• Job Description

  Req#: 23053

  SALES SOLUTIONS SPECIALIST - COSTCO - FLEXIBLE LOCATION (PREFERRED-LISTED BELOW)

  This has a flexible location with Hayward Office, Hayward, CA preferred, or flexible locations Naperville, IL, Irvine, CA or home office.

  To save time applying, Hormel Foods does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas for this position at this time.

  Relocation is not eligible for this role.

  About Hormel Foods — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™

  Hormel Foods Corporation, based in Austin, Minn., is a global branded food company with over $11 billion in annual revenues across 75 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters®, SKIPPY®, SPAM®, Hormel® Natural Choice®, Applegate®, Justin’s®, Columbus®, Wholly®, Hormel® Black Label® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named on the “Global 2000 World’s Best Employers” list by Forbes magazine for three years, is one of Fortune magazine’s most admired companies, has appeared on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s “The 100 Best Corporate Citizens” list for the 12 years, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company lives by its purpose statement — Inspired People. Inspired Food.™ — to bring some of the world’s most trusted and iconic brands to tables across the globe. For more information, visit www.hormelfoods.com and https://csr.hormelfoods.com/ .

  RESPONSIBILITIES:

  The person in this position:

  • Works with the customer, sales and customer service teams to identify and communicate order shortages, shipment delays, and their resolutions.
  • Performs all necessary aspects of the transactional requirements of trade spending. This includes entering promotional events, updating events, preparing customer deal sheets/contracts, identifying discrepancies between deal sheets and events in the system, and collecting and retaining performance documentation as required by the trade policy for each promotional event.
  • Serves as the primary contact for the Sales Service Center in resolving discrepancies in customer deductions and payment requests.
  • Checks performance billings from customers for accuracy and inputs the trade management system documents for record retention.
  • Updates the actual volume of each promotional event.
  • Completes weekly sales spin data entry in a timely manner and with accuracy.
  • Manages promotional calendars, distribution lists, and other tasks with a high proficiency in Excel.
  • Performs a variety of other routine office and sales-related activities as assigned.
  • Perform all necessary aspects of administrative support, including answering phones, presentation, and report preparation and communication, scheduling travel and meetings, coordinating paperwork, and samples as needed.
  • Perform necessary aspects of office management, including maintaining supplies and services, paying related invoices, tracking and reporting payroll time, managing office deliveries and shipments, coordinating team meetings and special events.

  QUALIFICATIONS:

  Required

  • Demonstrated above average proficiency in the Windows environment, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, calendar, and have basic internet navigation skills.
  • Demonstrated pattern of highly effective communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrated above average problem solving and analytical ability.
  • Organization and prioritization skills.
  • Ability to initiate appropriate action independently as well as exercise maturity in judgment.
  • Ability to work with details in a fast-paced environment; prioritizing and multitasking within systems.
  • Ability to learn new systems for data entry and reporting.

  Preferred

  • Experience using Excel pivot tables.
  • Experience working with deal entry and data reporting systems.
  • Analytical skill set and problem solving skills.
  • Experience in Customer Service.

  The base pay range is $17.50 to $30.53 per hour; however, actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge, skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.

  Hormel Foods offers an excellent benefits package. Competitive wages, annual merit increase, performance reviews, medical, dental, vision, profit sharing, 401(k) with employer match, stock purchase plan and more.

  Hormel Foods Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, gender orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

• About the company

  Hormel Foods Corporation is an American company founded in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, by George A.

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