Retail Specialist

Description

Now Hiring a Retail Specialist to cover Beaumont, TX, Orange, TX, and Lake Charles, LA!

Job Summary

Empire supports Meat/Seafood, Deli/Bakery, Produce, and Grocery suppliers in the Kroger stores which includes calling on all the stores in assigned territory within the established call frequency.

Essential Functions

• Sell and ensure best in class in store merchandising to include building displays, packing out product, and replenishing permanent secondary displays and maintain salability of all authorized items.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions:

  • Shelf Maintenance

  • Product Analysis & Reporting

  • Promotional Display Maintenance

  • Customer Support and Training

  • Other Administrative Duties

Physical Requirements

• Core Functions:

  • Shelf Maintenance

  • Product Analysis & Reporting

  • Promotional Display Maintenance

  • Customer Support and Training

  • Other Administrative Duties

• Physical Demands:

  • Ability to operate a motor vehicle and travel regularly between work sites.

  • Additional travel as needed, which may include overnight stays.

  • Prolonged periods of standing – 80% of the time.

  • Able 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.

  • Able to lift and move 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.

Requirements

• Educational and Experience:

  • 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 personal motor vehicle to and from work sites.

  • Regular operation of manual pallet jacks and hand trucks on work sites.

  • MS Excel Work 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 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.

Salary Description

$36,000 - $38,000