Sobre esta vaga de Merchandise Assistant na Bash.com
WE ARE BASH
Bash is South Africa's largest omnichannel shopping platform. We connect over 500 brands across the physical and digital world, for millions of South Africans, every day. We're building something with real scale and real consequence.
We're founder led, a team of true owners and humble learners. We work hard, hold a high bar, and show up for each other. The problems aren't easy and the pace is real but when you break through, the impact is felt across the business and by the customers who rely on us.
If that sounds like the kind of place where you'd do the best work of your career, we'd like to meet you.
We're looking for an organised, detail-oriented Merchandise Assistant to join the Bash merch team.
This role supports the buying and online merchandising process end-to-end; from order administration to product upload and imagery coordination. It's a great entry point into retail merchandising: some exposure to merch, buying, and e-commerce is a bonus, but we're just as interested in someone eager to learn, happy to get stuck into admin, new systems, repetitive tasks, and reliable under a busy workload.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Buying & Order Admin
- Support the team with placement, changes, and amendments of purchase orders
- Help maintain the buyplan ‘order book/buy-plan’ checking orders are placed on time, info is correct, and deliveries land as expected
- Compile, balance, and update spreadsheets and reports for the wider merch team
- Liaise with the inbound supply chain team on PO/delivery queries and investigations
Online Product & Imagery
- Ensure products are uploaded online on time, with correct imagery and sequencing
- Capture product attributes, categories, brands, descriptions and specs
- Check images are loaded correctly and help source/upload samples where needed
- Assist briefing imagery to studio and following up to completion
- Support quality assurance and audit checks on samples and imagery
General Support
- Investigate and help resolve product issues (system and reporting checks)
- Triage and prioritise vendor queries, escalating where needed
- Help coordinate elements for campaigns, promotions, and launches
- Build good working relationships with suppliers, studio, and internal teams
- Chase outstanding tasks across tracking documentation
- Work with inbound to resolve queries and order issues
- General office admin and ad hoc duties as required
WHO YOU ARE:
This job is for you if you have:
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Matric or equivalent NQF level 4
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Exposure to merchabdising, retail, and/or e-commerce
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Experience with Excel/Google Sheets (basic formulas; willingness to learn pivots and vlookups)
- A problem-solving mindset and a genuine appetite to grow into the merch function
We ask a few optional demographic questions to monitor fairness in hiring and comply with South Africa’s Employment Equity requirements. Your responses are confidential—stored separately from your application and never shown to hiring panels. We review the data only in aggregate to strengthen our sourcing so pipelines are diverse and all candidates receive equitable support. You can skip any question.
JOINING THE BASH TEAM
We believe in autonomy and self-driven individuals who thrive within some uncertainty so that they can fill those gaps with their uniqueness. The qualities that allow you to thrive are curiosity, proactivity and a bias to action. If you are these things, joining the Bash team will catapult your career and ensure you do the best work, pushing past your preconceived boundaries.
We don't believe in padding this section with things that sound good on paper. Here's what working at Bash actually looks like:
BASH PERKS
The people around you. We hire to a high standard, and you'll feel it. The talent at Bash will push your thinking, raise your game, and genuinely surprise you.
Real growth. A place that expands what you're capable of. You'll own more, stretch further, and build in ways a traditional corporate can't offer.
Top-of-market pay. The best people, in the right roles, earning at the top tier.
Time that's yours. We are flexible and don't measure time. We look at output.
Shopping perks. An exclusive discount across 500+ brands in-store and on bash.com.
