Health Consultant - Canal Walk

Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 89,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-related salary + commission

Medical aid

Provident fund

Staff account

Job summary

Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited is seeking a Health Consultant specialising in Vitamins and Supplements for the Canal Walk, Century City store. You will promote and sell Dis-Chem Health Focus products through exceptional customer service and product knowledge.

Responsibilities include advising customers, maintaining displays, achieving brand and vendor targets, and keeping up to date with product lines while delivering high standards of care in a retail environment.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 / Matric is essential.
• Minimum 6 months’ sales experience in vitamins/health.
• Strong command of English, both spoken and written.
• Computer literate – MS Office.
• Sound numerical skills and retail hours flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Assist and advise customers with high levels of care.
• Maintain stocked, faced displays in Health Focus area.
• Report price discrepancies to management.
• Support promotions, merchandising and promotional displays.
• Achieve monthly team, brand and vendor targets.
• Stay up to date with new products and lines.
• Follow Health Department processes, stock control and returns.

Skills

Promotions & selling

Customer service

English language

Report analysis

Team player

Time management

Honesty & integrity

Education

Grade 12 / Matric

BSc Biomedicine or related health field (adv)

Job description

Dis-Chem Pharmacies' requires the services of a reputable Health Consultants specialising in Vitamins and Supplements for their Canal Walk, Century City store.

You will be responsible for effectively promoting and selling Dis-Chem Health Focus products through consistent customer service,

Minimum Requirements

Essential

• 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

Job description

• 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, to ensure the effective operation of the department and store
• 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, but not limited to, weekly returns, stock control and monitoring of stock levels

Competencies

Essential

• Promotions and personal selling
• Customer service
• Strong command of the English language
• Basic report analysis
• Team player
• Time management
• Honest and trustworthy

Advantageous

• Product knowledge and stock control
• Bilingual

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

Remuneration and benefits

• Market-related salary + commission
• Medical aid
• Provident fund
• Staff account

Dis-Chem Pharmacies is an equal opportunity employer. Dis-Chem’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process aligned to Dis-Chem’s Employment Equity & Transformation Strategy. Dis-Chem actively supports the recruitment of People with Disabilities.