Part-Time Retail Specialist

About the role

Now hiring a Retail Specialist for Katy, Cypress, and Richmond, TX areas! Supports Meat/Seafood, Deli/Bakery, Produce, and Grocery suppliers in the Kroger stores.

Responsibilities

• Shelf Maintenance: Rotate product as required, conduct regular checks, ensure 100% distribution of products, and maintain salability of all authorized items.
• Product Analysis & Reporting: Maintain and update territorial records, review sales reports, maintain competitive awareness, and report information through proper channels.
• Promotional Display Maintenance: Set up displays, coordinate promotional programs, execute POS materials, and manage Instant Redeemable Coupons.
• Customer Support and Training: Establish rapport with store personnel, perform training demonstrations, and provide customer support.
• Other Administrative Duties: Communicate via email and phone, maintain territory files, attend meetings, exercise expense control, and perform other duties as required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Current Driver’s License and clean Motor Vehicle Report required.
• 1-2 years of CPG/grocery/retail industry related experience preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to operate a motor vehicle and travel regularly between work sites.
• Prolonged periods of standing – 80% of the time.
• Regular lifting and moving up to 25-35 pounds.
• Regular use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to see objects, information on computer screens, and/or view written information, from distances of 20-40 feet.

Tools and Equipment

• Regular operation of a personal motor vehicle to and from work sites.
• Regular operation of manual pallet jacks and hand trucks on work sites.
• MS Excel.

Work Environment

• Duties are typically performed in a retail grocery store setting, which could include refrigerated or freezer environments.
• Also required to be in outside facilities, including but not limited to, customer warehouses, kitchens, and manufacturer-client facilities, all of which require more safety precautions than a normal office environment.
• Noise levels – typically moderate.

Skills/Abilities

• Ability to write clear and concise correspondence.
• Ability to accurately exchange information.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Ability to operate autonomously, with strong personal drive for results.
• Ability to effectively present information in one on one or group situations.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple to sometimes complex instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Salary

$17 - $18 Hourly