Sales Merchandiser

Job Details

Job Location:

Bangor, ME 04401

Summary

Sells and merchandises beer, wine, and soda as needed on assigned sales route.

• Develops and maintains good working relationships with purchasing contacts.
• Travels through assigned territory to call on regular and prospective customers to solicit orders or talks with customers on a daily basis.
• Displays product, using appropriate point of sale, and emphasizes salable features.
• Rotates products to ensure sales of all beverages are on a "first in first out basis".
• Works shelf to be sure labels are facing forward to make for best presentation of products.
• Able to decipher and rotate each package's code.
• Knows date of delivery to customer, based on knowledge of own firm's delivery schedules.
• Confers with Sales Merchandiser's Supervisor to resolve customer problems and communicate market activity.
• Maintains good work relationship with the Merchandiser assigned to his/her route. (Where applicable in each route.)
• Investigates and resolves customer problems with deliveries.
• Attends Sales Merchandiser meetings as needed.

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

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.

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and preferrably one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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

Ability to use simple math addition and subtraction up to three digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of different pallet quantities and layers of pallets.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with customer's objections and overcome those objections without negative reactions.

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of ability to understand current inventory levels in the provided devise and in Mobility software. Individual should possess a smart phone and have service and email available at all times during the day.

Current Driver's License (minimum Class

C) in good standing with the state of Maine. Company will provide a Sales License through the State of Maine as long as individual can pass criteria to obtain the license.

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 talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 30 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision and ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; outside weather conditions and extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.