Central Market (Austin Westgate) Healthy Living Sales Rep - Part time

Sales Representative

A Sales Rep will be responsible for stocking and selling products to new and existing retail customers. Order assigned products to maximize sales. Merchandises, fronts, and sells products by performing the following duties. Work under immediate supervision and from detailed verbal and written instructions. Apply and develop basic skills in procedures, techniques, tools, materials, and/or equipment appropriate to area of specialization. Requires some specific product knowledge depending on the Department. Key responsibilities include providing good customer service, organizing, cleaning, and preparing back area for incoming deliveries, keeping sales floor uncluttered and free from spills, stocking and rotating items as needed, resetting products and maintaining shelf conditions ensuring integrity of shelf tags and signage in department, checking shipments for out-of-date and damaged product to ensure freshness and quality of products, ensuring that all federal, state, and company regulations and standards for product freshness, safety, refrigeration, and sanitation are met, maintaining standards in shrink, safety, and inventory control, assisting in merchandising the department to maximize sales, and using suggestive selling techniques to maximize sales.

Qualifications and key requirements include typically requiring 0-2 years experience, knowledge of department product, food preparation, and equipment used preferred, extensive knowledge of specialty food products and food preparation essential, strong customer service skills, passion for food, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work in fast paced environment, ability to work in extreme temperatures, and materials handling equipment certification.