Small Format Sales Representative
About The Position
This position is a sales position, focusing on smaller accounts such as convenience and gas stores, small grocery stores, drug stores, restaurants, etc. Generate sales by selling to up to 100 accounts and servicing each location periodically, having frequent interaction with store managers. Responsible for ordering products to be delivered to the store. Rotate and stock products on shelves and displays, in coolers, vending equipment, and customers' backrooms. Build displays and set up promotional materials such as pricing signs and banners. This is a labor-intensive position requiring lifting/carrying cases weighing from 25 - 45 pounds repeatedly over 10–12-hour period and working across a wide variety of weather conditions. Also requires standing, walking, reaching, and squatting while merchandising product.
Requirements
- 18 years or older with clean driving record
- Valid driver's license
- Pass pre-employment physical
Nice To Haves
- Experience with merchandising (e.g., standards, planograms, product displays, stocking/rotating product, back-room organization, etc.).
- Experience with consumer products (e.g., multiple packages, product sizes, etc.).
- Experience selling beverages and/or consumer products (e.g., making sales calls, filling orders, handling customer problems, etc.).
- Experience with financials (e.g., profit margins, gross profit dollars, etc.).
- Experience performing physical work (e.g., lifting heavy products, walking, bending, etc).
- Experience with serving as a team lead (e.g., communicating, surfacing issues, solving problems, etc.).
- Experience with handheld computers (e.g., mobile technology, etc.).
- Experience with assembling and servicing merchandising equipment (e.g., cold barrels, cooler glides, cleaning parts, etc.).
- Experience with in-store marketing (e.g., POP placement, building creative displays, etc.).
- Experience with paperwork/documentation (e.g., organizing, filing, submitting, etc.).
- Experience with contracts (e.g., setting up new accounts, filing credit applications, etc.).
- Experience with managing a route (e.g., prioritizing stops, setting a schedule, servicing accounts, managing delivery windows, etc.).
- Experience with financial targets (e.g., achieving volume/sales/revenue targets, being held responsible for product breakage, etc.).
- Experience in a retail environment
Responsibilities
- Identify customer sales opportunities and sell and execute promotions, place equipment, and sell sufficient product to address the opportunities
- 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 required paperwork in an accurate, legible, and timely manner
- Communicate customer issues to manager in charge
- Regular, reliable, predictable attendance
Benefits
- health and dental coverage
- employer-paid life, AD&D, and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- profit sharing
- Paid time off includes holidays, personal days, sick days, and vacation time.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
