The merchandising position is critical part of our business and ultimate success. Merchandisers work in retail store locations to get our product on store shelves and displays. This position interacts with personnel at the store location to keep shelves full and backroom areas clean. It's a labor-intensive position requiring lifting, loading, pushing and pulling cases weighing from 20-45 pounds per case repeatedly over 10-12 hour work period. As well as bending, reaching and squatting while merchandising and moving products. This is a position that works weekends and holidays.

This position is responsible for product merchandising within retail stores. This includes but is not limited to:

• Driving a company vehicle to customer accounts
• Stocking shelves
• Rotating shelved product
• Setting up displays
• Stocking and rotating products in coolers
• Organizing and rotating products in storage rooms
• Moving products from storage to the sales floor.

Primary Accountability:

• Merchandise store shelving, coolers and displays with our products in assigned accounts
• Rotate products in the backroom and on the shelf
• Transport products to and from backroom to shelf location
• Use equipment to transport products (e.g., U Boats, hand trucks, pallet jacks, etc.)
• Display promotional material such as signs and banners in accounts
• Keep back room stock in neat and orderly condition
• Communicate store issues to store managers and Peninsula bottling salesperson and/or management
• Build customer relationships at the store level
• Comply with operating procedures (e.g., sign-in/sign-out, following designated route, etc.)
• Service accounts during designated times established by management
• Deliver customer service (e.g., communication, rapport building, attentiveness to customer needs, etc.)
• Ability to operate under minimal supervision (self-managed role)
• Ability to work and stay productive while alone
• Use hand held devices to write/input orders if needed
• Regular, reliable, predictable attendance

Basic Qualifications

• 18 years or older
• Must submit to a drug screen
• Pass physical capabilities test (if applicable)
• Pass the background check
• Valid driver's license
• Must have clean driving record so they can be insured to drive company vehicles

Helpful Experience

• Working for a retail business or grocery store (e.g., understanding store operations, knowing the backroom and inventory, stocking aisles and shelves, etc.)
• Moving products within a store (e.g., safely stacking and moving products on equipment such as a u-boat, hand truck/dolly and/or breakdown, etc.)
• Merchandising products (e.g., filling shelves, building displays, making products look attractive, rotating products, cleaning shelves, eliminating out of stocks and out of date products, etc.)
• Managing backroom/stock room inventory (e.g., organizing pallets, stacking and storing inventory or products, etc.)
• Serving customers (handling customer complaints, responding to customer requests, or meeting customer needs)