Job Description
Dis-Chem Pharmacies’ requires the services of a reputable Health Consultant specialising in Vitamins and Supplements for their Mthatha new store. You will be responsible for effectively promoting and selling Dis-Chem Health Focus products through consistent customer service.
Requirements
• Grade 12 / Matric
• Minimum of 6 months’ sales experience in a Vitamins / Health environment
• Strong command of the English language
• Computer literate – MS Office
• Sound numerical skills
• Willing and able to work retail hours
• Advantageous: Qualification in BSc Biomedicine and/or BSc Biotechnology, or relevant qualification within the health focus field
• Sales experience in a retail environment
• Experience in the health industry (vitamins, supplements or health foods)
• Fluent in a 2nd language prominently spoken in the area
Skills
• Promotions and personal selling
• Customer service
• Basic report analysis
• Team player
• Time management
• Honest and trustworthy
• Advantageous: Product knowledge and stock control
• Bilingual
Duties and Responsibilities
• Assist and advise customers, and ensure the highest levels of customer care and service are met
• Assist with back shopping when requested to do so
• Keep merchandise displays in the health focus area stocked and faced up
• Report all price discrepancies to management as they appear
• Adhere to store layouts within the Health Department
• Ensure broadsheet items are well displayed, merchandised, promoted and available
• Implement promotional displays and merchandising material
• Achieve monthly team, brand and vendor targets
• Keep abreast with new products and product lines
• Follow the Health Department’s administrative processes and procedures, including weekly returns, stock control and monitoring of stock levels
Special conditions of employment
• Willing and able to work retail hours
• Able and physically fit for walking, standing, climbing, kneeling, bending, and pushing, pulling lifting and moving objects
• Valid driver’s license and own reliable transport
• South African citizen
• Clear credit and criminal records
Closing Date
24 February 2025