Listing status: Online
Apply by: 7 February 2024
Position summary
Industry: Wholesale & Retail Trade
Job category: Other: Health, Fitness, Medical and Optometry
Location: Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
Introduction
To offer exceptional service to all customers by providing knowledgeable service and basic advice on healthcare, nutrition and supplementation in order to maximise sales and build customer loyalty.
Job Description
Job Objectives:
- To deliver exceptional customer service through in-store visibility and proactivity to customer needs through knowledge and understanding of health and supplements.
- To consult with customers and provide suitable advice on healthcare, nutritional and supplement products.
- To drive healthcare sales in line with targets through promotion of a broad range of brands by cross selling and upselling to increase profitability.
- To drive stock availability in the healthcare aisles through compliance with stock management principles and procedures in order to drive sales.
- To prevent wastage in own area by adhering to stock rotation principles.
- To prevent stock losses by following all risk management policies and principles.
- To ensure high standards of hygiene and cleanliness within the store in order to create an appealing shopping environment for customers.
- To assist in product merchandising by following the merchandising guidelines and procedures.
- To adhere to all store standard operating procedures.
- To ensure continuity of service by focusing on own development and product knowledge and sharing product information with relief staff.
Job Knowledge:
- Essential: Basic health, fitness and supplements product knowledge
- Essential: Basic knowledge of retail store operations principles (stock management, merchandising, risk management, )
- Essential: Good communication and interaction skills
- Essential: Customer and service orientation
- Essential: Selling skills
- Essential: Merchandising skills
- Desirable: Basic computer literacy
- Essential: At least 1 year related experience
- Essential: Experience working with sports nutrition and vitamin related products
- Essential: Selling skills; customer related training
- Essential: Matric (50% pure/ 60% lit)
- Essential: English 50%
- Essential: Pass in Life Science/Physics
- Desirable: Sports / fitness / nutrition qualification
Essential
- Relating and Networking
- Persuading and Influencing
- Following Instructions and Procedures
- Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
- Presenting and Communicating Information
- Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
- Coping with Pressures and Setbacks
- Adapting and Responding to Change
- Adhering to Principles and Values
- Planning and Organising
- Working with People
- 27 - 40hrs
All positions will be filled in accordance with our Employment Equity plan. We also encourage people with disabilities to apply.
