Demo & Merchandising Specialist - Seattle

Who We Are

Chomps is America's fastest-growing meat snack brand, redefining convenient snacking with a commitment to real ingredients and bold, satisfying flavors. Crafted from 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef and venison, along with antibiotic-free turkey and chicken, each Chomps meat stick delivers 10+ grams of high-quality protein without sugar, hormones, soy, dairy, artificial preservatives, artificial nitrates, or MSG. Seasoned with a blend of flavorful herbs and spices, Chomps provides a nutritious protein snack for the whole family.

As a minority-owned, family-operated, and B Corporation-certified business, Chomps prioritizes thoughtful sourcing and recently earned the non-ultra-processed food certification through the non-GMO project. Discover a new standard in snacking at

Traits of a Chompian

If you've been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You're a team player who's self-motivated and action-oriented. You're committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You're a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you'll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience.

You're hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.

This job post is for the following location:

Seattle - Preferred locations:
Greater Seattle:
Downtown, North End, South End and Eastside:
Bellevue, Kirkland and Redmond

Once hired, you will be employed through our third party partners Work Well Workforce solutions. This role is not direct employment with Chomps.

Title:

Retail Specialist

Hourly Pay: $25-$35 depending on experience

Full time: 40 hours a week

What You Will Do

The Retail Specialist is our Chompian in stores sharing the product benefits, premium attributes and uses of Chomps. The Retail Specialist supports our Business Analytics function and Account Owners in conducting in store demonstrations and store visits in their region while functioning as the conduit between the brand, product and consumer at point of purchase.

Responsibilities

* Conduct store visits in Grocery and Natural channel retailers per direction of Sales and Business Analytics Teams (About 40% of workload).

* New item acceptance (close voids) in Key Accounts to include, but not limited to:
Whole Foods, Sprouts, PCC, Met Market and Fred Meyer

* Merchandising:
Pack out product from back of house and drive new orders.

* Shelf tag management/promotional compliance.

* Secondary Displays and selling in shipper program.

* Product education.

* Execute demos in store (50% + of workload):
Must build baseline understanding of Chomps message points to clearly communicate food credentials, product benefits, premium attributes and uses to consumers at point of purchase.

* Must be able to establish a quick rapport with a wide variety of shoppers and store personnel while building relationships at store level.

* Demonstrate a sales acumen yielding strong demonstration performance by meeting our exceeding sales goals.

* All activity (Demos/Store Visits) will be processed through retail CRM platform (Repsly).

* Must be prepared to engage in physical activity including ability to stand on feet for entire length of demonstration (up to 8 hours) and lift products up to 40lbs.

* Prepared to travel locally approximately 90% of the time.

* Accepts responsibility for the organization goals by taking ownership of new and different duties and identifying new opportunities at retail.

Who You Are

* Self-motivated and solutions oriented.

* Collaborative mindset with strength in effectively receiving and communicating feedback.

* Proactive, clear and direct communicator.

* Bachelor's Degree preferred.

* Prior promotional and demonstrating experience a plus.

* Has a passion for great natural product brands!

* Results oriented and process driven, with high expectations of self and team.

* Valid driver's license and access to a reliable vehicle…