Merchandiser - LIBERTY/PLATTE CITY

About the Role

Join the team at Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company as a Merchandiser. You'll be responsible for stocking Coca-Cola beverage products in retail accounts, ensuring all beverage sections, end caps, racks, and displays are filled for consumers. You'll also monitor product date codes and rotate products to maintain quality and freshness.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and replenish products on store shelves, racks, displays, and coolers by transporting products between the backroom/storage room and the sales floor using manual or powered equipment, ensuring all product deliveries are fully worked.
• Build, change, or remove product displays while adhering to company standards, maintaining product signage, cleaning product spaces, and securing damaged or defective products.
• Manage backroom operations by organizing products, monitoring and reporting inventory levels in partnership with the account manager, utilizing FIFO (First In, First Out) training to ensure timely sales of products.
• Evaluate and process damaged products, re-pack products, organize backroom materials (e.g., pallets, product shells), and perform weekly rotation of front-stock and back-stock, completing any required paperwork.
• Communicate and collaborate with the team upon completion of each account and at the end of the shift, using the Teams app to post recap pictures for accounts immediately after servicing.
• Maintain professional relationships with co-workers and customers.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Minimum of one year of work experience required, preferably in grocery, retail, warehouse, manual labor, or a related field.
• Must be 18 years of age and legally eligible to work.
• Must have a personal vehicle for use during working hours.
• Valid Driver's License, current vehicle liability insurance, and a driving record within policy guidelines (no major violations within the last three years).
• Prior experience using equipment such as pallet jacks and high loader lifts preferred; ability to obtain powered industrial truck certification upon hire is required.
• Basic computer application and technology skills, including knowledge of how to operate a smartphone and/or laptop.
• Flexibility with work hours, including evenings, weekends, and some holidays due to customer demand.

Physical Requirements

• Speaking: Constantly (investigating, negotiating, recommending, reporting, etc.)
• Acute Vision: Constantly (observing both near and far, reading documents)
• Typing: Frequently using electronic devices for day-to-day business (email, reports, texting)
• Mobility: Frequent travel throughout customer locations (walking in backrooms, aisles, greeting customers)
• Bending/Squatting: Frequently (looking in racks at all levels, ordering product, counting cases, checking dates)
• Lifting: Frequent – Lift 40 lbs. or less (full cases of product)
• Pushing/Pulling: Frequent use of manual carts
• Driving: Frequent travel between customer locations

Pay

$19.75 per hour

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits package to full-time employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, wellness programs, and tuition reimbursement. Part-time employees are eligible for paid time off, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement.

Schedule

Working weekends with two days off during the week. Start time is 7 am.

Pre-employment background check is required. Heartland Coca-Cola is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and is veteran-friendly.