Merchandiser

• No nights or weekends
• Flexibility for Work Life Balance
• Growth potential
• Continuous training and upskilling our team to better prepare for the future
• Full complement of benefits
• Voted best workplace for 4 years in a row by The Griffin Report
• Awarded Diversity Equity Inclusion Award 2021 and 2022
• Strong growth over 83 years

The goal for the Merchandiser is to prepare and reconfigure merchandise displays in stores so that it is both available for customers to purchase and for the Route Salespeople to support. The individual in this position will be responsible for interpreting planograms, arranging and rearranging merchandise displays in accordance with established planograms and providing support to the Route Salespeople.

The successful candidate will be responsible for performing all of the duties successfully, to include:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Provide information on:

• Read and implement planograms
• Set-up displays in accordance with planograms for seasonal and promotional product
• Sign displays
• Ensure proper pricing of product
• Load product on display
• Setup and re configure in-line sections as directed utilizing established planogram
• Provide merchandising support, including pack-out and maintenance of in-line departments, set-up of promotional and sales displays, and introduction and cut-in of new items.
• Assure customer satisfaction with Imperial
• Other duties as needed

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 functions.

• Basic computer skills – requiring able to use a log in and password and follow simple instructions.
• Previous supermarket and/or retail route sales and/or service experience a plus.
• Knowledge of product and/or experience with merchandising general merchandise or health and beauty care products preferred.
• Ability to read and write short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Your Own/Reliable Transportation

Education

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Basic computer skills – requiring able to use a log in and password and follow simple instructions.

Experience

• Previous supermarket and/or retail route sales and/or service experience a plus.
• Telxon/MSI experience helpful.
• Knowledge of product and/or experience with ordering and merchandising general merchandise preferred.

Language Skills

• Ability to read and write short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Other duties as assigned.
• Keep work area clean.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.

• The employee must regularly handle items weighing up to 20 pounds lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The employee is exposed to hot/cold weather depending upon the season.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

IND- High Priority