Sales Merchandiser

MERCHANDISER  JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Summary:

As a Merchandiser, your basic job standard is to assist the sales team to which you have been assigned through delivery of product, merchandising that product, filling in at job positions where required or requested, as well as the marketing and proper representation of those Anheuser-Busch products distributed by Mitchell Distributing Co.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Learn the accounts on all assigned routes in the work group and the sequence in which they are to be worked.
2. Become familiar with the brands, both package and draft, carried by each account.
3. Learn how the route book is used to determine the basic stock requirements carried by each account. NEVER leave the warehouse to fill in on a route without the proper route book.
4. Learn where display areas are located in each account.
5. Attend company, seminar, and team meetings each week when requested.
6. Assist Route Assistants and Salesman in the following areas at all times --- product rotation, product delivery (rolling product in accounts), and display building, cleaning and maintaining all permanent P.O.S.
7. Always ask questions if you do not know the answer to any problem before taking action.
8. Always bring any problems to your Team Leader.
9. Run required routes to fill in for team-sells conducted each month.

Fill-In Responsibilities:

1. Follow the instructions of the Salesperson and Team Leader of your team.
2. Make sure you have the correct packages and brands on your delivery vehicle before leaving the warehouse.
3. Never leave the warehouse with any product or other merchandise before being checked out by the Warehouse Manager.
4. If there are any questions concerning an order, ask the appropriate personnel for direction before leaving the warehouse.
5. Always double check your sales tickets to minimize the number of possible errors.
6. Observe all the proper rotation regulations when stocking any retail account.
7. Deposit all monies daily.  Do not short deposit for spending money.
8. Perform the requested D.O.T. inspections daily.

Other Responsibilities:

1. Pull up specified accounts assigned by your Team Leader every other weekend following the prescribed schedule for such pull up.
2. Complete any duties assigned you by any manager or your salesman. Communicate all request with your team leader.
3. Daily, assist in loading trucks for your work group in the morning to help all of the delivery personnel arrive at his or her first account on a timely basis.
4. When required, leave with a specified route to perform those responsibilities of a Route Assistant when assigned to do so by your Team Leader.
5. When performing those responsibilities of a Driver Salesman or a Route Assistant, assist in unloading that truck upon returning to the warehouse that evening.
6. Assist with special events as requested.
7. Install point of sales items as requested by your Team Leader.
8. When loading any delivery vehicle, use extreme caution to prevent damage or injury.  Report any injury or damage immediately.
9. Clean P.O.S. rooms and other work areas after each use.
10. Report damage to any equipment or product immediately.
11. Read the company handbook and policy manual.  Compliance with all guidelines are required for continued employment.
12. Document and place all P.O.S. in the assigned areas that are delivered daily into the drive thru. Take the bill of lading directly to the warehouse manager.
13. All company property and money are to be safeguarded as if it was your personal property.  Any company property that is damaged or money that is short will be your responsibility to pay back to the company.  When filling in for a driver on a route, you are in charge of all monies and property.