Part-Time Retail Sales Representative for General Mills/Blue Buffalo - Vancouver

Encore Market Engagement; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 29,000 - 36,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage reimbursement

Job summary

Encore Market Engagement in Vancouver, BC, seeks a dynamic Part-Time Retail Sales Representative to cover approximately 26 hours per week. The role is field-based and requires travel to retail accounts.

You will work independently, representing three major CPG clients with a focus on promotions and stock availability. You will build relationships, execute in-store strategies, and push distribution while ensuring correct shelf tags and planograms.

Qualifications

• Ideally 1–3 years of territory sales and merchandising experience in CPG.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent relationship-building abilities.
• Strong selling skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to influence and lead change with a growth mindset.
• Proactive problem-solving and self-management in a fast-paced setting.

Responsibilities

• Represent all clients professionally, delivering excellent service to retail customers.
• Set territory goals with a manager and develop strategies to meet targets.
• Develop customer relationships and introduce new products/promotions.
• Solicit orders, ensure shelf tags and planograms are correct, and verify stock.
• Coordinate displays, secure space, and maximize in-store visibility and profitability.
• Use sales tools to identify opportunities and drive distribution improvements.
• Provide market feedback on retail conditions and trends.
• Handle additional duties as required.

Skills

Territory sales

Merchandising

CPG knowledge

Communication skills

Relationship building

Presentations

Problem solving

Self-management

Job description

The Role: Part-Time Retail Sales Representative - Vancouver, BC - Approx. 26 hours/week

Rate: $22.00+ Mileage Reimbursement

Team: Supporting 3 Tier 1 CPG manufacturers: Blue Buffalo, Yoplait Liberté and General Mills Canada

The Perfect Person for The Role:

You are a dynamic, motivated, self-starter with a passion for winning.

You have top-notch communication, relationship-building and planning & organizational skills. You love being on the road, working independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment, you won’t be sitting at a desk in this role! You aren’t afraid of technology and use it in your daily life. You take a consultative, insight-based approach to selling, effectively balancing your customers’ and our clients’ interests to drive mutually beneficial outcomes.Your role is to identify business development opportunities to drive sales within an assigned geographical territory.

A bit about the clients:

General Mills, whose brands - such as Cheerios, Nature Valley, Pillsbury and Old El Paso are enjoyed in more than 100 countries on six continents. Blue Buffalo Pet Foods is also a part of the General Mills family. They are a healthy pet food with a core belief: "Love them like family. Feed them like family." Yoplait Liberté Canada Co., whose brands, Liberté, Yoplait and YOP make delicious dairy products bringing families across Canada together with their Canadian made products

What You’ll Be Doing Every Day:

• Represent all 3 clients in a professional manner by providing retail customers with the best service
• Work with your Manager to setterritory goals based on company objectives and develop strategies to meet and/or establishedtarget by:
  • Developing customer relations to become a trusted advisor
  • Introducing new products and promotional events into the market
  • Leveraging selling skills to solicit orders for account Bookings and Allocation
  • Closing distribution gaps by confirming correct shelf tags are present in compliance with account listing & store planograms
  • Ensuring supply availability through merchandising product and checking order / inventory status
  • Negotiating space for and building Gold Standard displays to maximize points of interruption as well as confirming and correcting previously agreed display implementations
  • Using sales tools provided to identify opportunities & gaps anddetermine action plan to drive sales, improve distribution, recognize underperforming categories, and increase overall profitability in your territory
  • Recognizing and utilizing regional sales trends in order to maximize in-store performance
  • Providing feedback and insight on retail conditions and/or issues as they are encountered
  • Other duties as required

Your Experience:

• Ideally 1-3 years of territory sales and merchandising experience in CPG
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Amazing relationship building skills
• Strong selling skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to influence/lead change
• Positive attitude and a growth mindset
• Excellent problem-solving skills are essential
• Careful strategic planning and ability to self-support with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment

A few other things we’ll expect from you:

• The ability to lift and move up to 25 pounds
• Full access to a reliable vehicle
• High-speed internet with WiFi at home
• The ability to store some supplies at home and transport them in your vehicle
• Some overnight travel may be required in remote areas

Le BON Fit with Encore:

At Encore, we feel that no matter your background, what’s most important to your success and ours is the way you interact with others. Don’t get us wrong, if you have the right experience and skills, that’s great. So, if you’re thinking about working with Encore, it’s important that you know what we’ll expect from you:

• You believe in winning
• You bring passion and innovative thinking that will deliver results
• You believe that the words ‘work’ and ‘fun’ belong in the same sentence