Main Duties:
• To purchase within agreed minimum/ maximum levels, stocks for a three-week period, at the best possible prices.
• To ensure that stocks are stored and rotated correctly.
• To ensure that perishable items, such as draught beer are stored at the stipulated temperatures and that these items are not overstocked.
• To maximise business opportunities, through monitoring and taking advantage of trends, special promotions, etc.
• To ensure that merchandising throughout the store is effective, eye catching and that signage is big, bold and attractive.
• To ensure that staff are correctly and smartly dressed at all times.
• To practise and be seen to be practising good customer relations skills.
• To ensure that staff are aware of and practise good customer relations skills.
• To ensure that your product knowledge is up-to-date and carry out regular training/coaching sessions thus ensuring that staff also know the product and can therefore offer the best possible service to customers.
• To ensure that each staff member has a meaningful job description and knows what is expected of him/her.
• To ensure that hygiene standards, both inside and outside the store, comply with company and statutory regulations, e.g.:
- Parking area
- Pavements
- Windows
- Signs and canopies
- Trolleys and baskets
- Check-Out areas
- Walls and floors, in the shop, offices and storerooms
- Fridges
- Displays
- Toilets.
• To ensure that the regulations relating to the issuing of a liquor licence are strictly adhered to and that the renewal of the licence is timeously applied for.
• To ensure that no liquor is sold to anyone under the age of 18 and outside trading hours.
• To ensure that all statutory returns are completed correctly and submitted timeously, paying particular attention to the requirements of the Liquor Act of 1977.
• To ensure that the invoice book is up to date and contains the required signatures.
• To ensure that all company bookwork is completed correctly and submitted timeously.
• To ensure that the price list is up-to-date AT ALL TIMES and that items are correctly priced.
• To ensure that cashing-up procedures are