Sales Rep - Relief Large Grocery/Mass Merch

PepsiCo•Brainerd, MN

15h•Onsite

About The Position

This position serves as the primary store-level sales person for large accounts such as supermarkets. Responsibilities include providing service to and growing business within assigned accounts, ordering products for delivery, and generating sales through direct customer interaction. The role involves rotating and stocking products on shelves, displays, coolers, and in vending equipment and backrooms. The Sales Rep will also build displays and set up promotional materials like pricing signs and banners, and will have frequent interaction with store management. This is a physically demanding role, requiring repeated lifting, loading, pushing, and pulling of cases weighing 20-45 pounds over 10-12 hour work periods, as well as bending, reaching, and squatting while merchandising and moving product. Weekend and/or holiday work may be required.

Requirements

18 years or older
Must have car or personal transportation to access multi-store locations within assigned shift
Valid U.S. driver's license and proof of insurance

Nice To Haves

Experience with consumer products (e.g., multiple products, packages, product sizes, etc.)
Experience in the beverage industry (e.g., segments, types of customers, competitors, trends, etc.)
Experience with power equipment (e.g., lift jacks, power jacks, u-boats, pallet jacks, etc.)
Experience with hand held computers (e.g., mobile technology, etc.)
Experience with managing inventory (e.g., current stock, projected sales, ordering/re-stocking, etc.)
Experience with business-to-business selling (e.g., making sales calls, building relationships with customers, handling customer complaints, etc.)
Experience with merchandising (e.g., standards, plannagrams, product displays, stocking/rotating product, back-room organization, etc.)
Experience managing incorrect orders (e.g., solving for the wrong order, managing out of stock product, etc.)
Experience performing financial and mathematical calculations (e.g., calculating profit margins, determining display size, etc.)
Experience with managing a route (e.g., prioritizing stops, setting a schedule, servicing accounts, managing delivery windows, etc.)
Experience with incremental selling (e.g., selling above the standard order, suggesting additional product, up selling/suggestive selling, etc.)
Experience following safety procedures (e.g., proper lifting techniques, following safety processes, etc.)

Responsibilities

Grow sales volume, market share, product distribution, space allocation, and customer service in all assigned accounts
Sell product inventory to standard
Take inventory and place orders for future delivery
Solicit new business to increase volume and new package distribution within the area boundaries
Sell and execute promotions, solicit placement of equipment and sell sufficient product inventory
Utilize point-of-purchase materials to stimulate sales
Generate selling opportunities by maintaining and increasing shelf facings, cleaning shelves, and rotating products
Provide excellent service to assigned accounts and create and maintain goodwill with all customers (e.g., communication, rapport building, attentiveness to customer needs, etc.)
Merchandise product sections and build displays to stimulate sales
Complete paperwork in an accurate, legible, and timely manner
Position requires additional duties as assigned by manager to potentially include, but not limited to, warehouse support, etc.
Regular, reliable, predictable attendance