Truworths – Head Office Jobs – June

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Buyer – Cape Town

Closing Date
2026/06/22
Reference Number
TRU250109-2
Job Title Buyer
Business Area Merchandising
Job Type Permanent
Workplace Type On-site
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location – Town / City Cape Town
Job Description
Join South Africa’s leading fashion retailer and become part of a winning team. With over 700 stores, renowned aspirational brands and world class systems we are regarded as front-runners in this highly competitive environment.

Truworths has an pportunity for you to capitalise on your already strong skills and experience, which you have developed over the last six to eight years, either in retailing or clothing manufacturing as a Buyer in Ladieswear, Menswear, Kidswear, Accessories or Footwear.

Key Responsibilities You will need to have exceptional technical merchandising skills and the proven ability to interpret trends, conceptualise product and work individual fashion aspects such as colour, fabric and silhouette into an overall product strategy, culminating in practical delivery at retail level. Your energy, innovative approach and passion for product will ensure your competitive edge in this fast paced environment.
Qualifications and Experience

• 6 to 8 years of experience either in retailing or clothing manufacturing as a Buyer in Ladieswear, Menswear, Kidswear, Accessories or Footwear.
• A relevant tertiary qualification

Competencies

• Exceptional technical merchandising skills
• Proven ability to interpret trends
• Proven ability to conceptualise product
• Energy
• Innovative
• A passion for product environment

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Planner – Cape Town

Closing Date
2026/06/22
Reference Number
TRU250109-1
Job Title Planner
Business Area Merchandising
Job Type Permanent
Workplace Type On-site
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location – Town / City Cape Town
Job Description
Truworths has an opportunity for you to work with our Buying/Planning teams using the latest industry merchandise systems. The individual would be involved in sales forecasting, financial and strategic product management skills to effectively trade product. The role will be based at our Head Office in Cape Town, and would appeal to a skilled performer who enjoys complex problem-solving and is solution-orientated.

Drawing on your well-honed fashion planning skills, your role will be to develop, implement and control all aspects of merchandise planning to ensure the profitability and efficient servicing of our stores. The Planner plays a key role in the execution of product from inception to delivery. The role requires the individual to collaborate with all parts of the business e.g. distribution, store design, etc.

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with our fashion Merchandise Buyers and suppliers
• Systems used internationally in conjunction with bespoke in-house systems
• Ensuring that the right mix of merchandise reaches the right stores at the right price, right on time

Qualifications and Experience

• 3 or more years of experience preferably within a fashion retailer
• Relevant numerical tertiary qualification
• Advantageous systems e.g. Oracle, ProClarity and PLM

Competencies

• Strong analytical and organisational skills
• Numerical ability
• Systems oriented
• Strong trader instinct
• Willing and open to contributing ideas for the greater success of the business
• Ability to work in a high pressure and fast paced environment
• Agility, flexibility and adaptability

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Fashion Designer – Cape Town

Closing Date
2026/07/26
Reference Number
TRU251118-4
Job Title Fashion Designer
Business Area Merchandising
Job Type Permanent
Workplace Type On-site
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location – Town / City Cape Town
Job Description
At the centre of Truworths Ladieswear, Menswear and Kidswear success is the in-house Fashion Studio. This is where fashion trends are analyzed and ideas are generated from information sourced through trend institutes and international fashion fairs, whilst consultants in the major fashion capitals monitor trends from Retailers in the USA, UK and Europe.

Key Responsibilities
Using your considerable experience, expertise and great fashion eye you can absorb and work with these global trends to identify what is new and happening, in terms of colours, fabric, styles and trims for each Truworths brand for the next season.

Ability to communicate, energise and inspire our teams of Buyers, Planners and Merchandise leadership using this exciting fashion information to develop an extensive range of garments and styles with limited quantities of each item to ensure exclusivity.

Qualifications and Experience
Preferably 5 years of design experience in a similar fashion retail or creative manufacturing environment.
Alternatively, as the role requires you to practically apply your creative energy; you may be one of those rare breeds of Fashion Buyers, who can move between the two or have experience in both design and buying.
Competencies • Your skill set should include: Design skill ability with experience in the following: InDesign, Photoshop, and CAD skills with strong strength in product.

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Senior Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Developer

Closing Date
2026/06/08
Reference Number
TRU250127-8
Job Title Senior Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Developer
Business Area IT
Job Type Permanent
Workplace Type On-site
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location – Town / City Cape Town
Job Description
Build your place. Build your expertise.

Join South Africa’s leading fashion retailer and become part of a business and team where consistency, expertise and long-term contribution matter.

We are seeking an experienced Senior BI/DW Developer with a strong history of building enterprise-level data warehouses aligned with modern Business Intelligence standards. In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders and team members to define, design, and deliver actionable business insights. You will develop robust data, ETL, and reporting services to enable and support multiple business units.

We are looking for someoneeager to deepen their BI/DW technical expertise and business understanding, who enjoys engaging with stakeholders and partnering with business teams to develop and deliver effective data solutions.

