Work-Force
Listing live now. Role: Retail Buyer. Location: Soweto, Gauteng. The team is hiring and seeks a candidate who can step in and deliver from week one.
About This Position
This Retail Buyer role has been briefed against a clear set of outcomes for Soweto. The successful candidate will work alongside an established team and will be expected to contribute meaningfully to the retail jobs pipeline across Gauteng.
The organisation keeps reporting lines clean and expectations realistic. Performance is measured against a small, agreed set of metrics, and there are no surprise yardsticks for the Retail Buyer taking on this position.
Internal documentation, process notes and shared playbooks make it easier for the Retail Buyer to step into the retail jobs workflow quickly. Institutional knowledge is well-organised, so people are not reinventing the wheel from one week to the next.
Career Growth
Career progression here is real, not a slogan. The retail jobs space in Soweto offers a clear runway from delivery into team leadership and beyond, and managers sit down with each team member regularly to map out the next step in Gauteng.
Training is a mix of formal courses, structured on-the-job learning and exposure to broader projects, all geared at building practical skills.
On top of that, internal mobility is encouraged. People who start in Soweto have moved into roles in other branches, specialist functions and project teams across Gauteng.
Our Commitment to Transformation
Inclusion is a core part of how the team operates. This is an equal-opportunity employer, and candidates from all communities — including women, youth and persons living with disabilities — are encouraged to apply for this role in Soweto.
B-BBEE compliance is more than a scorecard here. It informs how the business invests in skills development, supplier diversity and community engagement across the country.
Practical steps back the words. Structured EE reporting, transformation initiatives and learnership programmes give real opportunities to candidates from across Gauteng.
Key Responsibilities
- Train new team members on store procedures and product knowledge
- Maintain visual merchandising standards on the sales floor
- Assist with receiving deliveries and verifying goods against invoices
- Replenish stock and rotate displays in line with promotional cycles
- Keep the store, change rooms and stockroom clean and organised
- Prepare daily, weekly and monthly sales reports for the store manager
- Support stock counts and assist with cycle-count investigations
Candidate Profile
- Experience with stock counting and basic inventory principles
- Customer-first mindset with a friendly, approachable manner
- Comfortable operating point-of-sale systems and handling cash
- Strong verbal communication skills in English; second language an advantage
- Visual merchandising flair or formal training is an advantage
- Ability to work as part of a team in a fast-paced retail environment
- Matric / National Senior Certificate (Grade 12)
Each application is reviewed carefully, and strong matches against the criteria above will move forward in the process.