Beverage Merchandiser

Job Description

Salary: $17.00/hr or DOE

The merchandising position is critical part of our business and ultimate success. Merchandisers work in retail store locations to get our product on store shelves and displays. This position interacts with personnel at the store location to keep shelves full and backroom areas clean. It's a labor-intensive position requiring lifting, loading, pushing and pulling cases weighing from 20-45 pounds per case repeatedly over 10-12 hour work period. As well as bending, reaching and squatting while merchandising and moving products. This is a position that works weekends and holidays.

This position is responsible for product merchandising within retail stores. This includes but is not limited to:

Driving a company vehicle to customer accounts

Stocking shelves

Rotating shelved product

Setting up displays

Stocking and rotating products in coolers

Organizing and rotating products in storage rooms

Moving products from storage to the sales floor.

Primary Accountability:

Merchandise store shelving, coolers and displays with our products in assigned accounts

Rotate products in the backroom and on the shelf

Transport products to and from backroom to shelf location

Use equipment to transport products (e.g., U Boats, hand trucks, pallet jacks, etc.)

Display promotional material such as signs and banners in accounts

Keep back room stock in neat and orderly condition

Communicate store issues to store managers and Peninsula bottling salesperson and/or management

Build customer relationships at the store level

Comply with operating procedures (e.g., sign-in/sign-out, following designated route, etc.)

Service accounts during designated times established by management

Deliver customer service (e.g., communication, rapport building, attentiveness to customer needs, etc.)

Ability to operate under minimal supervision (self-managed role)

Ability to work and stay productive while alone

Use hand held devices to write/input orders if needed

Regular, reliable, predictable attendance

Basic Qualifications

18 years or older

Must submit to a drug screen

Pass physical capabilities test (if applicable)

Pass the background check

Valid driver's license

Must have clean driving record so they can be insured to drive company vehicles

Helpful Experience

Working for a retail business or grocery store (e.g., understanding store operations, knowing the backroom and inventory, stocking aisles and shelves, etc.)

Moving products within a store (e.g., safely stacking and moving products on equipment such as a u-boat, hand truck/dolly and/or breakdown, etc.)

Merchandising products (e.g., filling shelves, building displays, making products look attractive, rotating products, cleaning shelves, eliminating out of stocks and out of date products, etc.)

Managing backroom/stock room inventory (e.g., organizing pallets, stacking and storing inventory or products, etc.)

Serving customers (handling customer complaints, responding to customer requests, or meeting customer needs)

Full-time