SAS Merchandiser Retail Team Lead Part Time

Advantage Sales & Marketing dba Advantage Solutions•Wilmington, NC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

SAS Retail Services provides national retail merchandising services to a host of fortune 500 CPG companies, distributors, and wholesalers, within the grocery, mass, home/hardware, and drug channels. We are looking for a Lead Merchandiser who will lead associates in the merchandising process, ensuring compliance to standards and goals, and keeping the team on task. They will be responsible for plans and changes to schedules are adhered to while exceeding client expectations and business needs. They will be responsible for executing projects while making decisions to release, cancel or defer work based on inventory, demand, capacity, and material availability. The Lead Merchandiser is the direct communication link in merchandising process, and will need to be able to facilitate communication with their team, supervisor and the retailer. Our people are what make SAS Retail Services a great place to work. All of us work hard to win for the customer – some of the nation’s largest retailers — and that’s what makes it fun, the drive to do whatever it takes to get the job done. APPLY TODAY! Responsibilities The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today. Merchandiser Reset Team Lead Merchandiser Reset Team Lead is responsible for merchandising; resetting the company manufacturer’s products at retail accounts to ensure customer and clients expectations are met.

Requirements

High School diploma required.
1 or 2 years of merchandising experience required.
Previous retail experience
Strong self-management skills
Ability to complete daily procedures and responsibilities without direct supervision.
Must demonstrate good judgment and show respect for others.
Focused on the general reset of Consumer Package Goods (CPG) at various locations where CPG goods are sold, such as grocery and convenience stores.
These positions may be part-time or full-time.
Responsible for merchandising products at retail accounts within an assigned territory.

Nice To Haves

some supervisory experience
previous work in retail or grocery environment
Ability to use POS equipment and GAMS payroll system.
Leadership and training skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Provide excellent customer services, including assessing the needs of the customer to best recommend products.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Self-motivated, able to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a timely manner.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of associates to implement merchandising work, ensuring compliance to the process and exceeds service expectation.
Plan and adjust to reflect changes to schedules, ensure changes are adhered to for the duration of assignment.
Ensure materials are available for display.
Communicate with your team, supervisor and retailer to resolve issues and ensure smooth execution of the assignment.
Execute special projects, makes decision to release, firm cancel or defer work based on current inventory, demand, capacity and material availability.
Performs and is directly responsible for; merchandising, resets, reporting, schematic integrity, POS, equipment needs the following processes, and training.
Be able to implement customer approved schematics/plan-o-grams/MODs with all items tagged and approved by store management.
Must be able to take direction regarding tagging, rotating, and placing products on shelf.
must have the ability to communicate effectively both internally to company management and externally with Customers.
will complete (web based) accurate and timely reporting, recaps, timesheets, expense reports, etc.