Demo & Merchandising Specialist - Los Angeles

Chomps•Los Angeles, CA

3d•$25 - $35•Onsite

About The Position

We’re Chomps, the fastest-growing meat snack brand in the U.S. and we’re reimagining snacking. Our meat snacks are made using high-quality proteins, no sugar, and real ingredients – because we believe snacking should be simple, delicious, and convenient. Chomps can be found in over 30,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, real food that doesn’t compromise on taste. Traits of a Chompian If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you. The Retail Specialist is our Chompian in stores sharing the product benefits, premium attributes and uses of Chomps. The Retail Specialist supports our Business Analytics function and Account Owners in conducting in store demonstrations and store visits in their region while functioning as the conduit between the brand, product and consumer at point of purchase.

Requirements

Self-motivated and solutions oriented.
Collaborative mindset with strength in effectively receiving and communicating feedback.
Proactive, clear and direct communicator.
Results oriented and process driven, with high expectations of self and team.
Valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle to transport equipment and travel to different events.
Must be 18 years or older.
This is a full time role, up to 40 hours a week.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
Prior promotional and demonstrating experience a plus.
Has a passion for great natural product brands!

Responsibilities

Conduct store visits in Grocery and Natural channel retailers per direction of Sales and Business Analytics Teams (About 40% of workload).
New item acceptance (close voids) in Key Accounts to include, but not limited to: Whole Foods, Sprouts, Erewhon, Ralph's.
Merchandising: Pack out product from back of house and drive new orders.
Shelf tag management/promotional compliance.
Secondary Displays and selling in shipper program.
Product education.
Execute demos in store (50% + of workload): Must build baseline understanding of Chomps message points to clearly communicate food credentials, product benefits, premium attributes and uses to consumers at point of purchase.
Must be able to establish a quick rapport with a wide variety of shoppers and store personnel while building relationships at store level.
Demonstrate a sales acumen yielding strong demonstration performance by meeting our exceeding sales goals.
All activity (Demos/Store Visits) will be processed through retail CRM platform (Repsly).
Must be prepared to engage in physical activity including ability to stand on feet for entire length of demonstration (up to 8 hours) and lift products up to 40lbs.
Prepared to travel locally approximately 90% of the time.
Accepts responsibility for the organization goals by taking ownership of new and different duties and identifying new opportunities at retail.