Retail Sales Specialist - Hyattsville, United States - Advantage Solutions

Advantage Solutions
Advantage Solutions
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Hyattsville, United States

3 weeks ago

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Full Time Retail Sales Specialist


What We Offer:

  • Full Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life).
  • 401(K) with company match.
  • Generous Paid Time Off.
  • Paid training and ongoing career development.
  • Mileage reimbursement.

What You'll Do:

  • Flex your organizational skills to build relationships with store personnel, create impactful action plans, and support a positive brand image.
  • Ensure sales are flawlessly executed on time and against client's growth initiatives.
  • Meet and exceed sales goals by increasing instore visibility of client products and promotions.
  • Ensure products are always available by maintaining merchandising and display standards.
  • Implement innovative marketing strategies that drive product positioning and awareness.

Qualifications:

  • High school diploma, GED, or 12 years of retail sales or merchandising experience.
  • Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills as this position requires daily discussions with customers at all personnel levels.
  • Demonstrated ability to multitask, elevated sense of urgency, and attention to detail.
  • Adaptability to changing demands and client goals.
  • Strength working independently, but also as a member of the larger company team.

Responsibilities:


The Company is one of North America's leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods.

The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers.

We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Position Summary


The Retail Sales Specialist (RSS) is responsible for servicing and selling to retail accounts within an assigned territory to ensure Client standards are met and volume is increased.

Essential Job


Responsibilities:

Sales and Merchandising

  • Maintain Client objectives by ensuring secondary placements of product(s) are fully stocked, correctly signed, properly faced, and set to schematics
  • Shelf Standards and Conditions: authorization of items to meet Client shelf schematic standards
  • Meet Client and Company objectives by maintaining full distribution on existing SKUs.
  • Take direction regarding tagging, rotating, and placing POS materials for products on shelf
  • Prepare for and respond to audits
  • Manage time and prioritize for store call coverage
  • Complete accurate and timely paperwork and reports, recaps, itineraries, timesheets, expense reports, etc.
  • May provide feedback for Client audit objectives
Customer Relations

  • Communicate effectively both internally with management and externally with all customers
  • Build rapport with Clients and Customers
  • Field questions and proactively develop action plans to resolve issues
Additional Responsibilities

  • Demonstrates high degree of professionalism in communication, attitude and teamwork with customers, peers and management
  • Demonstrates high level of quality work, attendance and appearance
  • Adheres to all Company Policies & Procedures and Safety Regulations
  • Adheres to local, state and federal laws
  • Performs the job safely utilizing proper equipment and safety techniques
  • Additional responsibilities as assigned by supervisor related to the position/department


Any estimate, schedule, or guideline provided to associates in this job description or elsewhere in connection with their jobs is only intended to help describe job duties and for planning purposes.

Regardless of any such estimate, schedule, or guideline, associates must always record all time worked for our company (which includes but is not limited to on-site work time in an assigned store, office, or other work location; required waiting time; administrative time; and work-related travel time.

Travel and/or Driving Requirements

Travel and Driving are daily essential duties and function of this job

Must maintain current and valid driver's license and valid proof of current insurance.

Minimum Qualifications

The following are the minimum job-related qualifications which an individual needs in order to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job

Education Level:
(required): High School Diploma or GED or equivalent experience

Field of Study/Area of Experience:
Basic knowledge of retail merchandising and/or selling

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

  • Aggressive selfstarter with a strong bias for action and results orientation
  • High sense of urgency; strong drive and passion to win
  • Keen attention to detail
  • Excellent customer service, interpersonal and communication skills; position requires daily discussions with customers at all personnel levels.
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