Job Description
In this role, you will act as an extension of our clients brand and sales teams, calling on retailers in your assigned territory.
The Role: Retail Sales Representative for DeLonghi – Ottawa/Gatineau – Part-time approx. 18 hours per week
The Perfect Person For The Role:
You are a dynamic person who enjoys a great cup of coffee, and appreciates premium small home appliances. A motivated, self-starter with a passion for winning. You have top-notch communication and relationship-building skills with a knack for educating your customers on the value and benefits of carrying exceptional products. You love being on the road, working independently. Your enthusiasm for your brand is infectious. You may be a recent University/College graduate with an analytical mind, looking to start your career in sales. If you already have some sales experience, all the better!
What You’ll Be Doing Every Day:
- Build relationships with key store personnel
- Build brand loyalty and creditability with retail sales associates - Be the Brand Champion!
- Travel within assigned market to visit all stores in the territory according to the designated frequency
- Ensure in-store marketing standards are maintained, resulting in brand awareness
- Engage customers during high traffic times at select ‘demo day’ events to drive sales of brand products
- Facilitate informal, formal and large-scale trainings to retail associates and managers
- Attend and assist with out-of-market trainings and events
- Provide merchandising services to deliver POS, and ensure compliance verification and competitive details
- Gather in-market and out-of-market intelligence and provide field insights
- Maintain product displays and product functionality while in-store
Your Experience:
- Superior communication and presentation skills
- Amazing relationship building skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ideally 1-3 years of territory sales and merchandising experience; or training experience
- Strong personal drive, positive attitude and excellent problem-solving skills are essential
- Aptitude for fast learning, and ability to self-support with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment
A few other things we’ll expect from you:
- Genuine interest in part-time, long-term employment
- The ability to lift and move up to 40 pounds
- Full access to a reliable vehicle
- High-speed internet with WiFi at home
- The ability to store some supplies at home and transport them in your vehicle
The RIGHT Fit with Encore:
At Encore, we feel that no matter your background, what’s most important to your success and ours is the way you interact with others. Don’t get us wrong, if you have the right experience and skills, that’s great. So, if you’re thinking about working with Encore, it’s important that you know what we’ll expect from you:
- You believe in winning
- You bring passion and innovative thinking that will deliver results
- You believe that the words ‘work’ and ‘fun’ belong in the same sentence
What Encore's All About:
At Encore, we possess the expertise in field sales to ensure our clients are successful in their most critical market channels. Going deep with few...being nimble and responsive for us is more than a turn of phrase, it is a way of life...and it comes down to the following Vision and Mission that compel us to outperform every day. Our Vision: The first choice for tier one organizations seeking to optimize their field sales investment. Our Mission: Provide uncompromising quality of service and unparalleled caliber of thinking...developing strategies and delivering solutions that enable our clients to win.
How to Apply:
If you haven’t already figured it out, it’s really important for Encore to have the RIGHT Team. If you know that you’re a great match for this role and think you’ll be a great fit with Encore, then you should definitely apply to this exciting opportunity! If you’re not jazzed about what you’ve read so far, that’s OK, we’re sure the right job is out there somewhere for you.
For those of you who apply, thanks so much for your interest in learning more about this exciting opportunity. We’d love to chat with all of you, but sometimes we simply don’t have enough time. If we feel you’re a good match, we’ll definitely be reaching out to you to move you forward in the selection process. If you're selected, you'll be asked to complete a recorded, digital interview which you can do with a webcam or a mobile device with a front-facing camera.
Encore strives to make our recruitment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provides accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities. If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and selection process, please reach out to us.
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