Job Description

COMPANY ROLE:

An essential retail sales position that interacts with store management and is primarily responsible for ensuring our assigned products are achieving authorized distribution, proper shelf location, proper facings, and that all shelf tags are legible and scannable.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· To treat all associates, customers, and suppliers with respect and appreciation.

· To treat your word as your vow by always doing what you say you will do when you say you will do it.

· To always represent OSMG (aka On Shelf Marketing Group) in an ethical and professional manner.

· Call on all the stores in assigned territory within the established call frequency

· Sell and service all principal accounts represented by company

· Rotate product as required by manufacturers.

· Aggressively sell displays of manufacturer-client brands while working within the guidelines of customer

regulations and manufacturer-client display objectives

· Obtain and maintain 100% distribution of all manufacturer-client products approved by the retail customer

· Conduct regular checks of store reorder line number tags to ensure continued distribution and reordering

· Carry out all previously planned promotion and programs to a successful conclusion

· Supply point-of-sale material to store(s) as required by the manufacturer-client and approved by the retailer

· Apply manufacturer’s cents-off coupons and special offers to products as required by the manufacturer and

approved by the customer

· Ensure that all retail objectives and shelf standards are met and maintained in assigned territory

· Keep sections set to the customer’s schematic or stocking plan as is required or beneficial to manufacturer-clients

· Establish an efficient territory itinerary and then follow this approved coverage plan

· Maintain competitive awareness and promptly report all information through proper channels

· Set up authorized racks and set to company schematics

· Assist with continual training in company standards to include proper labeling and proper placement

· Train employees in product procedures

· Assist in grand and re-grand openings

· Assist with seasonal production

· Work out of town occasionally as needed

· Work occasional weekends

  SKILLS REQUIRED:

· The ability to make everyone feel respected and appreciated.

· Ability to prioritize, plan and organize work.

· Ability and authorization to drive retail routes.

· Ability to lift and rotate products.

· Grocery retail experience

· Policies and procedures that affect our services (i.e., customer check-in procedures, ordering of tags, etc.).

· Understand the products we represent and how to read product dating.

CHARACTERISTICS REQUIRED:

· Loyal

· Honest

· Personable

· Morally Sound

· Enthusiastic

· Persistent

· Well Organized and Administratively Thorough

· Resourceful

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

High school diploma or equivalent and past successful sales experience or related job experience.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Standing, lifting, and bending are a standard part of this job. A person must be in optimum physical condition to meet the needs of this position.

STANDING This is a demanding position that may require a person to be on his/her feet eight to ten hours per day. It is necessary to walk each store, aisle by aisle, to properly access store conditions. Duties may require locating our product in the back room. At times, it is necessary to climb over and around pallets to accomplish this. Once the merchandise is located, it may then need to be carried out to the selling floor. Once the merchandise is located, it may then need to be carried out to the selling floor.

LIFTING This involves lifting and moving items. An average item weight would be approximately 35 pounds, however, some can go as high as 50 pounds, such as a bale of sugar.

BENDING While not only bending to ground level, bending involves lifting and moving products. In some instances, the reach size can be up to five feet. Duties may require three to five hours of working in a stooped position and reaching up to five feet, while moving product.

Duties require a person to be in outside facilities, including but not limited to customer warehouses, kitchens, and manufacturer-client facilities, all of which require more safety precautions than a normal office environment. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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