Grocery Merchandiser - Lafayette, LA

C.A. Fortune • Lafayette, LA

8h • Onsite

About The Position

The Grocery Merchandiser manages an assigned territory by completing store visits, audits, surveys, and other tasks. The role involves selling and merchandising products, gaining and maintaining product distribution, ensuring products are stocked and accurately represented on shelves, and ordering products when stock is low or unavailable. The position requires using mobile apps to complete reports, upload photos, finish tasks, and communicate with store teams. Work includes switching among stocking, reporting, and communication tasks, traveling between grocery stores, and working independently with minimal supervision.

This is a part-time position of 10–12 hours per week in Lafayette, Louisiana, within a 40–60 mile radius. Compensation is $20 per hour, based on experience, qualifications, and skills. The role requires repeated standing, walking, bending, squatting, and lifting or carrying up to 50 pounds, as well as maintaining a safe working environment and following store guidelines, dress code, and attendance expectations. The merchandiser may also attend client kickoff video calls and team check-ins as required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Reliable transportation.
• Valid driver license.
• Proof of automobile insurance.
• Reliable phone, no more than five years old, with phone and internet service for daily communication.
• Ability to drive to stores in the assigned territory to complete retail tasks and audits.
• Strong communication skills and ability to follow directions independently.
• Ability to repeatedly stand, walk, bend, squat, and lift or carry up to 50 pounds.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced retail environment with minimal supervision.

Nice To Haves

• Previous retail, sales, or merchandising experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage an assigned territory by completing store visits, surveys, audits, and tasks.
• Gain and maintain product distribution by building relationships with store teams.
• Sell and merchandise products across a variety of accounts.
• Ensure client products are well stocked and order products when they are out of stock or running low.
• Work products from new orders onto store shelves.
• Use mobile apps to complete reports, upload photos, finish tasks, and communicate.
• Verify that client products are accurately represented on store shelves.
• Travel between store locations within the assigned territory.
• Maintain a safe working environment in stores and comply with store team guidelines.
• Maintain a professional appearance and follow dress code and attendance guidelines.
• Attend client kickoff video calls and team check-ins as required.

Benefits

• Paid drive time at $0.70 per mile.
• Monthly phone stipend.
• Steady and consistent scheduled working hours with available route flexibility.
• PTO and sick days.
• One paid volunteer day per year.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Weekly pay.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: High school or GED