Sales Associate - PT

About the Role

As a Sales Associate, you have a passion for discovering customers' needs and goals and creates a unique shopping experience tailored for each customer. Our Sales Associates embody GNC's "Live Well" philosophy--living strong, living long, and living fit. In our stores, everyone plays a critical role in fostering a culture of winning, executing goals at the highest standards, and supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce.

Responsibilities

• Proactively greet and welcome every customer that visits GNC and create a welcoming environment to attract new and existing customers.
• Ability to genuinely interact with customers to help them choose the right products, as well as making recommendations based on your overall product knowledge and understanding of their needs.
• Drive for results to achieve and exceed store and personal sales and productivity goals.
• Fulfill online orders timely and accurately in compliance with company guidelines.
• Boost product knowledge by learning the features, advantages and benefits. Staying on top of nutritional, wellness, and fitness news.
• Support store management in the opening, closing and operating of a retail store. This includes cash handling, inventory count and deposits, and maintaining store appearance.
• When not servicing customers, actively restocking products, maintaining visual merchandising, fulfilling online orders, and performing cleaning duties.

Environmental Factors & Working Schedule

• Must be able to stand or walk for up to eight hours a day.
• Frequent reaching and bending and twisting - below waist and above shoulders.
• Frequently required to use repetitive hand-to-finger motions and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently lifting up to twenty pounds, occasionally lifting up to 40 pounds. Push/pull up to 20 lbs.
• Ability to climb ladders, reach and bend.
• Work in temperatures ranging from 50 - 85 degrees - especially in our stock room areas.
• Use of a computer up to 60% of the time throughout the day.
• Must be able to work varied hours and days to meet the needs of the store, including nights or mornings to open or close the store.
• Be able to work key peak business days/hours including weekends (Saturday and Sunday).
• Work all major U.S. holidays that the store is open.
• Sales Associates must be at least 18 years of age.

Benefits

• Opportunity to earn additional income through GNC's Individual Sales Incentive Plan
• Holiday Pay on Company observed holidays
• 401(k) with 4% employer match (match begins after 1 year of service)
• 30% employee merchandise discount on GNC products & 20% employee discount on 3rd party products
• Monthly Free Product Offers
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program