Retail Sales Representative

Job description

Retail Sales Representative Full -Time

Our company has the perfect opportunity for a candidate that looks forward to representing top brands. Our full-time Retail Sales Representative job is a fantastic opportunity for an individual who can collaborate with store management to increase sales that meet the client’s expectations. You will be selling in major retail locations, representing brand name products such as chocolate, candy/confections, sports drinks, soda products, and snacks. This is a great opportunity to work with the largest sales and marketing agency in North America.

Responsibilities:

• Develop key relationships with store and market managers.
• Delivers regular visibility and client contact to ensure proper product placement.
• Success is securing front end and main aisles presence of client products.
• You own analyzing business needs to identify grow opportunities.
• Develop sales plans to close sales gaps and deliver results.

Qualifications: (Required)High School Diploma or GED or equivalent experience.

• (Preferred)bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Previous retail sales experience preferred.
• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to handle a fast-paced work environment.
• Excellent written communication and verbal communication skills.
• Strong computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and web-browsers.

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.

Position Summary

The Retail Sales Representative (RSR) is responsible for developing and growing sales volume in their assigned territory through effective fact-based selling and relationship building with retail account’s operations personnel at store and market (district) level.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

Consultative Selling

• Developing and leveraging relationships with key influence and decision makers in assigned stores and markets
• Delivering consistent market level contact as per client standards
• Effectively gaining front end and main aisle presence of client brands. This is accomplished in conjunction and alignment with store or market personnel so that the primary merchandising and stocking duties are done by store personnel. This collaborative relationship is developed on a mutual interest and business relationship.

Achieving Results Meeting or exceeding POS to plan goals for assigned stores and markets

• Delivering a positive gap versus non-DRT
• Growing POS for client brands by selling incremental display locations, selling the execution of plan-o-gram locations, executing initiatives as well as maintaining in stock conditions.
• Analyze and develop business plans each trimester that identifies opportunities to grow sales within their territory. This business plan would include a review of the previous trimester, analysis of upcoming POS to plan goals, opportunities to close gaps, an action plan with specific territory goals and timetable.

Organizing and Planning Follow team sales call standards and effectively orchestrate a call coverage plan that meets the business needs of client and the retail customer.

• Administration/Reporting- complete accurate and timely paperwork, reports, recaps, itineraries, timesheets, expense reports, etc.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Direct Reports- This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports

Indirect Reports

This position does not have guidance or mentoring responsibilities for indirect reports

Travel and/or Driving Requirements

• Travel is not an essential duty and function of this job. Driving is an essential duty or function of this job.

Minimum Qualifications

Education Level:

• (Required)High School Diploma or GED or equivalent experience
• (Preferred)bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Field of Study/Area of Experience: Previous retail sales experience preferred

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

• Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to handle a fast-paced work environment
• Excellent written communication and verbal communication skills
• Strong computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and web-browsers

Environmental & Physical Requirements: Field / Administrative Requirements

Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work may be performed in an office, field, retail store, or warehouse environment. Typically requires the ability to spend 66% hours each workday doing the following activities: engage in considerable physical activity, ability to lift and/or push up to 50 pounds, stand on feet for long periods of time. Also required to travel and drive.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• Merchandising: 1 year (Preferred)
• retail: 1 year (Preferred)
• Retailing: 1 year (Preferred)

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Multiple locations

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 - $19.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $18.00 - $19.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Shift:

• Day shift
• Morning shift

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18 - $19