Pharmacy Assistant

Apollo Pharmacy; Ranipet; On-site; INR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo Pharmacy in Ranipet, Tamil Nadu seeks a Pharmacy Assistant to support dispensing medicines, counsel patients, and manage stock. The role covers home delivery coordination, cash handling, and ensuring accurate billing and documentation.

You will assist with in-house stock, cross-check bills, monitor expiry dates, and help achieve sales targets while maintaining compliant pharmaceutical practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmacy retail is preferred.
• Willingness to work with prescription medicines and patient education.
• Eligibility for candidates with non-pharmacy qualification but relevant pharmacy retail experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist pharmacist in dispensing drugs according to prescriptions.
• Counsel patients about medicines and health information.
• Handle inbound calls for drug information and home delivery orders.
• Process billing at the counter and manage cash transactions.
• Check stock, expiry dates, and batch numbers; raise stock indents as needed.
• Maintain stock tallies and ensure 100% stock verification for categories.
• Support inventory management and sales targets for the pharmacy.

Skills

Patient counseling

Stock management

Cash handling

In-store operations

Customer service

Job description

PHARMACY ASSISTANT / PHARMACY AIDE

Assist the Pharmacist in dispensing drugs according to a prescription issued by the doctor.

In case the prescribed medicines are not available, arrange the same from the in-house pharmacies for the honor of 100% prescription.

Substitution of medicines is to be consulted with the doctor Cross check the issuing medicines with the bill concerning patient name, items name, quantity, expiry and acknowledge the bill Checking out the availability of stock in the pharmacy and based on the availability of stock-raising the indent for the stock.

Customer Service

To counsel the patients /customers on health, the reaction of medicines.

To maintain good relations with customers/doctorsTo maintain the free home delivery register and follow-up the medicines deliveries to the customers in time.

Handle all the inbound calls primarily focusing on drug information, patient counseling/education, and free home delivery orders. Also, handle patient queries and issues concerning drug therapy and drug information.

Handle cash in billing counter as and when required.

Cold Chain Management

Storing the drugs under proper conditions of refrigeration and security To prepare bills in computer and collect the cash.

Check quantity, MRP, batch number, and date of expiry of the received items from stores before entering into computer

Inventory Management & Sales

• To enter stocks in computer and take the printout of receipt from stores (RS) for cross-checking with items issues list from stores based on the stock availability
• If necessary importing/exporting the stock from nearby pharmacies through BT (Branch Transfers)
• If a stock is not available at near pharmacies, directly communicating with DC – in charge and visiting the DC and collecting the necessary stock with the period based on the emergency
• To maintain the record for no stock items and follow-up the same
• Ensure that 100% physical stock is tallied according to category (Tablets, Syrups, Injections, Fluids, Ointments, Liquids, Capsules, Powders, Drops, Surgicals, and Miscellaneous) twice a week
• Daily rack wise verification of fast-moving items
• Ensure shift hand-over and take-over is given before leaving the work area
• Focus on sales and strive to attain the target of the pharmacy
• Perform any other job assigned by the in-charge as per exigencies of work

Compensation & Benefits

This job is on company rolls offering competitive pay, benefits and attractive incentives.

NOTE: Eligibility for candidates with Non- Pharmacy qualification with relavant Pharmacy Retail experience ONLY.