Starke Ayres : Sales Assistant (Fixed)

Starkeayres; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 50,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Starke Ayres, a leading supplier of premium seed varieties, is seeking a Sales Assistant based in Cape Town to support customer interactions and sales activities during a maternity leave. The role entails providing excellent customer service, assisting customers in a friendly manner, and ensuring the nursery area is well-maintained and organized.

Qualifications

• Essential: Grade 12 National Senior Certificate.
• Essential: Diploma in Horticulture.
• At least one year of nursery assistant experience.

Responsibilities

• Provides excellent customer service, assisting with purchases.
• Maintains and organizes sales areas, ensuring cleanliness.
• Assists with annual stock taking.

Skills

Customer Service

Sales Skills

Product Knowledge

Education

Grade 12 National Senior Certificate

Diploma in Horticulture

Job description

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Description

Starke Ayres is the foremost African specialist and global supplier of premium vegetable, flower and lawn seed varieties – both for commercial and home garden planting.

The following position has become available for a Sales Assistant, based in Rosebank, Cape Town.

This position is for a fixed period to assist where maternity leave is taken. The purpose of this role is to maximize the sales of the Company's nursery range of products through effective displays, maintenance of sales areas, and assistance to customers in a helpful and friendly manner, offering advice as and when required.

RESPONSIBILITIES : Provides excellent, professional customer service at all times, ensuring a positive shopping experience.Assists customers with purchases by advising or sourcing relevant advice from horticultural personnel.Loads customers' trolleys with their purchases and guides them to the till points, assisting the cashier with capturing the correct code / price of products.After payment, carefully loads purchases into the customers' vehicles, ensuring that all trolleys are returned to the trolley areas as per seasonal operational requirements.Upsell and cross-sell to customers and inform them about promotions in order to maximize sales.Assists with the correct labeling of plants and packs them in their correct sales areas.Prepares areas for new stock.Ensures that sales areas are always kept neat and tidy and that plants are effectively displayed.Assists with annual stock take.Maintains and upgrades the display / area behind Information.Assists with Specials.Responsible for the maintenance of a demarcated area of the Nursery in a clean and tidy condition at all times.Maintains all plants in the demarcated area in a clean, healthy, and saleable condition.REQUIREMENTS : Grade 12 National Senior Certificate (Essential)A Diploma in Horticulture (Essential)Nursery assistant experience for at least one year.

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