Position Title: PT Pharmacy Clerk
Position Type: Part time
Job Requisition ID: 46076
Banner: Food Basics
Employment Type: Permanent
This position is part of a unionized bargaining unit. The hourly wage for this position starts at $16.60 and is established in accordance with the collective agreement. Depending on a candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, education, and prior experience, a higher hourly wage may be offered. Any hourly wage offered for this role, whether starting or higher, will fall within the wage scale established for this position in accordance with the collective agreement.
This is a posting for an existing permanent part-time position.
Location: 751 Upper James Street South, Hamilton, ON
Shift: Days, Evenings & Weekends
Become Our Pharmacy Clerk at Food Basics!
Are you looking for an exciting role where you can make a real difference? As a Pharmacy Clerk, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our pharmacy area is always well-stocked and visually appealing for our customers. Your responsibilities will include keeping the shelves properly stocked and displayed, as well as providing courteous, friendly, and efficient service to every customer.
This is your chance to make a real impact and be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community care. Apply now and start your exciting journey with us!
What You’ll Do:
- Assists with the proper ordering, rotation and inventory control of product in the department.
- Maintains good knowledge of the products carried and the display of products within the department.
- May also assist with end displays, seasonal displays, etc.
- Receives orders and ensures product received matches invoices and is received in good condition, and then is stored/put away appropriately.
- Enters and reconciles invoices/credits and maintains shrink logs.
- Provides customer assistance with merchandise on the sales floor and at the cash register and responds to specific requests regarding product information and location within store.
- May be assigned to do re-lines within the department.
- Maintains scanning / price integrity within the pharmacy department.
- Maintains store standards and conditions and may be assigned to clean up spills in the aisles, sweep floor, and clean shelves as required.
- Performs inventory-related tasks.
- Checks emails and responds accordingly.
- Answers phones as required.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Pharmacy Manager or Pharmacist.
- Follows all applicable Company policies and procedures, Government regulations, Health and Safety and Food Safety regulations.
Qualifications:
- Customer service driven.
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Good product knowledge and attention to detail.
Key Relationships:
As a Pharmacy Clerk, you will receive direction from the Pharmacy Manager and Pharmacist. You'll interact with internal contacts, including Pharmacy Operations, Pharmacy Merchandising, Inventory Control and Audit, Store Services, McMahon, and Metro IT. Additionally, you'll engage with external contacts, such as customers and direct pharmacy vendors like McMahon and others.
The responsibilities and relationships assigned to this role may change as is necessary to achieve Metro's business objectives.
Disclosure on Use of Artifical Intelligence in Recruitment: At METRO, we are commited to transparency and fairness in our hiring practices. In compliance with Ontario's Employment Standards Act (Bill 149), we disclose that METRO and certain third-party job boards we use incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in screening, assessing, or selecting applicants for positions. The use of AI helps us efficiently review the large volume of applications we receive, ensuring that every candidate's profile is considered promptly and consistently. This technology supports our goal of providing an equitable and streamlined recruitment experience for all applicants. While AI tools support our recruitment procedures, all decisions throughout the process are made exclusively by METRO's Talent Acquisition team or METRO employees. At no stage does AI determine recruitment outcomes.
METRO is committed to providing an inclusive work environment that reflects the communities we serve. The company values, respects and relies on the diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and points of view because it allows us to innovate, make better decisions and better understand our customers. We will consider qualified applications from all walks of life to build the best team.
We encourage you to let us know if your current condition requires accommodation in the recruitment process so that we can accommodate you.
Please note that we will only contact those whose applications are selected.
We respectfully request that agencies do not contact us or send us unsolicited applications.
