Field Merchandising Specialist - Matthews, MO

**Benefits:** * Fuel Your Growth with Love's - company funded tuition assistance program * Paid Time Off * Flexible Scheduling * 401(k) - 100% match up to 5% * Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after 30-days * Competitive Pay * Career Development * Hiring Immediately **Welcome to Love's!  ** At Love's, our values go beyond our name.  We look for those same values in our people. The Field Merchandising Specialist will provide direct support to field operations and corporate departments to facilitate the implementation of projects, processes, programs, and tests related to Merchandising. We pride ourselves on innovation, quality, and reliability, driving our commitment to exceed customer expectations.   **Job Functions:** + Supervise and support the execution of annual planogram updates, store-level inventory counts, and inventory control initiatives to ensure compliance with vendor agreements and maintain accurate on-hand levels. + Facilitate and monitor inventory related training programs for store teams and ensure timely completion and effective rollout of updates. + Partner with vendors and store teams to maintain consistent in-stock levels and foster strong working relationships that drive profitable merchandising performance. + Provide hands-on assistance to field teams in executing merchandising programs, tests, and initiatives, including new store and SRI setups. + Collaborate with Field Auditor teams to refine loss prevention strategies and support the development of Inventory Management Coordinators. + Manage personal scheduling, travel logistics, expense reporting, and vehicle maintenance while assembling/disassembling fixtures and communicating daily with field leadership on merchandising issues   **Experience:** + 2+ years of merchandising experience preferred. + 2-5 years of experience as a retail general manager or assistant general manager required; multi-unit experience preferred. + A valid driver's license and ability to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen, background, and motor vehicle check.  **Skills and Demands:** + Frequent travel required within assigned region. + Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a customer satisfaction focus. + Exceptional customer service, positive rapport building, expert salesmanship, and ensuring satisfaction by managing operations and employee-vehicle deployment. + Strong organizational and multitasking abilities with attention to detail. + Effective teamwork skills. + Physical Demands: Regular talking and hearing. Active involvement requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing. Occasional lifting/moving of items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required. **Our Culture :** + Come see why Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores was recognized by Indeed as the winner of the Better Work Award in 2023.  **Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Veterans encouraged to apply.** **Love's has been fueling customers' journeys since 1964. Innovation and perseverance continue to lead the way for the family-owned and -operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City with more than 40,000 team members in North America and Europe. The company's core business is travel stops and convenience stores with more than 630 locations in 42 states. Love's continues its commitment to offer products and services that provide value for professional drivers, fleets, four-wheel customers, RVers, alternative fuel and wholesale fuel customers. Giving back to communities Love's serves and maintaining an inclusive and diverse workplace are hallmarks of the company's award-winning culture.** **The Love's Family of Companies includes:** + **Gemini Motor Transport, one of the industry's safest trucking fleets.** + **Speedco and Love's Truck Care, the largest oil change and preventive maintenance and total truck care network.** + **Musket, a rapidly growing, Houston-based commodities supplier and trader.** + **Trillium, a Houston-based alternative fuels expert.** + **TVC Pro-driver, a commercial driver's license (CDL) protection subscription service.** EOE-Protected Veterans/Disability