Territory Field Sales Merchandiser – Grocery Retail

The Wonderful Company; United States; On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Gas card

Wellness benefits

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

The Wonderful Company is hiring a Field Sales Merchandiser to strengthen grocery retail relationships across the Vermont/New Hampshire area, optimizing in-store displays and brand presence for Wonderful Pistachios, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water and Halos.

This full-time role includes a company car with gas card, a Monday–Friday start around 7am, generous benefits, and opportunities to partner with store managers to drive category growth within a 100+ mile territory.

Qualifications

• Proven retail sales success promoting grocery store products with the ability to form partnerships with store and produce managers, preferably within food and beverage.
• Capability to provide compelling rationales to store management staff to display and purchase against the competition.
• Prior experience and understanding of managing a large store territory and daily drive time.
• Possess excellent selling, negotiation, and partnership-building skills.
• Remain detail-oriented, goal-minded, problem-solving while working independently.
• Enjoy working with people and being able to apply effective interpersonal and time management skills to get your work done.
• Proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain 60+ grocery retail relationships within an assigned 100+ mile range territory
• Determine the best location within each store for sales of all Wonderful brand products by building and moving displays
• Rotate and stock all company authorized products on each grocery store call
• Maintain schematic integrity while re-merchandising projects including grand openings and remodels as requested by the retailer
• Develop and maintain relationships with retailer personnel and supervisors to facilitate account penetration
• Sell, up-sell, and maintain retail distribution of all headquarter-authorized products for all stores in assigned territory
• Accurately record all data-gathering objectives as instructed through use of company hand-held devices
• Execute, maintain, and monitor all company-driven marketing initiatives and programs, including maintenance of POS and coupon/tie-in programs
• Provide chain-specific information and communication on a daily

Skills

Retail sales

Relationship building

Time management

Negotiation

MS Outlook/Excel

Tools

MS Outlook

Excel

Word

Job description

The Wonderful Company is hiring a Field Sales Merchandiser to strengthen grocery retail relationships across the Vermont/New Hampshire area, optimizing in-store displays and brand presence for Wonderful Pistachios, POM Wonderful, FIJI Water and Halos.

This full-time role includes a company car with gas card, a Monday–Friday start around 7am, generous benefits, and opportunities to partner with store managers to drive category growth within a 100+ mile territory.