As a Merchandising Zone Lead and Trainer at Premium, your role is pivotal in ensuring the success of our field team. You’ll achieve this by connecting merchandisers to our organizational culture and equipping them with the necessary resources to meet client objectives within retail stores. Drawing from your extensive merchandising experience across various retailers, you’ll impart that knowledge to merchandisers in your assigned coverage area. This includes tasks such as resets, ensuring POG (Planogram) compliance, and facilitating new item cut ins. 

Your proactive and positive approach will shine through as you conduct store audits, collaborating closely with both your manager and fellow merchandisers—whether in person or over the phone. Your primary focus will be training merchandisers to execute their tasks with 100% compliance, while fostering strong relationships with store personnel. By doing so, you’ll contribute to the merchandising excellence that our Premium clients expect.

What’s in it for you?

·       Flexibility in scheduling your work hours.

·       Certification in all Retailers, clients, and job types.

·       Opportunity to take the lead on projects and directly impact client success.

·       A clear-cut path for advancing your career within Premium.

·       Quarterly bonus opportunity.

·       Health plan options including no-copay telemedicine, regardless of hours worked.

What will you do?

·       Bring your merchandising experience from all retailers and pass that knowledge by training new and tenured merchandisers.

·       Work 20-35 hours per week (unless position is designated as FT).

·       Travel up to 75 miles one-way. 

·       Lead and complete complex resets, ensuring reset/revision POG compliance, and new item cut-ins. 

·       Conduct Time Studies for new projects.

·       Manage Schedules-coordinate with management to conduct in-person trainings with merchandisers.

·       Complete store audits. Work side-by-side or on the phone with both your manager and those merchandisers in your area.

·       Job/Project Review - Review and provide feedback on project instructions, survey questions, POP installation.

·       Retail Work - must successfully complete all work assigned/scheduled accurately & timely. 

·       Work with Client's in the field.

·       Build relationships with store personnel to ensure merchandising excellence for our Premium clients.

How will you succeed?

·       Sharing your expertise and being passionate about training other and ensuring merchandisers understand how to succeed.

·       Looking for creative ways to solve problems.

·       Dedicating yourself to continually improving your stores and the success of other merchandisers.

·       Using your awesome communication skills and staying organized.

·       Building strong relationships with field team members, Premium management and retail partners within your assigned area(s).

So, are you Premium’s next Merchandising Lead and Trainer?

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For more information about our merchandising team, visit https://premiumretail.com/merchteam/