Job Type
Full-time
Description
URM Stores, Inc. is looking for a talented Center Store Retail Counselor to join our ever-growing team. Our Center Store Retail Counselor is responsible for providing our member retail locations with assistance of proper product placement and new item distribution. This position requires the individual to work independently, able to perform re-set work and or set sections to schematics as requested from our member-owners.
We believe our team should be like a family, the family you choose to be with every day. We are also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change.
If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond and put your ambition to work, all while having some fun, let’s chat – Apply Today!
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain member/owner loyalty and confidence in URM.
- Develop effective working relationships with member/owners and keep each informed and educated on URM programs and platforms.
- Assist Member/Owners and store managers in sales promotion programs and store layouts on Grocery, Frozen, General Merchandise products.
- Develop product-merchandising plans as requested. Assist in actual product placement and stocking as directed.
- Utilize reports, order forms and guides for item distribution checks and to increase new product distribution.
- Maximize sales on Super Buy and other specific sales events and items.
- Improve product placement and space allocation of all Grocery, General Merchandise and Natural/Specialty Food products.
- Assist with new store Gondola and shelving installation.
- Frequent Travel is involved – Approx. 12-15 nights per month.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 3-year General Merchandise and/or Retail Grocery Management Experience.
- Retail Grocery experience or related fields required.
- Excellent Customer Service and interpersonal abilities.
- Hands on experience implementing planograms is a plus.
- Able to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.
- Ability to collaborate with a wide range of personalities.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, good judgment, time-management skills.
- Retail Grocery experience or related fields required.
Why Join Our Team?
It is fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they are doing. For the last 102 years, URM has been committed to bringing customer focus to our Member-Owners. Employees at URM are proud to be a part of the number one food distributor in the Inland Northwest.
We seek only those who stand out above the rest-progressive thinkers who push our company forward in a positive way. We work in a supportive team environment and in addition to our amazing culture, our employees enjoy many perks, below are a few of the highlights:
- Salary $26 an hour DOE.
- Medical/Dental/Vision/RX Insurance Benefits – URM pays 100% of the premium for the employee and over 90% for your dependents!
- 401k Retirement Plan with an amazing Company match, and you will be vested from the first Company contribution!
- Life Insurance for you and your family.
- Short-and Long-Term Disability.
- Cancer Insurance.
- Vacation starts after just six months!
- Six Paid Holidays and three Paid Personal Float Holidays!
- Paid Sick Days.
- Company car.
- Company credit card.
- Cell phone stipend provided.
- A Paid Volunteer Service Day! Get paid to volunteer at your favorite local charity/non-profit!
- Fun employee events, such as March Madness Company Brackets and Holiday Breaks with great prizes!
- We also offer an Amazing Employee Discount Program at our Company-owned Grocery Stores!!!!
Our Company:
We are proud to be a part of the number one food distributor in the Inland Northwest. Since 1921 URM has been a retailer-owned business. URM’s core business is the purchasing, warehousing, and delivery of merchandise inventory to its Member-Owners. The shareholders of URM are all retail grocers who provide groceries to their local communities. URM operates on a cooperative basis, which means that all its net earnings on business done with or for its member-owners through its Patronage Departments are allocated and paid to its Member-Owners in the form of patronage dividends. Over the years, sales volume has grown to over $1 billion and employment to over 2,900 employees at URM and its subsidiaries-Rosauers Supermarkets and Peirone Produce.
URM Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of Race, Religion, Color, National Origin, Citizenship, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Ancestry, Veteran Status, Genetic Information, or any other classification protected by state or federal law. We are also committed to providing a work environment that is free of all forms of discrimination, regarding recruiting, hiring, training, promotions, compensation, and all other conditions of employment. The selected candidate must be able to successfully complete a pre-employment background check, and drug test, as URM is a drug free workplace ( including marijuana ).
Salary Description
Salary $26 an hour DOE.