General Merchandise Brand Ambassador

SUMMARY:
Signa Opportunity is recruiting unemployed youth for quality workplace experience through the Youth Employment Service (YES) initiative.

POSITION INFO:
About the role
The Brand Ambassador is responsible for representing a brand in a positive light and by doing so help to increase brand awareness and sales. He/she will be assigned to more then one store.

Responsibilities

Shelf Health

• Ensure all price labels are displayed correctly, Price checks ensure product scans at displayed price.
• Ensure any promotional POS on display per customer instruction.
• Execute point of sales.
• Negotiate for extra space.
• Make sure all products on shelf and removed from storerooms.
• Identify out of stock.
• Build displays according to specifications.
• Discuss deals or new products with stores.

• Required to understand the use/functions of all products that are merchandised and be able to field questions from customers and respond in an appropriate manner.
• Approach customers in store and use your product knowledge to, where possible, direct customers to use Companies suppliers’ products.
• Complete Company monthly requirements.
• Train instore floor staff on product knowledge.
• Attend client training sessions as and when needed.
• Complete product knowledge test monthly.

• Stock counts of suppliers as communicated from line manager.
• Pull Aged stock per communication from Line Manager/s.
• Ensure all paperwork completed as per company guidelines and submitted.
• Book and execute stock counts.
• Identify aged and damaged stock.
• Stock rotation.
• Identify out of stock.

• Ensure that daily reports completed for each supplier.
• Ensure all Ad Hoc communication sent to line managers per instructions.
• Pull sales report/ used Company instore reports.
• Complete perigee reports for all clients.
• Manage client requests on WhatsApp groups.

• Ensure you are at work by the prescribed time and have communicated to the line manager in according to company policy.
• Completed any check in procedures at store as required.
• Ensure you are in full uniform. Uniform clean, neat, and ironed.

• South African Unemployed youth between the ages of 18 and 34.
• Must not have participated on the YES programme before.
• Matric.