Market Development Manager

Full-Time Market Development Manager

Who You Are:

Your 2+ years’ experience in retail sales and self-motivating personality will help you succeed managing your market with independence.

Your Next Challenge:

• Train, develop, and educate retail sales specialists on the feature benefits of client's products
• Sells, demonstrates and promotes client's products in retail stores
• Builds brand awareness and presence at retail in your assigned market
• Collects and reports on in-store activities, assisted sales programs, and competitive information to grow your market and the brand
• Gathers, summarizes, and reports out on field and channel feedback and insights on a daily and weekly basis
• Prepares merchandise in retail locations with visual displays and in-store promotional material. Oftentimes sets up and troubleshoot visual merchandising
• Coordinates and executes special awareness and sales events at retail locations
• Position will work retail store hours including weekends up to 75%; 80% of time spent in retail stores training, merchandising and demoing products

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree: emphasis in business, marketing, or communications preferred
• Knowledge in home appliance and electronics strongly preferred
• Sales experience highly desirable, 2 years minimum experience
• Ability to build strong partnerships will be pivotal in the success of this role
• Must be able to implement and trouble shoot visual merchandising
• Thorough understanding of the retail space and visual merchandising in retail sales environment
• Must have the ability to educate and communicate product knowledge through excellent presentation skills
• Excellent communications skills required in order to build strong, collaborative partnerships
• Outgoing and enthusiastic personality that is a self-starter and can work with minimal direct supervision
• Strong persuasive skills that can effectively shift sales decisions
• Must have the ability to motivate, influence and promote client's products to the consumers at the retail level
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 suite including, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• reliable transportation is REQUIRED to transport merchandise to retailers
• Access to the internet is REQUIRED
• Candidate must be able to lift 75 lbs with the ability to move, install, and/or setup product as needed in stores or for special events and trainings