Johnson Brothers
Sales Trainee/Merchandiser
The Sales Trainee/Merchandiser position is responsible for effectively managing an established sales territory, encompassing selling, servicing, merchandising, administration, and accounts receivable tasks. Key responsibilities include achieving sales objectives, executing territory management strategies, promoting current and new products, implementing promotions, conducting in-store tastings, and servicing accounts. This role is designed to provide comprehensive training to new personnel, preparing them to eventually manage their own sales territory. The Merchandiser role assists the Chain Retail Division in each market. Duties include delivering orders, rotating back stock, stocking shelves, displaying PO's and building displays. Merchandiser to receive the daily route via email from the Warehouse Manager and/or Merchandising Manager after orders have been fulfilled. Essential functions include maintaining routine contact with key decision makers, accurately delivering and checking orders, ensuring product is merchandised correctly, communicating effectively to resolve any ordering or shipping needs, meeting agreed upon goals and objectives effectively and in a timely manner, providing pictures of display, cold box, or shelf reset executions, keeping accurate daily and weekly logs of accounts visited, arriving to work, appointments, meetings, and other work-related functions on time, traveling within established geographic areas as necessary, holding a valid driver's license and meeting company driving record and automobile insurance requirements. Required skills include a high school diploma, 1 year of warehouse experience preferred, inventory control experience a plus, fork life certification is also a benefit, reliable transportation, clean driving record, ability to lift and carry 40+ pound cases of product, work flexible hours including early mornings, evenings, and/or weekends, ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines, self-motivated, ability to work alone as well as within a team structure, goal oriented, focused, assertive individual who needs little direction or supervision, proven track record of strong sales in previous/current work experience, excellent communication skills and interpersonal talents, regular, consistent, reliable, punctual and predictable attendance, ability to complete and pass a criminal background check, downloading and use of the app, TripLog, if an employee receives mileage allowance.
The Sales Trainee/Merchandiser position is responsible for effectively managing an established sales territory, encompassing selling, servicing, merchandising, administration, and accounts receivable tasks. Key responsibilities include achieving sales objectives, executing territory management strategies, promoting current and new products, implementing promotions, conducting in-store tastings, and servicing accounts. This role is designed to provide comprehensive training to new personnel, preparing them to eventually manage their own sales territory. The Merchandiser role assists the Chain Retail Division in each market. Duties include delivering orders, rotating back stock, stocking shelves, displaying PO's and building displays. Merchandiser to receive the daily route via email from the Warehouse Manager and/or Merchandising Manager after orders have been fulfilled. Essential functions include maintaining routine contact with key decision makers, accurately delivering and checking orders, ensuring product is merchandised correctly, communicating effectively to resolve any ordering or shipping needs, meeting agreed upon goals and objectives effectively and in a timely manner, providing pictures of display, cold box, or shelf reset executions, keeping accurate daily and weekly logs of accounts visited, arriving to work, appointments, meetings, and other work-related functions on time, traveling within established geographic areas as necessary, holding a valid driver's license and meeting company driving record and automobile insurance requirements. Required skills include a high school diploma, 1 year of warehouse experience preferred, inventory control experience a plus, fork life certification is also a benefit, reliable transportation, clean driving record, ability to lift and carry 40+ pound cases of product, work flexible hours including early mornings, evenings, and/or weekends, ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines, self-motivated, ability to work alone as well as within a team structure, goal oriented, focused, assertive individual who needs little direction or supervision, proven track record of strong sales in previous/current work experience, excellent communication skills and interpersonal talents, regular, consistent, reliable, punctual and predictable attendance, ability to complete and pass a criminal background check, downloading and use of the app, TripLog, if an employee receives mileage allowance.