Ready Program Teammate - Rotational Program

Advantage Solutions • Rogers, AR

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About The Position

Advantage Solutions’ READY Program is a strategic initiative to build a strong internal pipeline of future Advantage leaders through robust learning experiences and impactful career development opportunities. The READY Program Teammate position is an important investment in developing future leaders who are strategic, innovative, insight-driven, and customer focused. This 24‐month program immerses teammates in a series of structured, rotational assignments across four key Branded Services teams— Retail, Analytics/Insights/Operations, Headquarter Sales, and Business Development—ensuring they gain comprehensive, cross-functional expertise. With a comprehensive development plan that includes actionable on-the-job and structured learning, Executive Mentorship, career coaching, and networking, the position develops leaders with organizational savvy, business acumen and leadership skills, who can drive long-term business success.
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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Candidate must have completed their undergraduate degree between May 2025 and May 2026)
• Minimum of 1 year of internship and/or professional work experience required
• 1+ Years of experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word
• Strong ability to develop and deliver virtual and in-person presentations to all audience types
• Willingness to engage and build relationships with a variety of internal and external leaders, clients and retail partners
• Collaboration and Team building Skills
• Ability to work independently using strong prioritization and time management skills to meet deliverables
• Ability and willingness to operate in a fast-paced and changing work environment

Nice To Haves

• Consumer Packaged Goods Industry (CPG) Internship and/or college curriculum/major in Food/Beverage/Marketing/Category Management a plus
• Consumer Packaged Goods Industry (CPG) Industry data sources (Circana, Nielsen, etc.) knowledge and usage skills a plus

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with retail decision makers, retail personal and client representatives.
• Execute strategic retail partnerships needs and client initiatives to drive sales growth.
• Analyze market data, competitive activity and business trends to develop retail sales strategies
• Develop actionable insights and recommendations utilizing a broad range of data metrics, tools, and analytics to influence customer engagement strategies.
• Develop engaging, insight driven, customer facing presentations that effectively communicate findings, actionable tactics and strategies.
• Master data visualization tools and various software platforms to strengthen business recommendations and business process efficiencies.
• Forecast, design, and conduct business and financial models for client promotional trade plans.
• Analyze and develop insights using multiple data sources to identify business opportunities.
• Collaborate with Key Account Managers and Category Leadership teams to build compelling selling presentations to achieve client’s business objectives.
• Provide strategic input into client’s annual business plan adding fact-based insights and solutions to achieve client’s objectives.
• Own and manage Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy, ensuring data is leveraged effectively for business development.
• Utilize CRM to gather data, insights and reports for monthly Senior Leadership Pipeline review meetings.
• Identify and prioritize new business opportunities by analyzing industry and business trends, developing insights and mastering tools like; LinkedIn, Circana and Nielsen
• Perform comprehensive new business research and new Client Discovery/Intake meetings to identify quality new clients and business opportunities.
• Support new business RFP process and preparation/presentation development for new client meetings.
• Train READY team on Industry, client and customer knowledge
• Collaborate with READY team to develop and present business opportunities to Senior Leaders
• Complete cross-functional project work to understand company organization, strategies, client services and business objectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level