Applications are now open for the 2025 Mr Price JumpStart Professional Retail Programme. Click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About Mr Price Foundation JumpStart Professional Retail Programme
Opportunity Details
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.
Benefits of Mr Price Foundation JumpStart Professional Retail Programme
What You will learn
- 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
Mr Price Foundation JumpStart Professional Retail Programme 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.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
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