Health Consultant - Queenstown

Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited; Oos-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical aid

Provident fund

Staff account

Job summary

Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited seeks a Health Consultant specializing in vitamins and supplements for the Komani (Queenstown) store in the Eastern Cape. You will promote and sell health focus products through consistent customer service and friendly product guidance.

Essential requirements include Grade 12, 6 months of vitamins/health sales experience, strong English, MS Office proficiency, and numerical skills. Willingness to work retail hours and maintain stock in health displays.

Qualifications

• 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: BSc Biomedicine and/or BSc Biotechnology or related health field
• Advantageous: Retail sales experience and health industry exposure
• Advantageous: Second language spoken in the area

Responsibilities

• Assist and advise customers, ensuring high levels of customer care and service
• Assist with back shop tasks to support department and store operations
• Keep health focus displays stocked and faced up
• Report price discrepancies to management
• Adhere to health department layouts and merchandising standards
• Ensure health items are prominently displayed, promoted and available
• Implement promotional displays and merchandising materials
• Aim to achieve monthly team, brand and vendor targets
• Stay updated on new health products and lines
• Follow health department processes for stock control and returns

Skills

Promotions and personal selling

Customer service

English language

MS Office

Time management

Team player

Honest and trustworthy

Education

Matric

BSc Biomedicine

BSc Biotechnology

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Dis-Chem Pharmacies' requires the services of a reputable Health Consultant specialising in Vitamins and Supplements for their Komani (Queenstown) store in the Eastern Cape Region.

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.