This role suits individuals who value personal accountability and commitment to building excellence over time. Growth in this role comes from depth, reliability and sustained performance.

Key Responsibilities
Champion BI and DW Architecture.
Champion data quality, integrity and reliability within Truworths BI
Contribute to and grow architectural forums within Truworths BI
Data modelling (Dimensional, multi-dimensional and Relational)
ETL Architecture
Process Automation and Architecture
PL/SQL coding
Report Development
Promote Self-Service BI
IT and Business Process Optimisation
Data integration between legacy and modern systems
Interface with users to understand and agree on specifications
Ad-hoc scripts to facilitate user queries
Batch support
Batch scheduling
Agile Documentation
Participate in design, peer and code reviews
Daily technical, functional and operation support for existing Business Intelligence solutions
Contributes to the ideology and growth of moving the architecture to modern platforms, on-premises and/or cloud
Mentorship of mid-level and junior developers.
Qualifications and Experience QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc or B Com in Information Systems or IT/IS Diploma (Highly Advantageous) or substantial experience in a Data Warehousing or Business Intelligence environment.

EXPERIENCE / KNOWLEDGE

• Minimum 5 years data warehousing and/or ETL experience
• Architectural mind-set
• Data and report modelling experience
• Previous experience in retail systems an advantage
• Batch processing and scheduling experience
• Building and maintaining relationships with business users
• Documenting technical requirements from business briefs
  Competencies TECHNICAL
  Essential Competencies
• Enterprise Data Warehousing (Kimbal Method)/ Data Modelling and Design
• ETL (SSIS, IBM DataStage, Informatica, ODI or similar)
• PL/SQL or T-SQL scripting and optimization
• IT/Business Process Engineering
• Report Development
• Agile experience working in SCRUM

Advantageous Competencies:

• Oracle Database 11g/12c/19c
• Oracle OBIEE, Power BI reporting services
• Control M
• Merchandise/retail/financial/CRM systems experience
• Working with large volumes of transactional data
• Microsoft SQL Server Database services
• Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
• Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• Oracle ESSBASE
• SAS Viya and CAS services
• Low Code Development (Oracle APEX, Microsoft Power Apps)
• Power Query, M Language, and DAX
• Realtime Data processing/ Data Streaming (JSON, MongoDB, Kafka)

BEHAVIOURAL:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team Orientation
• Quick learner
• Highly self-motivated and driven
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to learn and share new technology and methodologies

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Retail Operations Admin & Risk Manager

Closing Date
2026/08/07
Reference Number
TRU260413-1
Job Title Retail Operations Admin & Risk Manager
Business Area Risk
Job Type Permanent
Workplace Type On-site
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location – Town / City Cape Town
Job Description
Build your place. Build your expertise.

Join South Africa’s leading fashion retailer and become part of a business and team where consistency, expertise and long-term contribution matter. An opportunity exists for a Retail Operations Admin & Risk Manager.

The Retail Operations Admin & Risk Manager is responsible for the effective planning, execution, and governance of operational risk, safety, and support services across the retail store network. The role ensures that stores operate in a safe, compliant, cost-effective, and well-controlled environment through the management of risk-related services, supplier contracts, budgets, and operational reporting.

This position is based at our head office in Cape Town.

Key Responsibilities
Managing the EAS requirements for all stores
Managing the annual Fire and Safety business requirements for all stores
Managing the multiple operational Guarding requirements and guarding supplier contracts, performance and relationships
Managing the multiple operational Cleaning requirements and cleaning supplier contracts, performance and relationships (including Pest and Hygiene)
Managing the multiple operational Cash in Transit (CIT) requirements and supplier contracts, performance and relationships Coordinating business requirements for stores Alarming and CCTV
Managing a small team to ensure that all store services are in place and that all service invoicing, journals and accruals are actioned and updated timeously
Ad hoc business reporting related to financial results and operational metrics
Managing the budgeting process for risk requirements for all stores (namely guarding, CIT, cleaning, hygiene, pest and fire contracts) Managing the operations Insurance requirements, supplier relationship and all claims
Chairing weekly and monthly operational meetings and steerco committees
Ad hoc operational projects
Qualifications and Experience
QUALIFICATIONS

Matric
Business Science or Bcom degree

EXPERIENCE / KNOWLEDGE

5 to 7 years’ relevant admin and retail risk experience
Minimum 5 years of management experience
Retail experience an advantage
Competencies
TECHNICAL

MS office
Excellent MS Excel skills an advantage
Power BI reporting capabilities an advantage
Excellent analytics skills
Good writing skills advantageous
Excellent administrative skills
Excellent numeracy skills
Excellent coordination skills

BEHAVIOURAL

Energetic, Self-driven and motivated
A sense of urgency is required
Attention to detail
Customer centric
Good communicator
Team player & flexible to highly dynamic environment
Process orientated
Hard-working
Able to Multitask
Passionate about risk technology

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