Retail Sales Specialist - Chicago, IL

Job Description

Job Description

Retail Sales Specialist

Retail Sales Specialist candidates are organized, self-motivated and friendly. As a member of our Top-Performing Sales Team, you will work in Retail Sales with oversight and responsibility for increasing sales of our client’s products for leading brands. This Retail Sales position services and sells to retail accounts within an assigned territory, ensuring Client standards are met and sales volumes are increased. The ideal candidate for this Retail Sales position is independent, ambitious and driven to succeed with strong sales skills and the confidence to influence key decision-makers at the store level. This is a great opportunity to work with Advantage Solutions, the largest sales, and marketing agency in North America.

Your typical day as a Retail Sales Specialist:

• Selling in programs/additional inventory, building displays and merchandising product to the shelf
• Connect with key decision makers (KDMs) in each store visit to create collaborative relationships
• Delivering on Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) within each period
• Managing and traveling in your territory to achieve all store visits within each period
• Accurate and timely completion of reporting

What we offer:

• Competitive wages; $20.00 - $22.00 per hour
  • Get paid quicker with early access to earned wages
• Bonus and incentive programs
• Vehicle mileage reimbursement program
• Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Wellness, Paid Time Off, Company Holidays)
• 401 (k) with company match
• Comprehensive onboarding, training and personal career development
• No weekend or holiday work
• Early start times (enjoy your afternoons)
• Company provided technology (tablet & case), shirts and name badges

Now, about you:

• You're 18 years or older
• Demonstrate ability to be coachable, outgoing, and a strong communicator (verbally and written)
• Demonstrates ability to deliver results and manage multiple priorities
• Preferred: Have prior sales, merchandising, retail and/or CPG experience
• Can perform physical work of repeatedly moving, bending, standing and can lift up to 50 lbs.
• Can use your company-provided tablet to record work after and during each day
• Have reliable transportation (including insurance) to and from work locations and ability to store company-provided display equipment
• Are a self-starter and willing to independently travel within your assigned territory

Important Information

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of associates so classified.

Are you passionate about Service Excellence, Results, Integrity, Entrepreneurial Focus and Leadership: These are our values at Advantage Solutions. Come learn why “Winning Together” is more than just words on a piece of paper. It is the vision by which we live our mission as an organization: "To create outstanding value for clients and customers through superior sales execution, operational excellence, and innovative marketing services."

Advantage Solutions is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, Advantage Solutions shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

Advantage Solutions will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring (Ban the Box) Ordinance. All of our positions require the satisfactory completion of a background check. Please be aware that acknowledging or having criminal convictions does not constitute an automatic bar to employment. Factors including, but not limited to age and time of the offense, seriousness, and nature of the violation, and rehabilitation will be taken into account.

Company Description

Founder Sonny King saw an unmet need in the local sales agencies he encountered as an executive at Vons. He saw the opportunity for a strategically placed, trusted intermediary between manufacturers and retailers — one with the perspective to bring the outside in, an ability to connect the dots that others didn’t see and a relentless dissatisfaction with the status quo.

And so, Advantage was born.

More than three decades later, with nearly $4 billion in revenues and a platform that extends to more than 40 countries, that same vision drives every aspect of Advantage on behalf of more than 3,500 clients and our own business.

That’s why, when we saw the challenges our clients were experiencing using traditional advertising agencies for promotions, we launched what is now the market’s leading promotions agency, leveraging our deep understanding of manufacturer and retailer strategies to create stronger, more effective shopper-focused campaigns.

It’s why, when observing the uneven quality of in-store events, we created a transformative new approach that improved results for all and has become the No. 1 experiential and event marketing agency.

And why, seeing the exciting, but chaotic, development of omnichannel retailing, we built a digital technology division to bring our clients order and transparency and to identify and capture opportunities for them to grow their business.

It’s also why we continue to invest in technology, new services and talented people to ensure we remain at the forefront of the always-changing world of retail and consumer goods.

It’s an approach to business that’s enabled us to move into and add value in new industries, including foodservice, automotive, financial services and travel and leisure.

Never resting, always pushing innovation and creative collaboration, we strive to fulfill the vision of our founder by offering the most powerful, effective and cost-efficient solutions and services.

Through all the change of the last 35 years, our Advantage team remains certain in Sonny’s guiding principle:
Whatever the present circumstance, there is always a better solution.

Company Description

Founder Sonny King saw an unmet need in the local sales agencies he encountered as an executive at Vons. He saw the opportunity for a strategically placed, trusted intermediary between manufacturers and retailers — one with the perspective to bring the outside in, an ability to connect the dots that others didn’t see and a relentless dissatisfaction with the status quo.\r\n\r\nAnd so, Advantage was born.\r\n\r\nMore than three decades later, with nearly $4 billion in revenues and a platform that extends to more than 40 countries, that same vision drives every aspect of Advantage on behalf of more than 3,500 clients and our own business.\r\n\r\nThat’s why, when we saw the challenges our clients were experiencing using traditional advertising agencies for promotions, we launched what is now the market’s leading promotions agency, leveraging our deep understanding of manufacturer and retailer strategies to create stronger, more effective shopper-focused campaigns.\r\n\r\nIt’s why, when observing the uneven quality of in-store events, we created a transformative new approach that improved results for all and has become the No. 1 experiential and event marketing agency.\r\n\r\nAnd why, seeing the exciting, but chaotic, development of omnichannel retailing, we built a digital technology division to bring our clients order and transparency and to identify and capture opportunities for them to grow their business.\r\n\r\nIt’s also why we continue to invest in technology, new services and talented people to ensure we remain at the forefront of the always-changing world of retail and consumer goods.\r\n\r\nIt’s an approach to business that’s enabled us to move into and add value in new industries, including foodservice, automotive, financial services and travel and leisure.\r\n\r\nNever resting, always pushing innovation and creative collaboration, we strive to fulfill the vision of our founder by offering the most powerful, effective and cost-efficient solutions and services.\r\n\r\nThrough all the change of the last 35 years, our Advantage team remains certain in Sonny’s guiding principle:\r\nWhatever the present circumstance, there is always a better solution.