Merchandiser

About the role

The Merchandiser plays a key role in the sales process of Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Company products. They visit customer locations to set out product, rotate new product, and install and maintain point-of-sale displays.

Responsibilities

• Follow Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling’s merchandising standards and sales campaign diagrams.
• Set out and rotate products to create visually appealing displays that positively reflect the company and iconic Coca-Cola brand image.
• Act as corporate liaison for the sales team, ensuring professional contact with customers while maintaining a clean and neat appearance.
• Follow proper rotation procedure for all product areas (e.g., shelving, coolers, displays, and back-stock).
• Install and maintain point-of-sale items such as discount coupons, channel price tags, display headers, pole signs, and static clings.
• Assist the Account Manager with price-management issues.
• Communicate timely to the sales/account manager and/or supervisor any account issues or potential opportunities.
• Maintain a clean and orderly work area while ensuring a safe environment for themselves, customers, and consumers.
• Keep back stock area organized, clean, and condensed per company and customer standards.
• Perform minor as-needed maintenance on displays and report escalated repairs to the Merchandising Supervisor.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Ability to follow directions and excellent verbal communication skills.
• Excellent team-player with a customer-focused approach; ability to positively and effectively interact with customers is essential.
• Ability to make frequent visits to multiple customer sites each day.
• Valid driver’s license and dependable transportation.
• Good problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze and effectively solve on-site problems, including under potentially stressful situations.
• Flexibility to adapt to varying situations.
• Regular, consistent attendance is an essential job function.

Physical Demands

• Extensive regional day travel is required.
• Position is very active, requiring constant standing, walking, pushing, and pulling.
• Regularly required to talk and hear, with time spent both on the customer floor and in back rooms.
• Frequently lift and/or move items up to 40 pounds (moving equipment and tools provided to reduce strain and injury).
• Expected to:
  • Lift 40 pounds up to shoulder height occasionally.
  • Lift up to 20 pounds above the head occasionally.
  • Push carts using 100 pounds of force occasionally.
  • Carry up to 40 pounds occasionally.
• Occasional to frequent twisting, grasping, reaching, bending, kneeling, sitting, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

This role is considered safety-sensitive.

Schedule

Work hours will be a static, five-day work week. Additional or alternative days/times may occasionally be needed, depending on customer and/or promotional campaign requirements.

Work Environment

The role will travel to various customer sites, resulting in varying environments. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Company maintains a drug-free workplace, and employees are subject to pre-employment/post-offer and random drug testing.