Manager Retail Regional

Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for retail and a knack for driving sales? Join our team as a Retail Regional Manager and take charge of managing and developing a retail sales organization within an assigned territory. Represent Acosta and our principals by overseeing retail store coverage, special projects, and executing key objectives to achieve superior in-store results.

Join us and lead a team to success while driving sales and enhancing customer engagement. Apply now to become a Retail Regional Manager and make a significant impact in our organization!

• Achieve Sales Goals: Deliver Sales Fundamentals (Distribution, Shelving, Merchandising, and Pricing) goals across all principals on agreed retail priorities.
• Enhance Sales Coverage: Maintain continual improvement of sales coverage and productivity of the Retail Selling Organization.
• Policy Compliance: Monitor and ensure Company policy is followed by the Retail Selling Organization.
• Collaborate and Communicate: Pro-actively communicate and collaborate with supervisors and principals on all major detail initiatives (new product introductions, contests, etc.).
• Build Relationships: Call on and develop relationships with key operations decision-makers to enable Business Managers to achieve the principals’ objectives.
• Lead and Train: Act as a trainer for team-mates, lead on projects, and may be assigned to key accounts.
• Primary Operations Contact: Serve as a primary operations contact for the Customer Business Team.
• Coordinate Events: Coordinate theme merchandising events that cross over two or more departments.
• Expert Resource: Be an expert resource to General Managers and Business Managers for all operations issues, and effectiveness of both full-time and part-time members.
• Support Communication: Assist Business Managers and multi-function resources to communicate customer needs, objectives, and future plans.
• Reporting and Tracking: Coordinate the regional reporting and tracking needs (RW3, surveys, etc.) to ensure consistency and control.
• Utilize Technology: Effectively and properly use technology including RW3, communication of retail priorities, and coverage analyses to have effective feedback and measurement systems.
• Data Analysis: Analyze retail condition data reports to improve in-store presence results.
• Personal Development: Ensure personal development of Unit Managers and conduct annual Performance Agreements. Oversee the training and development of full-time and part-time reps.
• Optimize Selling Effectiveness: Understand and optimize the selling effectiveness of the Retail Sales Organization. Identify areas for improvement.
• Recruiting and Maintenance: Conduct recruiting of Retail Associates, maintain incident files, and personnel auto inspection.
• Additional Duties: Perform other duties as assigned.

• Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent. Bachelor’s degree in Business preferred.
• Experience: Five years of prior retail management experience, food broker and set responsibility experience required. Prior supervisory experience required.
• Skills: Strong interpersonal, organizational, and sales skills. Proficient in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Requirements: Valid driver’s license and ability to drive a car for extended periods. Willingness to work in extremely cold environmental conditions (i.e., refrigerated and freezer sections of retail stores).

Physical Requirements:

• Vision: Seeing
• Travel: Ability to Travel
• Color Perception: Color Perception
• Hearing: Listening

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