Description What you’re great at: • Discovering customer needs and providing service in a prompt and courteous manner. • Providing a rewarding shopping experience with accurate labeling of product shelf tags, price stickers and/or signs. • Effectively managing inventory by pulling back stock and re-pricing goods while processing new product deliveries. • Sharing your working knowledge of wellness offerings and trends. • Displaying excellent interpersonal skills. A day in the life: • Purchase specific product lines (vitamins, supplements, herbs, and natural body care products) to maintain appropriate in-stock levels, inventory turns, to ensure a steady supply of products customers want and to adequately accommodate specials. • Evaluate vendors and investigate new sources of supply for recommendation to Wellness Manager. • Review vendor and broker promotional offerings and work with the department management in the development, implementation and coordination of sales promotions. • Ensure accurate, up-to-date price labeling (or shelf tags) for department items. • Provide product information to customers, staff and sampling/demo staff. Stay abreast of developments in natural products industry through reading trade publications and talking with brokers. • Negotiate with vendors/brokers for demo samples and allowances and hand off to sample/demo staff for their implementation. • Review all invoices and makes corrections to cost, size, price, etc., where required. • Monitor and when necessary adjust product min/max settings to ensure adequate amounts of product are available while avoiding overstocking. • Regularly review margins and make recommendations for adjustments to department management. • Participate in inventory counts and price change projects. • Participate in the organization of staff and vendor meetings.