Saince
Website:
saince.com
Job details:
Saince Pharmacy · Based in Hyderabad. Reports to the Founder & CEO · Field-based across all stores in AP and TS States.
About Saince Pharmacy
Saince Pharmacy is building something a pharmacy in India has rarely been: a premium hub of health, wellness and fitness. We want customers to feel, the moment they step in, that they've walked into a considered, aspirational space that takes their wellbeing seriously. We've built a strong retail foundation and a growing store network — and now we're ready to elevate the in-store experience to fully match the brand we're building. That's the opportunity this role exists to lead.
The role in one line
Own how every Saince Pharmacy store looks, feels, and sells — bringing our brand vision to life as a consistent, premium, revenue-generating in-store experience across the chain.
Why this role matters
This is where brand vision meets the physical shelf. You will define what makes a Saince Pharmacy store distinctive — the reason a customer chooses us and remembers the experience. It's a founder-priority hire with direct access to, and a direct mandate from, the CEO, and the creative freedom to set the standard from the ground up.
What you'll own
- Set the visual and merchandising standard. Define what a Saince Pharmacy store looks like — layout, zoning, fixtures, lighting, signage, colour, category adjacencies, and the customer journey from entrance to counter. Codify it into a store playbook and planograms that every store can execute consistently.
- Build the wellness & fitness destination. Design and merchandise the wellness, nutrition, fitness, personal-care, and self-care categories so they feel curated and premium. This is where our differentiation lives, and it's the part of the store you'll make unmissable.
- Run the promotions calendar. Plan and execute in-store campaigns, seasonal themes (immunity season, New Year fitness, women's health, diabetes awareness, etc.), new-product launches, and cross-sell/bundle displays that lift basket size and move the right inventory — coordinating with our procurement and category priorities.
- Design point-of-sale and in-store communication. Own the creative for shelf-talkers, danglers, end-caps, window displays, counter units, posters, and digital screens — briefing or working with designers and producing store-ready assets that hold a consistent brand language.
- Drive consistency across the chain. Visit stores in person on a regular cadence, assess them against the standard, train and coach store staff on stocking and display, and hold the bar so the fiftieth store looks as sharp as the flagship.
- Merchandise for both beauty and margin. Use sales, stock, and margin data to place high-velocity and high-margin products where they earn the most, manage planogram compliance, and make sure premium presentation and commercial performance pull in the same direction.
- Elevate the whole experience. Sweat the details that signal "premium" — cleanliness, fixture quality, staff grooming and uniforms, ambient music and scent, wayfinding, queue and counter experience — and continuously raise the standard.
Who you are
- A creative with commercial teeth. You have genuine visual taste and can also read a sales report and merchandise for margin. Both, not either.
- Dynamic and hands-on. You're as comfortable dressing a window at 8am as presenting a campaign plan to the founder. You move fast, prototype, and iterate rather than waiting for perfect.
- A systems-builder. You don't just make one store beautiful — you make it repeatable across many, through playbooks, training, and audits.
- Field-energised. You want to be in stores, with staff and customers, not behind a desk. Frequent travel across our store network energises rather than drains you.
- A brand guardian. You hold a standard high, while coaching people up and building their pride in the space.
Experience & skills
- 5+ years in visual merchandising, retail experience design, retail marketing, or store operations — ideally in premium retail, beauty/cosmetics, wellness, lifestyle, FMCG, organised pharmacy, or hospitality, where presentation is a competitive weapon.
- A portfolio that shows store designs, displays, campaigns, or spaces you've created — we want to see your eye.
- Working knowledge of planograms, category management, and merchandising-for-margin principles.
- Fluency (or strong literacy) with design tools and briefing designers; comfort producing store-ready POS and creative.
- Experience training and managing store-level staff and driving consistency across multiple locations.
- Willingness to travel extensively across our stores in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
- Multi-lingual strongly preferred, for coaching store teams effectively.
A pharmacy background is welcome but not required. We would rather have a brilliant retail-experience mind who can learn our categories than a pharmacy operator who can't merchandise. If you've made a beauty counter, a wellness store, or a lifestyle brand feel special, we want to talk.
Why join Saince
- A real mandate and creative freedom: you set the standard and build the experience.
- Direct line to the founder and the authority to make change stick.
- The chance to build a category-defining retail experience — a premium wellness pharmacy — on a strong and growing foundation.
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