Full Time Retail Sales Representative Canada

Summary:
**Full Time Retail Sales Representative**

At our company, we grow people, brands, and businesses.

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**Things To Consider**:

- You will be assigned a territory servicing multiple locations, access to reliable transportation is critical
- Shifts are Monday through Friday
- Able to lift or push up to 50 pounds; comfortable standing, stooping and bending for long periods of time

**What We Offer**:

- Full Time Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Paid training and ongoing career development
- Mileage and travel reimbursement
- Competitive pay rates

**What You’ll Do**:

- Flex your organizational skills to build relationships with store personnel, create impactful action plans, and support a positive brand image
- Ensure sales are flawlessly executed on time and against client’s growth initiatives
- Meet and exceed sales goals by increasing in-store visibility of client products and promotions
- Ensure products are always available by maintaining merchandising and display standards
- Implement innovative marketing strategies that drive product positioning and awareness

**Qualifications**:

- High school diploma or GED or equivalent experience
- 1-2 years of retail sales or merchandising experience preferred
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with customers at all personnel levels
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task, elevated sense of urgency, and attention to detail
- Strength working independently, but also as a member of a team
- General computer skills/understanding and daily Internet accessibility

**Responsibilities**:
Advantage Sales and Marketing LLC dba Advantage Solutions is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. Advantage Solutions services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Position Summary

The Retail Sales Representative (RSR) is responsible for developing and growing sales volume in their assigned territory through effective fact-based selling and relationship building with retail account’s operations personnel at store and market (district) level.

Essential Job

**Responsibilities**:
Consultative Selling
- Developing and leveraging relationships with key influence and decision makers in assigned stores and markets
- Delivering consistent market level contact as per client standards
- Effectively gaining front end and main aisle presence of client brands. This is accomplished in conjunction and alignment with store or market personnel so that the primary merchandising and stocking duties are done by store personnel. This collaborative relationship is developed on a mutual interest and business relationship.

Achieving Results
- Meeting or exceeding POS to plan goals for assigned stores and markets
- Delivering a positive gap versus Non-DRT
- Growing POS for client brands by selling incremental display locations, selling the execution of plan-o-gramed locations, executing initiatives as well as maintaining in stock conditions.
- Analyze and develop business plans each trimester that identifies opportunities to grow sales within their territory. This business plan would include a review of the previous trimester, analysis of upcoming POS to plan goals, opportunities to close gaps, an action plan with specific territory goals and time table.

Organizing and Planning
- Follow team sales call standards and effectively orchestrate a call coverage plan that meets the business needs of client and the retail customer.
- Administration/Reporting
- complete accurate and timely paperwork, reports, recaps, itineraries, timesheets, expense reports, etc.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct Reports
- This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports

Indirect Reports
- This position does not have guidance or mentoring responsibilities for indirect reports

Travel and/or Driving Requirements
- Travel is not an essential duty and function of this job. Driving is an essential function of this job.

Driving 20%

Minimum Qualifications

Education Level: (required): High School Diploma or GED or equivalent experience

Field of Study/Area of Experience:

- 1-3 years of previous experience in retail sales

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Well-organized, detail-oriented, and able to handle a fast-paced work environment
- Excellent written communication and verbal communication skills
- Strong com