Applications Open for the Mr Price JumpStart Professional Retail Programme

Applications Open for the Mr Price JumpStart Professional Retail Programme. The Professional Retail Programme is based in Durban only and is a eight-month graduate internship designed to build merchants of the future. The programme won’t guarantee you a job but if successful, you gain credible work readiness experience that retail employers are looking for spaces are limited.

About the Progamme

Designed by retailers, the Professional Retail Programme (PRP) builds merchants of the future. An eight-month graduate internship, it equips graduates for specialised entry-level roles in the retail world.  Graduates learn the key roles and responsibilities of the retail value chain; and how these add value to business and consumers. The internship is delivered through a cloud-based learning platform and a combination of classroom, self-study and group project work, along with four months of hands-on work experience in selected retail environments.

Requirements

• South African
• Aged 18-33 years
• Unemployed
• No criminal record
• Diploma or degree, or a final year student, in any of the following:
  • B.Com,
  • Operations Management,
  • Management or Business Management,
  • Business Science,
  • Retail Management,
  • Graphic Design,
  • Fashion Design,
  • Clothing Management or other retail related qualifications. 

Benefits

• Foundational skills
• Introduction to the world of retail
• The macro retail environment
• Strategy
• Retail product development
• Managing trade – support centre
• Managing trade – operations
• Customer engagement
• The retail business system
• Product and pipeline
• The merchandise cycle and achieving results
• Trading for merchants
• Trading for retailers

How to Apply

Apply online and submit the following:

• Copies of ID and qualifications 
(if graduated) or academic record 
(if not graduated).

We’ll contact you if your application is successful.

Closing Date: 10 December 2024