Shoprite invites suitably qualified applicants to apply for their Meat Market Manager Vacancies (Permanent Position). The closing date for applications is 02 January 2026. This opportunity is ideal for experienced meat industry professionals who are ready to step into a leadership role within one of South Africa’s largest and most trusted retail groups.
If you have solid butchery experience, understand quality standards, and enjoy managing people and stock in a fast-moving retail environment, this role offers stability, growth, and the chance to make a real impact every day.
Shoprite is one of the biggest retailers in Africa, serving millions of customers daily. The company is known for its focus on affordability, quality, and customer satisfaction. Behind every successful store is a strong management team that ensures departments run smoothly, and the Meat Market is one of the most important areas in any store.
As a Meat Market Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team, maintaining high standards, and ensuring customers always find fresh, quality meat products. This role combines leadership, planning, quality control, and customer service, making it a key position within the store.
This is a management position that focuses on running a well-organised, efficient, and customer-focused butchery. Your main goal is to ensure that the Meat Market operates smoothly by managing stock, staff, budgets, hygiene, safety, and quality standards.
You will also be responsible for implementing value-added promotions, ensuring product availability, and keeping customers satisfied with both service and product quality.
One of your main duties will be managing staff within the Meat Market. This includes scheduling, guiding daily activities, setting expectations, and ensuring team members perform their duties correctly.
You will be expected to motivate staff, address performance issues, and create a positive working environment that supports teamwork and accountability.
Customer satisfaction is at the heart of this role. You must ensure that customers receive quality products, friendly service, and a clean, safe shopping environment.
Handling customer queries, resolving complaints, and making sure the Meat Market meets customer expectations are all part of your daily responsibilities.
Effective stock management is critical in a Meat Market environment. You will be responsible for planning stock levels to ensure product availability while avoiding unnecessary waste.
This includes ordering stock, monitoring sales trends, rotating products correctly, and ensuring that fresh meat is always available on the shelves.
You will take full responsibility for quality control activities within the Meat Market. This means ensuring that all meat products meet Shoprite’s quality standards and comply with food safety regulations.
You must monitor handling, storage, preparation, and display of meat products to ensure consistency and safety at all times.
The Meat Market Manager is also responsible for managing administrative functions. This includes completing reports, managing budgets, controlling costs, and ensuring accurate record-keeping.
Good administration helps the department stay profitable and organised, and it supports informed decision-making.
Maintaining strict hygiene and safety standards is essential in a meat environment. You will manage all hygiene and safety activities within the Meat Market, ensuring compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
This includes staff hygiene, equipment cleanliness, safe food handling, and adherence to workplace safety standards.
From time to time, you may be required to handle ad-hoc responsibilities to support the team and store operations. Flexibility and a hands-on approach are important qualities for success in this role.
To be considered for this role, you must have:
This qualification shows specialised training in meat handling and preparation.
Shoprite is looking for candidates with strong industry experience. The ideal candidate should have:
This experience ensures that you understand both technical and leadership aspects of the role.
To succeed as a Meat Market Manager, you should have the following knowledge and skills:
This role offers a chance to grow your management career within a respected retail group. It provides job security, responsibility, and the opportunity to lead a key department that directly affects customer satisfaction and store performance.
If you have the right experience, leadership ability, and passion for quality meat products, the Shoprite Meat Market Manager position could be the next big step in your professional journey.
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