🛒🚨 JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT 🚨🛒
CASUAL MERCHANDISER – RICHARDS BAY
Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited
📍 Location: Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal
📌 Division: Retail
📌 Employment Type: Part-Time
📅 Posted: 16 September 2026
📅 Closing Date: 30 September 2026
🎓 Minimum Qualification: Grade 12 / Matric
💼 Experience: Entry Level / Up to 6 months’ retail experience
🏢 Industry: FMCG
💰 Salary: Market-related
📢 ABOUT THE POSITION
Dis-Chem Pharmacies is looking for a Casual Merchandiser to join its Richards Bay store.
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that Dis-Chem’s merchandising standards are properly maintained while providing customers with friendly, helpful and professional service.
This is an opportunity for an individual who is interested in retail and FMCG, enjoys working with customers and can work effectively in a busy store environment.
🛍️ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- Restocking merchandise as required to maximise sales.
- Ensuring delivered stock and stock taken from the storeroom is packed and stored correctly and timeously.
- Checking that products on shelves have not reached their sell-by dates.
- Ensuring the full product range is available on shelves where required.
- Rotating stock regularly according to the FIFO (First In, First Out) principle.
- Reporting low stock levels, out-of-stock products, damaged stock and expired stock to management.
- Assisting with stock counting and general stocktaking.
- Following Dis-Chem operating standards, store layouts and planograms.
- Flattening boxes after unpacking stock and taking them to the designated area.
- Ensuring shelves and products are neatly displayed, visible and correctly labelled and priced.
- Reporting price discrepancies to management.
- Keeping up to date with current and new products.
- Building, facing, stocking and maintaining merchandising displays.
- Maintaining the general appearance and cleanliness of the store and merchandise displays.
- Taking responsibility for designated stock in the storeroom and on the shop floor.
- Assisting with the loading and off-loading of stock.
- Ensuring items without barcodes are clearly marked.
- Assisting with back shopping.
- Providing assistance and guidance to new staff when required.
- Providing friendly, helpful and courteous assistance to customers.
- Following up on customer out-of-stock queries.
- Resolving customer stock-related queries.
- Wearing the correct uniform and name badge at all times.
- Handling merchandise carefully to minimise losses.
- Following Dis-Chem policies, procedures, SOPs and health and safety regulations.
⭐ SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
Applicants should have:
- Strong command of the English language.
- Good customer-service skills.
- Professional and presentable appearance.
- Ability to engage effectively with customers, management and colleagues.
- Trustworthiness and honesty.
- Good time-management skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Advantageous:
- Ability to speak more than one language.
- Knowledge of merchandising standards and the FMCG industry.
- Product and category knowledge.
- Knowledge of stocktaking and ordering processes.
- Ability to identify and report suspicious or inappropriate behaviour.
🎓 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Essential:
- Grade 12 / Matric
- Up to 6 months’ retail experience
- Computer literate, including MS Office
- Willing and able to work retail hours
Advantageous:
- At least 1 year of retail experience
📌 SPECIAL CONDITIONS
Applicants must:
- Be willing and able to work retail hours.
- Be physically fit and able to lift and move heavy boxes.
- Follow all applicable health and safety standards.
- Have reliable transport and/or live close to the store.
- Be a South African citizen.
- Have clear credit and criminal records.
💰 REMUNERATION
Market-related salary.
Only successful applicants will be contacted. If you have not been contacted within two weeks after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Dis-Chem Pharmacies is an equal opportunity employer. Its Employment Equity Plan and targets will be considered during the recruitment process, and the company supports the recruitment of People with Disabilities.
📌 JOB DETAILS
Position: Casual Merchandiser
Company: Dis-Chem Pharmacies Limited
Location: Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal
Employment Type: Part-Time
Division: Retail
Industry: FMCG
Experience Level: Entry Level
Closing Date: 30 September 2026
📢 If you meet the requirements, apply before the closing date!
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