Sales Associate (On-Premise)

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 achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual performance objectives. They build strong relationships with customers and delivery personnel, address customer needs promptly, maximize retail execution, manage product quality, utilize ordering systems effectively, solicit permanent POS placements, stay informed about competitive signage, and complete 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, including presentations for additional space, location, flow, and ribbonization of products.
• Manage quality of all Company products to ensure 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 routes.
• 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

• Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school.
• Six months to two years sales experience in the beverage industry or training.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Desired Qualifications

• Valid state motor vehicle license.
• Ability to secure and maintain a State Sales Permit in accordance with state laws and must be 21 years of age or older.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Regularly required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequently required to reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and climb or balance.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Glazer’s Beer and Beverage provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.