If you LOVE, have a PASSION for, and experience real JOY in:

• Being VULNERABLE and sharing your HABC EXPERTISE with Vitamins, Herbs and Beauty Care or potential expertise with our wonderful Strathcona Community of customers and staff
• Product learning that never stops in our health industry
• Helping people reinvent their lives with NUTRITIONAL LIFESTYLE CHANGES
• Growing in a TEAM that strives for their best, pulls together, and treats you, for better or for worse, like FAMILY, with lots of radical transparency

Customer Engagement Clerk must possess genuine excitement to help our customers. The role is responsible for ensuring customers are served effectively, leave educated on the products within the store, and are provided answers for their questions. The target is to ensure proper application of Customer Relationship Excellence and maintain high customer satisfaction while growing sales.

Work Performed

Customer Service & Engagement

• Greet customers and engage with them in accordance with their interest, being attentive to their needs
• Communicate with customers with high level of professionalism and with a positive and friendly nature
• Address and answer questions about products in all departments, and the natural foods industry
• Understand and consistently demonstrate and apply all 6 steps of Customer Relationship Excellence (CRE)
• Share stories about our company, products in all departments, vendors and farmers with customers
• Manage and resolve customer complaints effectively and understand when a situation requires a manager’s intervention
• Actively promote events and marketing initiatives
• Other duties as required

Produce Knowledge

• Develop ongoing knowledge of nutrition, health, wellness, lifestyle and diets broadly and actively share knowledge with customers and team members
• Actively participate in all mandatory trainings
• Utilize active listening and apply appropriate judgement when advising customers on products which are appropriate for them
• Guide customers through their health journey to their best choice

Active Produce Promotion

• Support ongoing interactive and engaging programs to educate customers on the value of products and services from the store.
• Communicate sales and promotions, make sales referrals, cross-sell and introduce new products
• Advocacy of brand and core values
• Other duties as required

Qualifications

• High School diploma preferred
• 1-2 years retail experience and In depth knowledge of the Natural Foods Industry and its products
• Exceptional customer service skills and Proven sales skills
• Passion for sharing information and stories of products, services, vendors and experiences
• High EQ – developed ability to relate with people sensitively, tactfully, diplomatically and professionally at all times
• Perceptive and attentive to the needs of others
• Friendly, positive attitude and high energy
• Highly flexible, with solid interpersonal skills that allow one to work effectively in a diverse working environment
• High care for product integrity and proper product handling
• Strong organizational skills and Self motivated
• High initiative and willingness to communicate concerns directly
• Above average Service Orientation
• Computer knowledge and Time management skills
• High personal ethics and integrity
• Ability to work well under pressure and Dependability