Job Description
Job Description
The role of the Product Specialist is to provide exceptional customer service for full product selection of the Home Health Care (HHC) department products, communicate and collaborate with leaders and community to drive sales and grow overall Durable Medical Equipment (DME) business. This will allow the Product Specialist to deliver expertise through high-quality interactions regarding products and services and build loyalty while helping customers on their path to better health.
Responsibilities % Time
1. Customer Interaction
- Engage with customer proactively as they shop in the Health quadrant, HHC department, or from Pharmacy, Front Store, and Minute Clinic referral.
- Seek out customers and ensure they have an amazing experience through great service, including targeted and suggestive selling. Provide personalized service and build relationships with customers during their store visits and through subsequent follow-up contact.
- Inquire about individual customer needs for products.
- Provide differentiated service to customers or caregivers.
- Provide assistance regarding product selection in HHC department or Health quad.
- Educate customers on product specifications, comparison, benefits, use, and maintenance and recommend related products.
- Provide product fitting when applicable (e.g., compression or CPAP masks).
- Offer assembly where applicable and assist the customer with checkout.
- Special order products as appropriate or assist customer with expanded aisle online.
- Instruct customers through follow-up phone calls and in-person consultations regarding product use, maintenance, and troubleshooting. 60%
2. Department Maintenance
- Partner with quadrant owner to maintain inventory management of HHC department.
- Special order when needed.
- Ensure price changes are posted weekly.
- Maintain the department, products, fixtures, and consult area as clean and neat.
- Maintain supplies needed for outreach and consult area.
- Check Email, Phone, and Voicemail twice daily.
- Refresh planograms as required 10%
3. Community Outreach
- Complete community outreach weekly to nearby provider offices, CVS locations both in person and over the phone to build relationships and share product offerings.
- Collaborate with other team members including pharmacy staff, and other front store providers where applicable to holistically help customers and caregivers with product referrals or needs. 20%
4. Communication and Follow-up
- Communicate with Field Management and Corporate Health Services team.
- Act on sales and customer feedback reporting to improve customer interaction and increase sales.
- Ensure compliance with federal and state laws, rules and regulations and CVS policy and procedures.
- Communicate with customer while protecting their confidential health information according to HIPAA.
- Partner with and reports to Market Lead for continued development including trainings and feedback on service and sales building results.
- Must have flexible work availability to meet the needs of customers. 10%
Required Qualifications
REQUIRED SKILLS:
1. Outstanding customer service focus and experience in sales
2. Ability to adapt to customer or caregiver needs, in a fast-paced retail work environment.
3. Confidence to speak with customers regarding sensitive and confidential topics.
4. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
5. Excellent interpersonal skills.
6. Strong influencing and sales-building skills.
7. Desire to learn and apply information provided in company and vendor trainings, policies, and procedures.
8. Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, and Office Suite.
9. Capacity to communicate professionally over the telephone.
10. Heavy lifting, standing, bending, sitting, and prolonged walking.
Preferred Qualifications
PREFERRED SKILLS:
1. Knowledge and experience in home health care, DME product sales, or related health care field.
2. Proficiency in use and maintenance of sleep apnea equipment.
3. Experience working in an independent DME or pharmacy setting.
Education
Verifiable High School diploma or GED is required.
Business Overview
At CVS Health, we are joined in a common purpose: helping people on their path to better health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient-focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart.
The role of the Product Specialist is to provide exceptional customer service for full product selection of the Home Health Care (HHC) department products, communicate and collaborate with leaders and community to drive sales and grow overall Durable Medical Equipment (DME) business. This will allow the Product Specialist to deliver expertise through high-quality interactions regarding products and services and build loyalty while helping customers on their path to better health.
Responsibilities % Time
1. Customer Interaction
- Engage with customer proactively as they shop in the Health quadrant, HHC department, or from Pharmacy, Front Store, and Minute Clinic referral.
- Seek out customers and ensure they have an amazing experience through great service, including targeted and suggestive selling. Provide personalized service and build relationships with customers during their store visits and through subsequent follow-up contact.
- Inquire about individual customer needs for products.
- Provide differentiated service to customers or caregivers.
- Provide assistance regarding product selection in HHC department or Health quad.
- Educate customers on product specifications, comparison, benefits, use, and maintenance and recommend related products.
- Provide product fitting when applicable (e.g., compression or CPAP masks).
- Offer assembly where applicable and assist the customer with checkout.
- Special order products as appropriate or assist customer with expanded aisle online.
- Instruct customers through follow-up phone calls and in-person consultations regarding product use, maintenance, and troubleshooting. 60%
2. Department Maintenance
- Partner with quadrant owner to maintain inventory management of HHC department.
- Special order when needed.
- Ensure price changes are posted weekly.
- Maintain the department, products, fixtures, and consult area as clean and neat.
- Maintain supplies needed for outreach and consult area.
- Check Email, Phone, and Voicemail twice daily.
- Refresh planograms as required 10%
3. Community Outreach
- Complete community outreach weekly to nearby provider offices, CVS locations both in person and over the phone to build relationships and share product offerings.
- Collaborate with other team members including pharmacy staff, and other front store providers where applicable to holistically help customers and caregivers with product referrals or needs. 20%
4. Communication and Follow-up
- Communicate with Field Management and Corporate Health Services team.
- Act on sales and customer feedback reporting to improve customer interaction and increase sales.
- Ensure compliance with federal and state laws, rules and regulations and CVS policy and procedures.
- Communicate with customer while protecting their confidential health information according to HIPAA.
- Partner with and reports to Market Lead for continued development including trainings and feedback on service and sales building results.
- Must have flexible work availability to meet the needs of customers. 10%
Required Qualifications
REQUIRED SKILLS:
1. Outstanding customer service focus and experience in sales
2. Ability to adapt to customer or caregiver needs, in a fast-paced retail work environment.
3. Confidence to speak with customers regarding sensitive and confidential topics.
4. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
5. Excellent interpersonal skills.
6. Strong influencing and sales-building skills.
7. Desire to learn and apply information provided in company and vendor trainings, policies, and procedures.
8. Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, and Office Suite.
9. Capacity to communicate professionally over the telephone.
10. Heavy lifting, standing, bending, sitting, and prolonged walking.
Preferred Qualifications
PREFERRED SKILLS:
1. Knowledge and experience in home health care, DME product sales, or related health care field.
2. Proficiency in use and maintenance of sleep apnea equipment.
3. Experience working in an independent DME or pharmacy setting.
Education
Verifiable High School diploma or GED is required.
Business Overview
At CVS Health, we are joined in a common purpose: helping people on their path to better health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient-focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart.
We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status or on any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.
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