Beauty Specialist

Listing reference: woolw_001069
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 7 February 2025
Position summary
Industry: Wholesale & Retail Trade
Job category: Customer Service
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
EE position: No
Introduction
MAIN PURPOSE You must be target-driven and passionate about beauty to deliver exceptional customer service in a specialized beauty environment. You must also be able to sell products across brands to any customer.
Job description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Demonstrates customer service through customer promises
  • No customer unseen or unserved
  • Identify customer needs to provide optimal service by 
  • Takes responsibility for serving the customer and finding solutions to customers’ queries.
  • Actively manage the client registry by sourcing new customers and managing existing    
  • Approach all customers and offer assistance in the beauty department.
Applies selling skills
  • Meets customers' needs and expectations by asking, listening to, and advising them about the available options/services/products.
  • Offers alternatives to the customer if merchandise is not available.
  • Achievement of sales and unit targets
  • Creating and Managing beauty events. 
Effective management of stock
  • View and print reports to better understand stock movement and department growth.
  • Maximize sales and ensure stock availability in the department by communicating with relevant buyers and planners 
  • Ensures launches are put out timeously, and all appropriate ticketing (silent salesman) is in place.
  • Ensures stock rotation is in place within the department.
Demonstrates product knowledge and standard
  • Identifies the location of products in their department.
  • Develops in-depth product knowledge to deliver excellent product knowledge to the customer.
  • Maintains specialized areas to meet and exceed operational excellence standards.
Adheres to shopkeeping disciplines

·       Maintains hygienic, safe and well-organized sales floor and back areas.

·       Maintains specialized areas to meet and exceed operational excellence standards.

Minimises Shrinkage
  • Reporting acts of dishonesty related to shrinkage and fraud to your line manager or shrinkage hotline.
  • Understand and apply Red Flag processes where applicable.
  • Ensures a buddy system is in place in your area.
  • Awareness of suspicious activity in your area
  • Report suspicious individuals in your area to security or management.
Demonstrates personal leadership
  • Demonstrates self-discipline concerning attendance, dress code, hygiene and time-keeping.
  • Attends/is informed of the game plan/team meeting to know the day’s focus.

Minimum requirements

Technical Skills:

  • Preferably Grade 12 or equivalent NQF level
  • Minimum of 2-5 years retail experience 
  • Minimum of 2- 5 years as a Beauty Consultant in role
  • Experience in generic beauty selling highly advantageous.
  • Experience in working and achieving beauty sales targets highly advantageous
  • Willing and able to work different shifts

Behavioural Skills:

  • Passion for the Brand and Customers
  • Passion for the Customer – establish lifelong relationships with our customers
  • Passion for Retail and Selling
  • Living the Brand’: Personal leadership and attitude to work i.e., ‘the difference’   
  • Versatile communication skills
  • Planning and Organising and Personal Effectiveness
  • Thinking Strategically and Commercially
  • Delivering High Performance
  • Making Insightful Business Decisions and having an Innovative Merchant Mindset

 

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