Part-Time Territory Sales Associate
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Part-time Territory Sales Associate representing Hershey candy brands across Columbia, South Carolina retailers. Executing merchandising, distribution, displays, and store-level sales priorities.
Responsibilities:
- Sell and ensure best-in-class merchandising for Hershey brands
- Build displays, increase distribution of top-selling items, and replenish permanent secondary displays
- Execute sales priorities and support retail strategy within an assigned territory
- Use consultative selling to interpret store and retailer priorities and influence solutions
- Develop and execute retail priorities before each store call
- Apply sales strategies, influence, and negotiation techniques to secure opportunities and commitments
- Lead problem-solving efforts and evaluate alternative approaches
- Sell and maintain 100% distribution of authorized Hershey items
- Execute headquarters sales and merchandising plans with retailers
- Achieve merchandising objectives using permanent secondary displays and other display vehicles
- Report weekly activity, expenses, account changes, promotions, and administrative functions
- Report daily activities using tablets at the end of each day
- Visit approximately 6–10+ accounts per day and travel throughout the assigned territory
- Partner with store leadership, internal teams, and peers to implement strategies and solve problems
Requirements:
- Valid US state-issued driver’s license
- Personal vehicle in sound operating condition
- Personal auto insurance with minimum coverage of $100,000 per person / $100,000 per accident / $100,000 property damage, permitting business use
- Reside or be willing to commute within the listed territory boundaries
- Ability to drive long distances and make multiple daily sales calls
- Ability to lift 10–40 lbs. regularly, with or without reasonable accommodations
- Ability to bend, kneel, stoop, and demonstrate manual dexterity frequently, with or without reasonable accommodations
- Ability to use tablet technology
- Daily access to wireless internet
- Flexibility and adaptability to changes in territory coverage
- Availability to work 20–25 hours per week
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent
- 3–4 years of food merchandising experience preferred but not required
Benefits:
- Mileage for travel reimbursed at 62 cents per mile
- Flexible schedules
- Reasonable accommodations available
- Equal employment opportunity
















