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Our team is looking for Sales Merchandiser for our site in Port Coquitlam.

Join our family of diverse, talented, and dedicated people and become part of an industry-leading company as we strive to be the most successful food company in the world.

Title: Sales Merchandiser

Location: Port Coquitlam, BC

Job Type: Fulltime, Permanent

Main Duties:

• Manage a weekly schedule to ensure full assigned territory coverage and support for National and Independent Retail Banners and ensure objectives are efficiently achieved.

• Install point of sale material (POS) to support promotions or product launches, ensuring product and promotional/POs materials are visible and accessible.

• Support the Regional Sales team to reach established sales targets by ensuring execution requirements negotiated by the Key Account teams are applied at store level.

• Attain more space allotment and product visibility/accessibility by persuading customers with sales or execution comparisons based on knowledge of other regional stores, informing customers of "best practices," and various other techniques.

• Establish business relationships with customers and regularly follow up to ensure on-going satisfaction with products and services.

• Participate in Team meetings and share customer feedback, potential business opportunities and detailed local market intelligence with Sales Team, as required.

• Remain apprised of industry trends and changes to the competitive environment. Communicate with key resources in stores and perform other duties as required.

• Audit and enforce distribution, visibility, promotion, and pricing activity with relevant banners.

• Assist stores to secure impactful product merchandising and proper stock rotation.

• Support Independent Specialists with display building, merchandising, cheque collection and demo support.

• Manage a base of direct sale customers to drive increased rate of sale and minimize store level credits.

• Complete required activity tracking reports for Regional Manager and supported Key Account teams.

• Participate in sales meetings to obtain information on sales objectives, promotional actions, new products, field problems, etc.

Requirements:

• 1-3 years Retail or Foodservice sales or merchandising experience.

• College or University degree is desirable.

• Valid driver's license and vehicle.

• Ability to travel to customers daily with overnight travel every 4-6 weeks.

• Strong negotiation and communications skills.

• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships.

• Results-oriented with a focus on achieving sales targets.

• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.

• Familiarity with CRM, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook.

• Experience with Sales Cube, Power BI, or similar Business Intelligence platforms.

Job Dimensions

• Greater Vancouver Area includes travel to Vancouver Island.

Working Conditions

• Must be able to work physically, frequent bending, twisting, kneeing, squatting, reaching over shoulder, waist level and from the floor.

• This position requires normal visual/sensory effort.

• The position typically operates in an agreeable work environment with majority of time spent commuting and visiting customers.

• There is regular pressure from various internal and external sources.

What we have to offer:

• Full benefits (health, dental, and disability) from day 1.
• Pension plan with company match up to 4.5% after 1 year.
• $1000 referral bonus

Please note that the expected hiring range provided is derived from a group of like roles within Sofina. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, skillset of the candidate and internal equity.

Sofina Foods Inc.is a privately owned Canadian company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada dedicated to providing great-tasting, high-quality food products for consumers.

Our workforce is exceptionally diverse with professional opportunities across many functional areas of our business.

Consider applying for one of our exciting opportunities today.

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