A Career in Natural Medicine

Not necessarily, though having clinical experience will certainly give you an advantage especially if you’re in a sales and/or an educational role when interacting with fellow practitioners. However, as long as you’re solid with your foundational knowledge of areas such as Nutrition and Herbal Medicine and that you’ve kept up to date with the latest literature in these areas through relevant professional journals and attendance of professional education events, you will have sufficient grounding.

We have various healthcare professionals working within our support teams ranging from Naturopaths through to Nutritionists and Dietitians, as well as Pharmacists.

Integria has operations based in Brisbane, Warwick manufacturing facility (Qld), Sydney, Perth, New Zealand and Singapore. In addition to this, sales team members are based in various locations around the country. Please keep in touch via our careers page.

Integria take on Naturopaths and other natural healthcare practitioners for various roles as employees throughout the business. We don’t currently take on work experience but we support Naturopaths with products for their research when they enroll in higher education. You can view our available roles at our careers page.

It sounds like you have a great range of complementary skills and interests. We suggest keeping in touch by completing the Expression of Interest option on our careers page.

It may depend on the role. As an example, Victor is our Territory Development and Education Manager and works alongside a team of reliable sales professionals. Sales professionals in the natural medicine retail space need to be passionate about natural healthcare however they don't have to be qualified naturopaths like Victor. Victor's qualifications and expertise in this field allow him to offer educational training and support to non-qualified team members so that they can gain both general understanding and confidence of the products that they’re promoting to their retail accounts.

It sure does. Not only do you receive constant enquiries about products from retailers, but at times you get asked for recommendations for certain conditions along with specific technical information such as, “How does this herb work?”, or, “Will it affect the medication that I’m taking?”, or “Can my 8 year old child or my 78 year old grandparent take this product?”. Your background knowledge will help you to field such enquiries on the go.

Confidence and compassion. Confidence encompasses the notion that you know your products inside and out, from the individual components such as nutrients and herbs, through to the actions and indications of those individual components and the formulation in general. If retail customers can see that you can confidently describe the product that you’re promoting and that you can reliably answer queries or questions relating to such products, the more comfortable they will feel in either purchasing the products as well as recommending the products to others.

A love of natural medicine, a strong passion for learning and discovery, and attention to detail are all important factors in being happy and successful in Innovation and Product Development. Our work is strongly based in both traditional use and scientific validation of the use of natural medicine ingredients. You also need to be passionate about understanding the “how and why” of human physiology in both health and disease. On top of this, skills in project management and attention to detail come into play to move projects through the design and development stages.