Merchandiser, Retail

Job Details:

Job Location:

Gallup Coca-Cola - Gallup, NM 87301. Salary Range: $19.70. Travel Percentage:
Road Warrior. Individuals living in Gallup, NM preferred, but not required.

As a Merchandiser, you represent the Coca-Cola of Durango brand in local grocery stores. Your responsibilities include stocking shelves, product rotation, ensuring customer satisfaction, maintaining product displays, and contributing to our brand's success. This role offers insights into the beverage industry and opportunities for career growth within our Company, directly impacting sales and brand recognition.

• Good communication and people skills are essential, as is the ability to lead by example and maintain a proactive, solution‑focused mindset.
• Demonstrate teamwork and support within the Sales Team.
• Actively listen to customer and fellow employees’ needs, concerns responding with thoughtful, respectful solutions.
• Work to resolve conflicts and/or misunderstandings with diplomacy and emotional intelligence.
• Represent the company’s values and culture through every interaction using clear, consistent communication and documentation.

• Merchandise Coca-Cola products in assigned accounts by stocking and rotating our beverages including shelving, displays, racks, and coolers.
• Build or take down displays as needed.
• Condense all back stock prior to leaving an account.
• Communicate with the sales team daily regarding low or out of stock items, product rotation, display activity, back stock, and missing point of sale.
• Provide relief sales of assigned accounts as needed.
• Follow Company safety guidelines and always comply with safe working procedures.
• Maintain auto insurance, mileage reporting, and servicing of vehicle per the Company Vehicle Use Policy, whether operating a Company provided vehicle or a personally owned vehicle.

• High school diploma/GED.
• Valid driver’s license (no major traffic violations and no more than 2 minor violations in the last 3 years).
• Ability to pass physical exam and obtain certification.
• Ability to follow directions.
• Team‑player attitude.
• Ability to perform essential functions of position with little or no supervision.
• Regular, punctual, and consistent attendance is an essential job function.
• Excellent customer service communication skills to interact with customers.
• Must maintain professional appearance with customers which upholds Durango Coca-Cola’s brand image.
• The role will travel to various customer sites; extensive regional day travel is required.
• Will work in a variety of weather environments (e.g., sun, rain, sleet, snow, excessive cold & heat).
• Requires constant standing, walking, lifting, pushing, and pulling; may lift and/or move items up to 65 pounds.
• Must be able to lift weight above shoulders and below waist; push and pull a manual pallet jack with a pallet of product on level and sloped surfaces (up to 2,600 lbs).
• Must be able to push and pull beverage carts weighing up to 1,000 lbs on level and sloped surfaces.
• Will occasionally or frequently twist, grasp, reach, bend, kneel, sit, stoop, crouch, and crawl.
• Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work hours:
  
  5:00am – 7:00am start until routes are complete, Monday through Friday. Start times may vary slightly according to route assignment.
• Additional or alternative days/times may occasionally be needed, depending on customer and/or promotional campaigns, including holidays.

Durango Coca-Cola Bottling Company offers a drug‑free workplace. Employees are subject to pre‑employment/post‑offer, post‑accident, and random drug testing.

AA/EOE.