Sales Associate

Sales Associate

The Sales Associate is responsible for maximizing sales and distribution of all products on assigned route. Assisting in marketing, merchandising and delivery efforts as needed in order to accomplish monthly, quarterly and annual performance objectives. Building strong relationships with all customers and ensuring quality of products at retail outlets.

Essential Functions:

• Maximize retail efforts through the execution and implementation of established sales and marketing program.
• 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.
• Ability to perform other job duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; six months to two years sales of the beverage industry experience and/or training; or 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:

• Use hands to finger, handle, or feel and 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.

This 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.

This job description is not intended to create a contract of employment. It provides a general overview of the primary duties and responsibilities of the position but does not (and cannot practically) represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list. Duties, responsibilities, and requirements may change or be assigned at any time based on business needs, and the company reserves the right to modify this description accordingly.

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.