Sales Associate

Overview

The Sales Associate is responsible for maximizing sales and distribution of all products on assigned routes. They assist in marketing, merchandising, and delivery efforts to meet monthly, quarterly, and annual performance objectives. The role involves building strong relationships with customers and delivery personnel, addressing customer needs promptly, managing retail accounts, increasing brand awareness, ensuring product quality, utilizing ordering systems effectively, and completing administrative tasks.

Essential Functions

• Maximize retail efforts through the execution and implementation of established sales and marketing programs.
• Builds strong relationships with customers and delivery personnel.
• Addresses customer needs in a timely manner.
• Maximize retail execution within assigned accounts through the use and utilization of retail account standards.
• Increase consumer awareness of brands through proactive shelf management practices to include presentations for additional space, location, flow, and ribbonization of products.
• Manage quality of all Company products to ensure that only fresh and damage-free product is available for sale and consumption.
• Utilizes ordering systems effectively to ensure proper inventory and orders thus eliminating out of stock and out of code situations.
• Solicits the primary placement of permanent point of sale within identified route.
• Stays abreast of competitive placement of signage.
• Completes administrative duties in a timely fashion.
• Executes all responsibilities of this position with Company’s policies and guidelines.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before customers or employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• 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 learn and abide by the laws regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages in the state of Texas and enforced by the TABC.

Minimum Qualifications

• Valid state motor vehicle license.
• Must be 21 years of age or older.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: Use hands to finger, handle, or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; frequently reach with hands and arms; occasionally stand, walk, sit, and climb or balance; and regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Specific Vision Abilities Required

• Close vision.
• Distance vision.
• Color vision.

Company Policies and Guidelines

The company adheres to policies and guidelines set forth by the company to ensure fair treatment and equal opportunity for all employees.