Paint Specialist Full-Time

The Paint Specialistis responsible for sales performance in the paint department, ensuring salesgoals are being achieved. This includes all paint-related sales including sundries, liquid paint and other accessories as well as working with the store manager to ensure that we have a depth of product to serve our Ace for business customers as well as our retail customers. You will also help develop store employees as well as develop business strategies to meet goals and increase sales in a competitive marketplace. In this position, you will grow the company’s market share by selling to large, commercial users, such as paint contractors, as well as retail customers. 

Responsibilities

• Provide high standards of customer service and guide, assist, and walk customers throughout the paint department.
• Develop businessstrategies to increase sales and optimize profitability
• Handle customerorders and sales transactions
• Meet sales goals by training, motivating, mentoring, and providing feedback to store employeess
• Build and maintain knowledge of all products to ensure effective customer recommendations
• Build positive relationships with wholesale and retail customers
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures including safety, loss prevention, and security
• Maintain outstanding department conditions and visual merchandising standards, including promotional packages and sales floor displays
• Respond to and resolve any customer and/or employee complaints
• Make outside sales calls to increase market share
• Assist with receiving, checking in and stocking of merchandise throughout the store
• Assist with merchandise resets through the store
• Assist with maintaining back stock levels
• Possess strong product knowledge and knowledge of store layout and location of products
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• 1-2 years’ experience in Retail/Selling paint and paint related products
• Must have at least a High School diploma or GED
• Having work experience using customer relationship management preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to communicate clearly and effectively in all situations
• Strong problem-solving and organizational skills
• Ability and willingness to work flexible hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays to meet the needs of the business
• Must have a valid, unrestricted Driver’s License

Physical Requirements

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• Employee must regularly move and/or lift 50lbs-75lbs
• Ability to read, write, analyze, interpret and understand the English language with sufficient proficiency in order to read and understand
• While performing the duties, the employee is regularly required to stoop, kneel, crouch, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, and color vision with the ability to adjust focus
• Occasional travel may be required

Company Introduction

Gerrity’s Ace Hardware was started in 2020 by Gerrity’s Supermarket Owner, Joe Fasula. The Clarks Summit PA location was the first Ace Hardware purchased by Gerrity’s. Gerrity’s Ace currently has 5 locations and plans to open more in the future. We are affiliated with Ace Hardware Corporation based in Oak Brook, IL which is a retailer-owned hardware wholesaler that began operation in 1924.