Assistant Vitamin Manager - Full-time / Part-time

The Assistant Vitamin Manager is responsible for assisting with the sales and operation of the Vitamin Department, and for supervision and scheduling of team members.  This position ensures that customers receive the best possible service and assistance with vitamins, supplements, and health and beauty products to help them better understand and respond to their health and wellness issues. 

Essential Functions

• Provides excellent customer service, helping customers with questions, locating items, and providing guidance on supplements, health and beauty, and related products without “prescribing”
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of vitamins, supplements, and other health and beauty items in the department
• Assists in recruiting, hiring, developing, mentoring and motivating the Vitamin team, taking and documenting corrective actions when needed
• Ensures maximum productivity and efficiency through proper scheduling
• Helps to achieve required sales, margin, expense and labor goals
• Maintains proper product assortment, merchandising and inventory control to avoid out of stocks and overstocks; assures control accuracy and accountability of department invoices and expenses
• Ensures all inferior out of code products are not sold and removed from display
• Prepares, packages, stocks, stores and displays merchandise appropriately
• Maintains safe, clean and well-organized working and shopping environment
• Complies with all regulatory and company rules, regulations, and sanitation standards
• Assists Vitamin Manager in all operations of the department and fills in as needed
• Provides leadership through professional conduct, and leads by example
• Listens to customer complaints, examines returned merchandise, and resolves problems to restore and promote good public relations
• Assists team in research and acquisition of any item/items requested by customers in a timely manner
• Assists sales workers in completing difficult sales
• Orders, stocks, faces and cleans as needed

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• High school diploma or equivalent supplemented with college courses in nutrition or related field, and a minimum of 1 year of vitamin, homeopathy, or holistic experience with leadership duties; or an acceptable combination of education and experience
• Strong knowledge of vitamins and supplements, and a passion for holistic health
• Clear and effective communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to multi-task
• Outstanding customer service skills
• Ability to effectively manage in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work varied hours/days as business dictates

Physical Requirements

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position or that a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Requires vertical/horizontal lifting and carrying of up to 50 lbs., from 1” to 34”, for up to 3 hours, for a distance of 2 feet without mechanical assistance
• Must be able to push a utility cart of product up to 20 lbs., up to 20 hours, for a distance up to 20 feet
• Will need to move a ladder to access product requiring a force up to 5 lbs., up to 2 hours, for a distance up to 25 feet
• Upper body force up to 10 lbs. for up to 2 hours is required
• Will need to open and close bottle requiring a coupling force up to 5 lbs. for up to 500 hours
• Using a 2 step stool is required for up to 2 steps per hour per shift
• Using a ladder is required for up to 3 rungs per hour per shift
• Squatting and bending to access a point 6” from the floor for up to 20 hours
• Standing for 3 hours continuously, for a total of 7 hours per shift; walking up to 3 miles per 7 hours
• Must be able to work days, nights, weekends, and holidays
• Requires working inside with controlled temperature
• Good vision required for reading directions/instructions on products, as well as on packing slips

This job may have specific physical demands including, but not limited to, the following:  ability to lift up to 75 lbs.; ability to operate machinery with moving mechanical parts; and ability to bend, reach, kneel, squat, stand for a long period of time and push/pull heavy loads.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. 

Qualified candidates will be contacted.  To learn more about all of the benefits of working at Sprouts and how you can become part of our growing team, apply on-line at .  Sprouts Farmers Market is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

2014

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Sprouts’ management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.