Health Consultant Vitamins and Supplements at Dis-Chem Gateway
Dis-Chem Pharmacies · Umhlanga, KwaZulu Natal
Overview
Dis-Chem is looking for a Health Consultant to join their Gateway store in Umhlanga. If you have a passion for vitamins and supplements and enjoy helping customers find the right health products, this full time retail role offers a market related salary plus commission, medical aid, provident fund and a staff account. It is a great opportunity to grow your career with South Africa's leading health and wellness retailer.
About the role
As a Health Consultant at Dis-Chem's Gateway store, you will be the go to person for customers looking for vitamins and supplements. Your main focus will be promoting and selling Dis-Chem Health Focus products while delivering excellent customer service. You will help customers understand what products suit their needs, keep the health section looking great, and make sure promotions are well displayed.
What you will do:
- Assist and advise customers on vitamins and supplements
- Maintain stock levels and face up merchandise displays
- Implement promotional displays and merchandising material
- Report price discrepancies to management
- Follow health department admin processes including weekly returns and stock control
- Work towards monthly team, brand and vendor targets
- Keep up to date with new products and product lines
Important to note: Only successful applicants will be contacted. If you have not heard from Dis-Chem within two weeks after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. Dis-Chem is an equal opportunity employer and actively supports the recruitment of People with Disabilities.
Requirements
- Grade 12 or Matric
- Minimum of 6 months sales experience in a vitamins or health environment
- Strong command of the English language
- Computer literate in MS Office
- Sound numerical skills
- Willing and able to work retail hours
- BSc Biomedicine or BSc Biotechnology qualification advantageous
- Sales experience in a retail environment advantageous
- Experience in the health industry (vitamins, supplements or health foods) advantageous
- Fluent in a second language prominently spoken in the area advantageous
- Valid driver's license and own reliable transport
- South African citizen with clear credit and criminal records
- Physically fit for walking, standing, climbing, kneeling, bending, and pushing, pulling, lifting and moving objects
Responsibilities
- Assist and advise customers while ensuring the highest levels of customer care and service
- Assist with back shopping when requested to support 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 including weekly returns, stock control and monitoring of stock levels
Benefits
Market related salary plus commission, medical aid, provident fund, staff account
Job details
- Organisation
- Dis-Chem Pharmacies
- Location
- Umhlanga, KwaZulu Natal
- Job type
- Full time
- Experience level
- Entry
- Education
- Matric
- Category
- Retail & Wholesale
- Application Method
- Apply online
Success Guide
If you are applying for this Health Consultant role at Dis-Chem Gateway, make sure your CV clearly shows any sales experience you have, especially in vitamins or health products. Even six months in a health shop counts, so highlight it.
Since you will be advising customers, it helps to show that you know your supplements. In an interview, you might be asked about common vitamins or how you would help a customer choose a product. Brush up on the basics of Dis-Chem's Health Focus range.
Also remember that retail hours are part of the job, so be ready to talk about your flexibility. And if you have a second language spoken in the Umhlanga area, mention it because it is a big plus with customers.
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