Sales Assistant - Pets, Animal Care Supplies
621111 · Medium Next-day readyDescription
Sells goods and services in relation to the care and supply of pets.
Typical work tasks
Determines customer requirements and advises on product range, price, delivery, warranties and product use and care; demonstrates and explains to customers the establishment's goods and services; sells goods and services; accepts payment for goods and services by a variety of payment methods and prepares sales invoices; assists with the ongoing management of stock such as product inventories and participates in stocktakes; stacks and displays goods for sale, and wraps and packs goods sold.
Typical work environment
- Indoor retail shop environment.
- Works at counters and deals directly with the public.
- Will usually work in adequately heated and ventilated
- Workspaces will usually be clean and well-maintained and set-up to provide a welcoming sales environment for customers. However, animal environments will be soiled.
Typical physical and mental demands
- Typically light to medium work demand level.
- Frequently stands at sales counters or walks about the workspace assisting customers, locating merchandise, shelving product or setting up shop displays.
- Manually or electronically enters customer purchases into the till, receives cash, cheques, eftpos and credit card payments and processes these and issues receipts. May issue customers sales invoices.
- Lifts and passes items purchased across the scanner (where used) and may need to wrap or pack goods.
- Stretching and or twisting movements are likely to be required occasionally when moving items on the shop floor or re-stocking shelves.
- Lifting, pulling or carrying requirements will be occasional and of a light to medium physical demand level for most of these types of products.
- Bending, squatting or crouching movements are likely to be needed occasionally for the picking up of goods and the demonstration of certain products.
- Repetitive hand and finger movements are frequently necessary to operate electronic tills, computers and pricing guns.
- Driving is not likely to be required.
- Use of office hand-held equipment such as pens or calculators will be occasional.
- Mental skills necessary include communication, memory, recording and calculating.
No formal entry barrier — can start without prior training. Flagged next-day ready.
How this was determined (model-generated): Pet/animal care supplies retail sales; no formal entry requirement or licence.
Entry Requirements
An NZQF Level 1 qualification, or compulsory secondary education (ANZSCO Skill Level 5).
For some occupations a short period of on-the-job training may be required in addition to or instead of the formal qualification. In some instances no formal qualification or on-the-job training may be required.
Further Comments
- There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.