Responsibilities Include:
The goal for the Corporate Merchandiser is to prepare and reconfigure merchandise displays in stores so that it is both available for customers to purchase and for the Route Salespeople to service. The individual in this position will be responsible for interpreting planograms, arranging and rearranging merchandise displays in accordance with established planograms and providing support to the Route Salespeople. The individual in this position will be responsible for working in all of Imperial's customers and be willing to travel away from home for a minimum of 1 week up to 3 weeks at a time returning on weekends.
The successful candidate will be responsible for performing all of the duties successfully, to include:

• Represent Imperial in a professional manner
• Capable of working on your own
• Travel / Hotel stays away from home up to 3 consecutive weeks returning on weekends
• Ability to work in all of Imperial's customers
• Perform reset work in Remodeled stores
• Read and implement planograms
• Executing resets in accordance with specific account reset standards and completion of reset completion reports where applicable.
• Set-up and Sign displays in accordance with planograms for seasonal and promotional product
• Ensure proper pricing of product (if applicable)
• Load product on display
• Provide merchandising/ service support, including pack-out and maintenance of in-line departments, set-up of promotional and sales displays, and introduction and cut-in of new items.
• Assure customer satisfaction with Imperial
• Other duties as needed

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Basic computer skills - requiring the use of a tablet to for clocking in and out and to fill out requiring able to use a log in and password and follow simple instructions.

Experience

• Previous supermarket and/or retail route sales and/or service experience a plus.
• Telxon/Cipher experience helpful.
• Knowledge of product and/or experience with ordering and merchandising HBC and GM preferred.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and write short correspondence, emails and memos.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Other duties as assigned.
• Keep work area clean.

Physical/Mental Requirements
Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee must regularly handle items weighing up to 20 pounds lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee is exposed to hot/cold weather depending upon the season.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.