Manager

Manager – Food Services Centre

Salary: (T12/C4) R33 252.72 per month (Basic Excluding Benefits)

Job Purpose:

• Provide leadership and direction in managing and expanding the food services centre activities.
• Implement plans regarding community outreach programs.
• Administer and oversee the food services centre.
• Work extensively with non-govenmental organizations in order to serve the public.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee activities in the food services centre.
• Monitor and evaluate programmatic and operational effectiveness, and effect changes required for improvement
• Design, establish and maintain an organizational structure and staffing to effectively accomplish the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Manage personnel, which include work allocation, training and problem resolution, evaluates performance and make recommendation for personnel actions, motivates employees to achieve peak productivity and performance.
• Represent the JFPM at stakeholder meetings.
• Facilitate process of sending thanks to donors of produce.
• Assist with the poverty alleviation initiatives undertaken by the marketing department of social development.
• Purchase stock on the JFPM trading floor as per client requirements.
• Raise and record invoices for purchases.
• Ensure accurate dispatch of orders.
• Receive and process orders for clients.
• Submit monthly reports as required.
• Manage and operate allocated budget.
• Establish and implement short and long range organizational goals, objectives, strategic plans, policies and operating procedures.
• Perform miscellaneous job related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 /NQF Level 4
• NQF Leve; 7 Qualification
• 5 Yeas relevant experience in fresh produce industry specifically in stock control

Joburg market is an equal opportunity employer. All appointments will be made in accordance with Joburg Market employment equity policy. Joburg Market reserves the right not to make an appointment.

Email to: MFSC@joburgmarket.co.za

Please note all CV’s must the have the following:

1. Cover Letter
2. Certified copy of ID
3. Supporting qualifications

If not attached, your applications will be rejected.

NO APPLICATION FORMS MUST BE COMPLETED

By submitting your application for a position at Joburg Market, you are consenting that the personal information submitted as part of your application may be used for the purpose of Recruitment and Selections and related process.

Please take note that if you are not contacted after 4 weeks of the closing date, consider your application unsuccessful.

NB: Applicants from Indian, Coloured and White population group are encouraged to apply.

The closing date is the 27th of August 2024 at 12:00 pm

I will you all the best with your applications.

VISION

To build a smart, globally competitive fresh-produce trading hub.

MISSION

To catalyse the growth of the City of Joburg’s economy by:

• Providing trading facilities for both smallholder farmers and large commercial farmers; and 

• Improving the buyers’ experience of fresh-produce procurement at Joburg Market.

VALUES

Transparency

Integrity

Innovation

Accountability

South Africa’s Premier Food Hub

Every week, Monday to Saturday, traffic gets much heavier on Heidelberg Road in the City Deep area of Johannesburg early before 5 am. This is because most vehicles are taking the turnoff marked “Joburg Market” – the one stop destination for retailers, shopkeepers, street traders, restaurateurs, housewives and exporters alike. They all come to the Market to access the widest variety of fruit and vegetables ever imaginable.

From its humble beginnings, it has grown consistently to become the largest fresh produce market in South Africa and all of Africa by volume and value.

By way of comparison, the Joburg Market is twice the size of the second ranked market in the country and bigger than 17 other local markets.

The Market serves about 5 000 farmers from across South Africa who send their fresh produce to be traded to a large buyer base, averaging about 10 000 daily.

Trade takes place via a commission system with the Market charging the producer a mere 5% commission on all sales made on the commission floor. A further negotiable levy of 7,5% is paid to Market Agents for selling produce on behalf of the farmer.

Trade takes place in three (3) Foodhubs, namely: Fruit Hub, Potato & Onion Hub and Vegetable Hub measuring a total of 65 000m2.

This remarkable market is easily accessible from the main freeways and is located just 5km south of Johannesburg´s central business district.

As value-adding services, the Market has 55 cold rooms which can accommodate 4 561 pallets of fresh produce, and 50 banana ripening rooms which can handle 1 590 pallets of bananas at any one time.

