Event Specialist Part Time Sales

Advantage Solutions is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. Advantage Solutions services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers.

The Event Specialist generates excitement, brand awareness, and increases product sales through event sampling and promotions. The Event Specialist is responsible for reading all program materials, set up and breakdown of their working area, and preparing and sampling products on scheduled event days.

* Set up, break down, product preparation and sampling during in-store demonstrations * Generate brand awareness and positive product impressions to increase sales * Assess customers individual usage needs and interests in order to best recommend products * Timely complete of all call reports, paperwork, and on-going personal training by required deadlines

* High School Diploma preferred or equivalent job-related experience * Experience in event marketing, demonstrations, sales, brand promotion or retail/grocery * Interact in a friendly, enthusiastic, energetic and outgoing manner with management, clients, and consumers in any setting * Stand comfortably for up to 6 hours a day * Able to work independently and as a motivated team player * Ability to work a part-time retail schedule, Monday through Sunday * Minimal travel required for training or other scheduled events * Daily access to a PC computer with internet/email access