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Budtender PT

Part-time

PharmaCann

Ottawa, ILPart-time$18/hrPosted 1w agoStill listed 5 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$18/hr
Location
Ottawa, IL
Schedule
Part-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

PharmaCann’s Budtender creates a customer-focused experience at a retail cannabis dispensary, supports sales and hospitality goals, and helps customers learn about products and their usage. The role includes maintaining product and industry knowledge, accurately processing transactions, following dispensary protocols, and supporting other operational functions as needed. Pay starts at $18 per hour.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer ServiceAnalytical SkillsMathRegister ManagementProblem SolvingComputer SkillsInterpersonal CommunicationSales TechniquesProduct KnowledgeCannabis Laws and RegulationsPhysical StaminaLifting

Qualifications

Must Be 21+High School Diploma2 Years Retail Customer ServiceValid Driver's LicenseMotor Vehicle Record Check

Full job description

PharmaCann, Inc. owns and operates best-in-class production facilities and retail dispensaries for cannabis-based products. We currently operate in the States of Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Colorado and Michigan as a medical and/or adult use cannabis provider to patients and customers. We are looking for energetic, results-driven individuals to join our rapidly growing team and industry.

Job Description

The Budtender is responsible for creating a world-class customer experience for all customers. The Budtender will promote a positive, customer service-oriented, and compliant work environment This position is accountable for executing initiatives that achieve all hospitality goals at the retail PharmaCann location.

The Budtender is responsible for compliance with all policy and procedures and all other operational objectives of the business., as well as executing visual standards and presentation needs to customer requirements, product performance, along with sales and marketing objectives. The Budtender must be passionate about their role and have a strong willingness to help people become educated about cannabis.

Pay for this role starts at $18/hour

Duties and responsibilities or (Essential Functions)

  • Meet & exceed personal sales volume and KPI goals.

  • Assist in building a great company and business that disrupts the traditional retail model and embrace change.

  • Add value to the team by being an authentic and confident self-leader who strives to execute our world-class hospitality program.

  • Drive repeat business through strong local networking and customer data capture, patient confidence inspiration, and building of patient loyalty.

  • Maintain up to date knowledge on products and industry knowledge, including cannabis laws and regulation.

  • Proactively answer customer questions and ensure knowledge of products and usage.

  • Execute high customer experience standards, to include a world-class culture and industry-leading customer engagement through strong sales techniques and product knowledge.

  • Accountable for accurately utilizing PharmaCann’s Point of Sale system.

  • Execute customer transactions with high attention to detail and ensure accuracy in register transactions.

  • Execute PharmaCann’s dispensary protocols including safety protocols.

  • Complies with all security, safety, and legal requirements.

  • Must be able to accommodate flexible scheduling expectations including weekend, evening, and holiday schedules.

  • Maintain a clean and organized point of sale area.

  • This role is required to assist and/or perform other duties as assigned, as well as in other functions of the operation, including but not limited to: call center, inventory, outreach, security, delivery acceptance, delivery, and visual merchandising.

  • Dependent upon the state and/or location, this position may be required to hold a current driver’s license and maintain a good driving record.

  • Projects a positive image of the organization to employees, customers, industry, and community.

  • Embodies the culture, values, and tenets of PharmaCann and full support of our purpose, goal, and key objectives.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 21 years of age (or as required by state regulations)

  • A minimum of a High School diploma is required.

  • Minimum 2 years’ experience with customer service in a fast-paced retail environment

  • Strong analytical skills to assess data, facts, and figures

  • Intermediate-level math skills

  • Proven expertise and experience to accurately manage a register

  • Exceptional customer service skills

  • Strong attention to detail and ability to solve and resolve problems in a calm, professional, and courteous manner.

  • Strong computer-based skills

  • Dynamic interpersonal and communication skills

  • Business-minded personality

  • A highly self-motivated and ethical individual

  • Valid driver’s license and ability to successfully pass a Motor Vehicle Record background check (state specific)

Working conditions

  • Requires weekend/holidays altering rotation

  • Requires overtime according to business needs

  • Must remove all jewelry, including rings, brooches, watches, pins, earrings, necklaces and visible piercings. In addition, false nails, nail polish, false eyelashes and any other object that may possibly contaminate food is not allowed in the processing/production areas

  • Requires work in varying temperature-controlled environments

Physical requirements

Standing, walking, bending, working with hands/arms at an extended horizontally or above head position for long periods and lifting up to 50 pounds, lifting/carrying product totes, pushing carts, moving and making adjustments to process equipment.

Notice: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 8,506 open Retail Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$18/hr
  • Illinois median$16–18/hr241 hourly ranges
  • US median$17–20/hr3,892 hourly ranges

This rate, $18/hr, is 3% above the Illinois median midpoint ($18/hr) — in the middle half of Retail Sales hourly ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 296 open Retail Sales jobs in Illinois and 8,506 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Retail Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (1,762 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,654 of the 8,506 open Retail Sales jobs (31%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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