The Joburg Market is wholly owned by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and stands out as one of the best performing entities of the City.

The Joburg Market has an interesting and illustrious history that dates back to the 19th Century. The Market has its origins in what was then called Market Square in the centre of Johannesburg in 1886. As the City grew, the market also attracted huge volumes of both producers and buyers, prompting authorities to move it to Newtown, west of the city centre.

However, by 1972, the Market was literally bursting at the seams in the confined space in Newtown and, again, there was need to find a spacious site that would accommodate the expanding producer and buyer base of the Market. Consequently, the City of Johannesburg decided on the present site in City Deep.

Later still, the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council decided that it needed to confine its interests to core activities, a decision that led to the forming of the iGoli 2002 plan. The Joburg Market, then known as the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market, was deemed a non-core function of the Metro Council and was corporatised in July 2000, becoming the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market (Pty) Ltd. The Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, however, remained the sole shareholder of the Market.

By 2009, the Market had become highly successful and a leading player on the African continent in the fresh produce sector. To enhance its brand and new reputation, a decision was taken to change the company name from Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market to a simpler Joburg Market with new a new logo

COJ DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

OPPORTUNITY CENTRE – CITY DEEP

The Department of Economic Development has rolled Opportunity Centres (OCs) across the city to provice range of integrated services to support the SMMEs in line with the city’s objectives to grow the economy of Johannesburg and create much needed jobs. So far, seven OCs were opened i.e. in Johannesburg CBD (Khoebo OC), Roodepoort, Isiwqalo OC, Diepsloot OC, Thlabologo OC, Klipfonteinview OC, Thusanag OC, Alexandra OC, Ikamvalethu OC, Diepkloof (Soweto), Atlegang OC, and Montclare OC, Simunye OC. Two new business centres have been opened in Eldorado Park and Joburg Market. These Opportunity Centres serve as one-stop-shops for emerging and established SMMEs who require advice and support to grow their businesses. The City has partnered with various government and private organisations to provide effective support.

standard services provided for free

The following standard services are provided at all Opportunity Centres for free:

• General Business information and guidance
• Company registration
• Business plan assessments
• Gap analysis
• Development plans
• Training sessions on issues such as Financial Literacy, marketing, Sales, and operations management, tax compliance, etc.
• Facility usage such as the use of meeting rooms, boardrooms and internet services for business research.
• Funding research and Facilitation including funding product awareness and guidance on application processes
• Assistance with the City’s supplier and database compliance
• Business idea generation and supply chain training to improve access to markets
• Referrals to relevant business support services
• Free access to Wi-fi

All Opportunity Centres will host an opportunity seeker’s database where job seekers can submit their CVs.

Government and the private sector will be able to access the database to link Registered job-seekers to work opportunities. 

CONTACTS

For all opportunity centers’ contact details download the COJ guideline document here.

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+27(0) 11 061 3152 

The Peoples Market

The People’s Market (formerly Mandela Market) is a cash-market operated by more than 100 informal traders who sell both fruits and vegetables. They sell in smaller quantities, so you can buy loose fruit and vegetables. They close trading slightly later than the JM trading Halls so a customer can catch those purchases around mid-day towards lunch time (Monday – Saturday).

The JM is currently constructing bigger and better facilities which the People’s Market informal traders will move into in the coming months. They will also have cold-storage facilities, cooking and eatery facilities with modern seating structures. These improvements made by the Joburg Market will bring dignity to the informal trade.

Everybody is welcome to buy at the People’s Market. They sell in cash. You do not need a buying card to buy from them.

Unity Market

The Unity Market is another flea-market styled platform of informal traders who sell mainly vegetables, in small quantities ranging from loose bags to packets and reduces sizes and quantities. It is also a cash-market. It is located on the back of the trading halls (Food hubs) and has more than 50 informal traders selling a multitude of vegetables, in their varieties.