Sales Associate Grocery

Sales Associate Grocery

We are the Wellbeing Collective, an exciting new Global Business Unit within Unilever built with a start-up mindset. In North America these include OLLY, Liquid I.V., SmartyPants, Welly, Onnit and Nutrafol. Each of these companies has a fantastic variety of benefit-led products, with strong innovation and growth potential. Our mission, with our science-backed and disruptive portfolio, is to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of consumers and become a leading Health and Wellness organization. As part of working together to achieve these goals, we have formed one customer facing account team called the Sales Collective to support OLLY, Onnit, SmartyPants and Welly. Being part of the Collective offers a fantastic opportunity to represent more brands, and provide one voice to our customers, while also developing best in class capabilities. This will be a remarkable group of people coming together to work across a number of the different operating companies.

OLLY is a fast-growing San Francisco based company working to bring simplicity and delight to the world of nutrition. Yes, stuff like vitamins, probiotics and supplements to help you be you. We see only upside in the opportunity to transform the category experience. Not only that, we believe you can't have happy without healthy. And isn't true happiness where it's at? So we've made it our personal mission to help people make healthy choices by making it easier than ever for them to get better nutrition into their daily lives. We are also a B-Corp, so doing social good is built into our DNA.

SmartyPants is a dynamic and fast-growing Los Angeles based supplement company focused on providing premium all-in-one vitamins for the entire family. From the start, SmartyPants has been about family, authenticity and a core commitment to our collective well-being. SmartyPants believes in making it easier to stay healthy by providing best-in-class products that also taste great. We're industry leaders in testing, transparency and advocacy, from sourcing the highest-quality ingredients to testing and packaging.

The VMS Co-Op works in an agile and entrepreneurial way, collaboratively within the team and with our Health & Wellbeing colleagues. We work together to look at the big picture strategically as well as roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty. We're super passionate about the work that we do and we're on the hunt for a fellow self-starter to add to our unique culture and join our ambitious team.

The Role - Sales Associate - Grocery

As an entry-level Sales Associate, you will support our sales team in building strong customer relationships, analyzing sales data, and executing key initiatives to drive growth in the Conventional Grocery channel. This is an excellent opportunity to launch your career in sales with a company that values innovation, collaboration, and personal development. Associate will be working cross functionally with Olly, SmartyPants, Welly and Onnit in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Support sales efforts within the designated area, including customer and broker partnerships.
• Assist in building and nurturing relationships with grocery customers and procurement buyers.
• Analyze sales data and market trends to provide actionable insights and recommendations.
• Help prepare presentations and sales materials for customer meetings.
• Monitor competitive brands and products to understand shopper trends.
• Track new item launches and support execution in the market.
• Maintain and update weekly reporting tools and dashboards.
• Build selling deck and all necessary materials for customer meetings, including but not limited to sell-in stories, monthly meetings and line reviews using customer specific and syndicated data
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful execution of sales initiatives.
• Uphold team values : Be Yourself, Be Disruptive, Be Passionate, Be Supportive. Nurture and evolve our culture to enable a happy, healthy, productive team who knows what they need to do to win; endeavor to make our offices great places to work and support a hybrid work environment that puts people and connection first
• Additional team ownership responsibilities as assigned

Capabilities + Skills Required

What To Expect During The Interview Process

The Details

LOCATION : Remote - USA

HOURS : Full time, exempt (salaried)

TRAVEL : Up to 1015%

MANAGER : Reports to Director of Sales, Grocery

PLEASE NOTE : Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

The salary range for this position is $59,680.00 - $89,520.00 dependent on experience and location.

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