SAS Merchandiser Retail Team Lead Part Time

Summary

SAS Merchandiser Retail Team Lead

 

SAS Retail Services provides national retail merchandising services to a host of fortune 500 CPG companies, distributors, and wholesalers, within the grocery, mass, home/hardware, and drug channels. We are looking for a Lead Merchandiser who will lead associates in the merchandising process, ensuring compliance to standards and goals, and keeping the team on task. They will be responsible for plans and changes to schedules are adhered to while exceeding client expectations and business needs. They will be responsible for executing projects while making decisions to release, cancel or defer work based on inventory, demand, capacity, and material availability.

 

The Lead Merchandiser is the direct communication link in merchandising process, and will need to be able to facilitate communication with their team, supervisor and the retailer. 

 

Our people are what make SAS Retail Services a great place to work. All of us work hard to win for the customer – some of the nation’s largest retailers — and that’s what makes it fun, the drive to do whatever it takes to get the job done. APPLY TODAY!

 

What We Offer

• Dental, Vision after 30 days
• 401(K) Plan
• Paid training and ongoing career development certifications and courses.

 

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of associates to implement merchandising work, ensuring compliance to the process and exceeds service expectation.
• Plan and adjust to reflect changes to schedules, ensure changes are adhered to for the duration of assignment. Ensure materials are available for display.
• Communicate with your team, supervisor and retailer to resolve issues and ensure smooth execution of the assignment.
• Execute special projects, makes decision to release, firm cancel or defer work based on current inventory, demand, capacity and material availability. . 
• Performs and is directly responsible for; merchandising, resets, reporting, schematic integrity, POS, equipment needs the following processes, and training.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma required.
• 1 or 2 years of merchandising experience required.
• Preferred: some supervisory experience, previous work in retail or grocery environment
• Ability to use POS equipment and GAMS payroll system.
• Leadership and training skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Provide excellent customer services, including assessing the needs of the customer to best recommend products.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, able to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a timely manner.

 

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled

Responsibilities

The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

 

Merchandiser Reset Team Lead

 

Merchandiser Reset Team Lead is responsible for merchandising; resetting the company manufacturer’s products at retail accounts to ensure customer and clients expectations are met.

 

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

 

Reset Activity, Shelf Conditions and Schematics Completion: Be able to implement customer approved schematics/plan-o-grams/MODs with all items tagged and approved by store management. Must be able to take direction regarding tagging, rotating, and placing products on shelf.

 

Customer Relations: must have the ability to communicate effectively both internally to company management and externally with Customers.

 

Administration/Reporting: will complete (web based) accurate and timely reporting, recaps, timesheets, expense reports, etc.

 

Supervisory Responsibilities

 

Direct Reports

This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports

 

Indirect Reports

This position does not have guidance or mentoring responsibilities for indirect reports

 

Travel and/or Driving Requirements:

 

Travel and Driving is an essenti