Greeting Card Sales Rep

Are you looking for a company with flexible scheduling to demonstrate your merchandising, customer service and sales skills?

Harper Group was founded and built upon integrity, professionalism and a dedication to sales achievement for our retailers and manufacturers alike throughout all of our territories. We strive to achieve great service and sales for those companies we are lucky enough to consider our customers and partners, through a tireless commitment to understanding their needs and helping to provide solutions to their problems.

Currently, we are seeking to hire a reliable Field Service Associate to maintain card displays in retail stores in the Northeast, Maryland area encompassing locations within  the Baltimore, Lutherville, . Annapolis, and Chestertown area. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving sales growth through proactive prospecting, opening new accounts, and providing exceptional service to existing clients, while fostering and maintaining strong relationships with key buyers. This position is a part time position with hours estimated to be between 15-20 hours per week, with a possibility for more weekly visits in the future. All part-time associates will receive sick time hours. You will also have the opportunity to grow your account base and increase weekly hours by opening new accounts. There will be opportunities for incentives based on performance This position is ideal for someone currently working in the greeting card/gift industry

In this role your responsibilities will include:

• Sell new products and categories to existing accounts during regular store visits
  


• Traveling to each store location monthly or quarterly as needed


• • Actively prospect for and open new retail accounts


• Merchandise and place orders for leading greeting card brands


• Check backroom stock to ensure all products are out on the rack prior to ordering


• Assist stores in entering seasonal card credits


• Use your own mobile technology to perform required job functions during each store visit


• Perform job functions during each visit such as placing orders 

Interested? Read on.

Qualified candidates will possess:

• Merchandising experience (preferably in greeting cards the gift industry preferred)


• Must be reliable, and willing to visit stores regularly


• Ability to work independently


• Ability to read and understand English


• Access to transportation


• Occasional use of small manual and powered hand tools


• Maintain a quick work pace with optimum time management to improve productivity


• Willingness to prospect for new accounts