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Promotions/Event Specialist
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Job description for promotions specialist
- Admin; loading the promoters onto the data-base
- Recruitment; using company Gumtree, Campus Radios and word of mouth
- Making and confirming bookings for the campaigns
- Providing promoters with response forms
- Following up on the response forms from the promoters who had worked the previous week.
- Scheduling meetings for the promoters every Wednesday
- Interviewing the promoters every Thursdays
- Screening the whole day on Thursday
- Confirming promoters for weekly events and ensuring that everything is in order.
- Liaise with accounts managers with the campaigns that are running on Thursday
- Ensure that they have the right people booked for the campaign
- Compile files for the successful promoters
- Double check if we have all the correct documents that are in place
- Data capturing
- Ensure that data base is updated by communicating with the regional co-ordinator
Responsibilities for event specialist:
Conducts consumer facing activities:
- Event specialists are friendly and knowledgeable, and represent our client professionally.
- Event specialists share information about the products and encourage sales.
- Make a significant impact on sales and improve the customers’ buying experience.
- Assist customers based on their individual usage needs and interests.
- Complete call reports, paperwork, and on-going personal training in a timely manner, meeting all deadlines.
- An 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, preparing, and sampling products on scheduled event days.
Conduct demo event for approximately five hours
- Engage the consumer by creating brand awareness and enthusiasm
- Dynamically and aggressively sell product to consumers. To move around the area to approach customers in a professional manner this generates enthusiasm for the product and the event.
Move from location to other locations within store to obtain product.
Set up event within approximately 15 minute period
- Carry heavy appliances/equipment. Purchase product and supplies and assemble stage; construct/set-up/display Point of Purchase materials – insert price signs, display product information.
Break down/clean up event within approximately 15 minute period
- Clean up/sanitise and disassemble stage. Return appliances/equipment (requires carrying/lifting up)
Administrative work
- Study product materials to develop product knowledge. Review event schedule, complete call reports and timesheets. Attend training materials check voice mails, emails calls with supervisor/others as needed.
Requirements
Job requirements:
- Diploma preferred or equivalent job-related experience.
- Significant experience in event marketing, demonstrations, sales, or retail is highly desirable.
- Must be confident, and articulate to speak effectively and informatively with consumers.
- Independent and motivated team player.
- Ability to stand comfortably for up to eight hours a day.
- Minimal travel required for training or other scheduled events.
- Ability to build strong relationships with store managers and store customers.
- Friendly, outgoing personality; confidence and enthusiasm to engage retail shoppers.
- Great communication skills e.g. ability to connect with customers and sell products.
- Basic knowledge of how to use a computer; access the internet; send, receive, and review email; download documents from website or email; submit event reports.
- Conduct demonstration within period of time designated for the event
- Execute demonstrations on scheduled date and time.
- Stand for up to 6 hours and actively move around store. Set up, clean up and related equipment/materials; obtain product from shelves; conduct demonstration event.
- Ability to climb step ladder to reach up to 10 feet in order to obtain/lift/move product or appliance
- Satisfactory completion of background check/drug testing subject to applicable law.
Other requirements:
- Must perform the job safely and utilise proper safety techniques and use of equipment when appropriate. Executes verbal and written business communications, in a manner that effectively achieves business objectives, reflects the company’s commitment to integrity, and is in keeping with company policies (Including Code of conduct).
- The employee shall be required to perform other duties from time to time, which may reasonably be expected of her within the operation of the employer’s business. In performing these duties the employee shall at all times exhibit full loyalty towards the employer.
Contact details
Sherri
Retail Insight
