RETAIL MERCHANDISER

Retail Merchandiser

CROSSMARK is a leading sales and marketing services company in the consumer goods industry that expertly guides our clients along "The Way to Market" by delivering growth solutions with exceptional service. Our expertise spans the grocery, mass, club, drug, convenience store, and home improvement channels among others, and our solutions bolster our clients' capabilities for developing best practices, insight analysis, and customer targeting that always hit the mark.

We do this by excelling in four key areas – headquarter selling, retail merchandising, store level marketing, and streamlining trade practices. In business for more than 100 years, CROSSMARK employs more than 20,000 associates worldwide in offices in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, CROSSMARK is a privately owned corporation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Description

This is a short term position starting Aug. 22 through Nov. 21. Hiring immediately. To all you incredibly talented, challenge seekers, dare-to dreamers, early to rise in the morning go-getters, outside-of-the-box thinkers, experience-driven trendsetters, and creative brainstorming doodlers, we just have four words: We're looking for you.

CROSSMARK is looking for creative, social team members that want the opportunity to work with major retail vendors to help create lasting impressions on our customers. Retail Merchandising Representatives are responsible for quality performance of retail tasks and objectives to achieve superior results for CROSSMARK'S clients and customers.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Education/Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); Prior retail experience is preferred, but not required.
• Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; stoop, kneel, crouch, climb or balance. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 25 pounds and to occasionally lift up to 60 pounds from the floor to waist or chest high. Significant time driving a vehicle may be required. In general, resets can be very physical in nature. Reset activities could include: removing items from the shelf, moving shelves, building fixtures, reorganizing the products according to the plan-o-gram provided, replacing shelf tags, filling in new products and retrieving additional stock when necessary.
• Computer Skills: Proficient use of a Personal Computer, printer and familiarity with Adobe, Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Tools: Daily access to the internet with the ability to meet system requirements, printer and phone. You must have access to reliable transportation. The reliable transportation must be able to transport you and task materials a minimum of forty miles from your home to execute a variety of work.
• Operating a Personal Vehicle: In the event the associate drives a personal vehicle for business purposes, the associate is required to maintain a valid state-issued driver's license and the minimum auto insurance coverage specified by the associate's state of residence.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Associates are required to submit to a standard background check and drug screening as required when designated by the client.
• Work environment: Retail store environment with some travel. Some projects include early mornings (i.e. 4-5am), overnight travel, weekends or nights and holidays.
• Language Skills: English is the primary language skill, however, bilingual skills may be required based on business necessity.

Additional Information

Responsibilities:

• Schedules tasks on weekly basis to meet execution objectives
• Executes retail merchandising tasks as scheduled
• Performs stores/tasks in efficient/cost effective manner
• Accurately reports all completed retail tasks via the appropriate designated systems on the day the work is performed.
• Communicates effectively with store personnel regarding tasks, sales activities, promotions, and client/sales plan objectives
• Completes required training and certification programs.
• Engage every work day with CROSSMARK'S communication tools for the purpose of accurately planning, reporting, and reviewing work.
• Ability to implement retail schematics and merchandising materials as assigned.
• Flexibility to participate in team scheduled tasks and clients work-withs.
• Dedicated to providing excellent customer service and to develop a professional working relationship with store management, associates and other merchandising companies to effectively meet company and client objectives.
• Insures proper maintenance on all company equipment.
• Follows company policies, procedures, and position responsibilities.
• This role is not expected to exceed more than 24 hours per week, although the company does maintain the discretion to change the role based on the needs of the business and/or the client.

Note: This job description does not imply that the above functions are the only tasks that may be performed. Associates will be expected, if possible, to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related tasks as directed by management.