Health Zone Consultant (Sport) - Unicare Bellville

Industry: Pharmaceutical Sector

Job category: Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain

Contract: Permanent

EE position: Yes

Clicks Group

Unicare is currently seeking to appoint a Health Zone Consultant (Sports Supplements) that is passionate about customer service. The role will be based at Unicare 24 Hour Pharmacy in Bellville and will report to the Assistant Floor Manager.

• 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 implement 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.

• At least 1 year related experience
• Selling skills; customer related training
• Experience working with sports nutrition and vitamin related products

• Essential: Matric (Maths 50%/Maths Lit 60%, English 50% and a pass in Life Science or Physics)

• Desirable: 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
• Customer and service orientation
• Basic computer literacy
• Relating and Networking
• Persuading and Influencing
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Following Instructions and Procedures
• Presenting and Communicating InformationAchieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives