Part-time Retail Support Specialist
Empire Marketing Strategies · Lynchburg, VA · 1 mo ago
Business DevelopmentPart-time
About the role
The Retail Support Specialist supports retail execution across an assigned territory by completing reset projects, maintaining shelf standards, and ensuring accurate product placement, pricing, and distribution. The position sets and services promotional displays, partners closely with store teams, and provides territory-wide support through reporting, communication, and occasional training. It also includes basic administrative duties and collaboration with the retail team to meet client, manufacturer, and retailer expectations.
Essential Functions
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions:
- Retail Reset Projects
- Sale Maintenance
- Promotional Display Maintenance
- Retail Team Support
- Other Administrative Duties
Core Functions
- Retail Reset Projects
- Sale Maintenance
- Promotional Display Maintenance
- Retail Team Support
- Other Administrative Duties
Physical Requirements
- Ability to operate a motor vehicle and travel regularly between work sites.
- Prolonged periods of standing – 80% of the time.
- Ability to change positions between sitting, squatting, standing and kneeling on a regular basis.
- Regular lifting and moving up to 25-35 pounds from one location to another, sometimes several feet away from each other.
- Occasional lifting and moving up to 40-60 pounds from one location to another, sometimes several feet away from each other.
- Regular use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
- 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.
Education and Experience
- A 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.
- Knowledgeable, detailed understanding and consistent use of all available functions of handheld device.
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.
Required Skills/Abilities
- Ability to write clear and concise correspondence.
- Ability to accurately exchange information.
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Ability to be able 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.
Pay
Earn a competitive salary plus 80% employer-covered benefits.
Schedule
Flexible, M-F Work Schedule, 9 Holidays off
Benefits
Part-Time Associates: Eligible for our retirement program and access to mental health support resources