Part-Time Sales Associate

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Serve as a Territory Sales Associate, representing Hershey brands within a designated area.

• Promote and ensure top-tier merchandising standards, which includes constructing displays, enhancing distribution, and restocking permanent secondary displays.

• Implement sales priorities and assist in retail strategies to positively impact store-level results.

• Utilize consultative selling, negotiation, and influence tactics to create retailer solutions and secure commitments.

• Set and execute retail priorities prior to each store visit.

• Lead problem-solving initiatives and assess alternative strategies.

• Achieve and maintain 100% distribution of authorized Hershey products.

• Implement corporate sales and merchandising plans across various retailers.

• Meet merchandising goals through the use of permanent secondary displays and other display methods.

• Conduct visits to approximately 6–10+ accounts daily.

• Submit weekly reports on activities, expenses, account updates, promotions, and administrative tasks.

• Record daily activities using tablets at the end of each workday.

• Travel throughout the assigned sales territory collaborating with store leadership, internal teams, and colleagues.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must possess a valid driver's license issued by a US state.

• Must have a personal vehicle that is in good working condition.

• Must maintain personal auto insurance with a minimum coverage of $100,000 per person, $100,000 per accident, and $100,000 for property damage, allowing for business use.

• Must either reside within or be willing to commute to the specified territory boundaries and ZIP codes.

• Must be capable of driving long distances and making multiple sales calls each day.

• Must be able to regularly lift between 10–40 lbs., with or without reasonable accommodations.

• Must frequently be able to bend, kneel, and stoop, demonstrating manual dexterity, with or without reasonable accommodations.

• Must be adept at using tablet technology.

• Must have daily access to wireless internet.

• Must exhibit flexibility and adaptability to changes in territory coverage.

• Availability to work between 20–25 hours per week.

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent is required.

• 3–4 years of experience in food merchandising is preferred but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work schedules.

• Mileage reimbursement at 62 cents per mile for travel expenses.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunity.

• Reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.