 4+ years of UX/UI Design experience
• Expert knowledge of user-centred design principles
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Meticulous attention to detail while keeping an eye on the big picture
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to effectively work across multiple projects
• Demonstrable mastery of Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, or other design tools
• An outstanding body of work demonstrating the successful delivery of innovative interface design solutions for web, desktop applications and/or mobile devices

We’re looking for someone who…

• Learns fast and is able to grasp the requirements of a project quickly
• Collaborates comfortably with our local and offshore teams and clients
• Is highly detail-oriented
• Works well and effectively under pressure
• Takes initiative, doesn’t wait for instruction and manages their own time
• Is completely dependable

What we hope you’ll love about working with us:

• Challenging projects in a wide variety of industries
• Working with businesses of all sizes, from startups to corporates, both local and international
• Our fun, crazy, talented and incredibly smart team
• Unlimited online training, we love it if you want to learn
• Flexi-time
• Delicious lunches every day
• Our office dogs
• Collaborative relationships with our clients and partners

In our team’s words…

“At Now Boarding, I feel cared about. My professional growth and happiness is a priority. I am not part of a team, but part of a family!”

“No day is ever the same at Now Boarding. You’ll constantly get challenged and therefore learn and grow, which keeps the days interesting and exciting. We have great clients that truly appreciate our work, and the projects we work on really make an impact on people’s lives. We have an unbeatable company culture, with everyone helping each other achieve our collective goals. Oh, and did I mention the delicious daily lunches?”

“I love being surrounded by people that really believe in each other and in what we do.” 

Application requirements

Letter of motivation

CV

Portfolio

Please note no applications will be accepted without the above items. Applications to be submitted to mel@nowboarding.co.za.

Should you not hear back from us within 4 weeks from post date, kindly consider your application unsuccessful.

Note:

We might require that you solve a creative challenge, in order for us to assess creativity and competence.

Posted on 10 Jan 09:20