Sales Associate - Small Format
About the role
The Sales Associate at Capital Beer & Beverage 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 ensuring the quality of products at retail outlets.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- Valid state motor vehicle license.
- Must be 21 years of age or older.
Key Skills and Competencies
- Ability to read and interpret documents.
- 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.
- Ability to perform other work related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Valid state motor vehicle license.
- Must be 21 years of age or older.
Physical Requirements
- Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
- Use hands and arms to reach.
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Frequent reaching with hands and arms.
- Occasional standing, walking, sitting, and climbing or balancing.
Specific Vision Abilities Required
- Close vision.
- Distance vision.
- Color vision.
Company Policies and Guidelines
The Sales Associate must adhere to the company's policies and guidelines while performing their duties.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Capital Beer & Beverage provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.
Work Schedule
The role requires regular, ongoing in-office presence. Employees are expected to work onsite, which includes non-company locations where we conduct business, the majority of the time to support collaboration, productivity, and business operations according to the schedule set by supervisors and/or branch management.