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Fresh Foods Manager at Shoprite Group of Companies
Shoprite Group of Companies
September 16, 2026
Full-time
On-site
About the role
As a Fresh Foods Manager, you are a customer and team role model, providing leadership and directing the highest level of quality service by creating a pleasant and friendly atmosphere while treating every customer and team member like family! You build and embody a positive store culture of trust through honesty, integrity, and respect.
Living Our Shoprite Leadership Way means that you actively manage, coach and develop people to build a high performing team. Promoting a good image of the Checkers brand is important to you, which is why you work hard to achieve your department goals by following and implementing company standards (including health and safety requirements), driving customer satisfaction and profitability targets and proactively managing, monitoring and maintaining effective sales of Fresh products, food safety and hygiene standards, people management, capacity requirements, shop floor presentation aligned to merchandise plans and loss control.
What you'll do
Manage customer experience and engagement
Fresh Foods people leadership, development, management and administration
Fresh Foods P&L management and reporting
Fresh Foods merchandising, pricing and promotional activity
Fresh Foods stock availability, quality, rotation and loss prevention (money and stock)
Fresh Foods housekeeping and compliance with health & safety, food safety and supermarket operational company policy and procedures
Oversee staff scheduling and WFM edits to ensure operational standards are met whilst simultaneously ensuring effective cost management
Accountable for wastage management
Ensure adherance to recipes, productions plans
Expense management and control
Maintain service levels and operational standards
Report analysis and actioning thereof
Management and overseeing of promotional activity
Account for stock/ingredient stock ledger accuracies, investigate stock ledger discrepancies together with the Stock Admin, identify the cause of shrinkage lines and problem solve to reduce those shrinkage lines
What you bring
Requirements
Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential)
Retail Management diploma or equivalent (Desirable)
Two years or more supervisory experience in a retail environment (Fresh produce) with exposure to the Supermarket procedures (Essential)
Driver's Licence (Essential)
Computer literate - MS Office Basic, Supermarket systems and technologies
Knowledge and understanding of:
Store operations management, promotional planning, merchandising, and stock handling principles
Financial management and reporting - sales target, profitability and budget planning & control
Food Safety & hygiene and the OHSA
Building a culture of trust and respect
Learning agiliity
Customer obsession
Ability to deliver results with integrity
Quality orientation with strong attention to detail
A commercial way of thinking with good problem solving skills
Ability to lead, direct and build a high performing team by coaching and developing others
Listed above are minimum requirements to perform this role.
Willingness to work retail hours is a standard minimum requirement for supermarket roles
Closing Date
2026/09/21
As a Fresh Foods Manager, you are a customer and team role model, providing leadership and directing the highest level of quality service by creating a pleasant and friendly atmosphere while treating every customer and team member like family! You build and embody a positive store culture of trust through honesty, integrity, and respect.
Living Our Shoprite Leadership Way means that you actively manage, coach and develop people to build a high performing team. Promoting a good image of the Checkers brand is important to you, which is why you work hard to achieve your department goals by following and implementing company standards (including health and safety requirements), driving customer satisfaction and profitability targets and proactively managing, monitoring and maintaining effective sales of Fresh products, food safety and hygiene standards, people management, capacity requirements, shop floor presentation aligned to merchandise plans and loss control.
What you'll do
Manage customer experience and engagement
Fresh Foods people leadership, development, management and administration
Fresh Foods P&L management and reporting
Fresh Foods merchandising, pricing and promotional activity
Fresh Foods stock availability, quality, rotation and loss prevention (money and stock)
Fresh Foods housekeeping and compliance with health & safety, food safety and supermarket operational company policy and procedures
Oversee staff scheduling and WFM edits to ensure operational standards are met whilst simultaneously ensuring effective cost management
Accountable for wastage management
Ensure adherance to recipes, productions plans
Expense management and control
Maintain service levels and operational standards
Report analysis and actioning thereof
Management and overseeing of promotional activity
Account for stock/ingredient stock ledger accuracies, investigate stock ledger discrepancies together with the Stock Admin, identify the cause of shrinkage lines and problem solve to reduce those shrinkage lines
What you bring
Requirements
Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential)
Retail Management diploma or equivalent (Desirable)
Two years or more supervisory experience in a retail environment (Fresh produce) with exposure to the Supermarket procedures (Essential)
Driver's Licence (Essential)
Computer literate - MS Office Basic, Supermarket systems and technologies
Knowledge and understanding of:
Store operations management, promotional planning, merchandising, and stock handling principles
Financial management and reporting - sales target, profitability and budget planning & control
Food Safety & hygiene and the OHSA
Building a culture of trust and respect
Learning agiliity
Customer obsession
Ability to deliver results with integrity
Quality orientation with strong attention to detail
A commercial way of thinking with good problem solving skills
Ability to lead, direct and build a high performing team by coaching and developing others
Listed above are minimum requirements to perform this role.
Willingness to work retail hours is a standard minimum requirement for supermarket roles
Closing Date
2026/09/21