Field Merchandiser

Overview

Field Merchandiser role on a traveling field team executing hands-on merchandising projects across TA locations, including store resets, cooler resets, fixture changes, planogram implementation and promotional execution.

What you'll do

• Follow all BP and TA safety policies, procedures and protocols at all times, and use required PPE.
• Complete required safety training and maintain a safe work environment for team members, store employees, customers and vendors.
• Follow proper lifting, material-handling, ladder, equipment, cooler and fixture-installation procedures.
• Immediately identify and report unsafe conditions, damaged equipment, injuries or other safety concerns.
• Maintain clean and organized work areas and leave stores safe and customer-ready at the end of each workday.
• Participate in complete and partial store resets, reflows, remodels and merchandising refreshes.
• Tear down, move, assemble, rebuild, level and position retail fixtures and shelving according to approved store layouts.
• Remove and reinstall shelves, peg hooks, displays, racks, endcaps, merchandising accessories and other store fixtures.
• Safely move product and fixtures throughout the store as required to complete resets.
• Assist with receiving, staging, organizing and installing new fixtures and merchandising materials.
• Identify damaged or missing fixtures, components or supplies and communicate issues quickly to the appropriate project leader.
• Complete cooler resets, reflows and merchandising refreshes according to approved layouts and planograms.
• Remove, stage, organize and replace refrigerated merchandise as necessary to complete cooler resets.
• Adjust shelves, product placement, facings and merchandising organization within coolers according to approved plans.
• Assist with reorganizing cooler space to improve product presentation, shopability, inventory capacity and replenishment.
• Identify damaged shelving, fixtures, tags, signage or other cooler-related merchandising issues and communicate them to project leadership.
• Coordinate cooler work with store management to minimize product exposure and disruption to normal store operations.
• Read, understand and accurately execute approved store layouts, floor plans, planograms, cooler layouts and merchandising instructions.
• Set shelves, fixtures, products and displays to the specifications provided.
• Ensure correct product placement, facings, shelf heights, spacing, sequencing and merchandising presentation.
• Validate that completed sections match approved planograms and layouts.
• Identify situations where store conditions prevent proper execution and call out those issues rather than making unauthorized changes.
• Support field validation of new layouts and planograms and provide feedback when execution challenges are identified.
• Assist with organizing and improving backrooms, storage areas, coolers and other inventory holding areas as part of reset and reflow projects.
• Organize inventory to improve accessibility, replenishment, inventory visibility and overall store efficiency.
• Help identify excess, obsolete, discontinued, damaged or misplaced merchandise and follow established disposition procedures.
• Organize merchandising supplies, fixtures, shelving, signage and other materials to improve store-level execution.
• Help establish sustainable organization standards that store teams can maintain after the Field Merchandising team leaves.
• Ensure backroom, storage and cooler areas are left clean, organized, safe and operationally functional.
• Assist with the reflow, reorganization and remerchandising of deli and sales desk areas as directed by approved project plans.
• Move and reposition merchandise, displays, shelving, racks and other approved fixtures to support revised layouts.
• Assist with improving product placement, customer flow, visibility, impulse merchandising and overall presentation in deli and sales desk areas.
• Support merchandising of food, beverage, grab-and-go, impulse and other approved products associated with these areas.
• Install appropriate signage, shelf tags, promotional materials and merchandising communication.
• Work closely with store teams and functional partners to minimize disruption to deli, sales desk and customer operations.
• Remove product from existing fixtures and properly stage merchandise during resets.
• Restock and merchandise products following completion of fixture, cooler and planogram work.
• Identify discontinued, damaged, excess, misplaced or non-planogrammed inventory and follow established disposition procedures.
• Ensure merchandise is properly faced, organized, priced and presented before completing a project.
• Install shelf tags, price labels, promotional signage, displays, endcap materials and other merchandising communication.
• Help ensure promotional and seasonal programs are implemented according to established standards.
• Work collaboratively with store management and team members while minimizing disruption to customers and normal store operations.
• Communicate project progress, execution issues, missing materials, inventory concerns and other barriers to Field Merchandising leadership.
• Assist store teams in understanding new layouts, cooler sets, merchandising standards and organization expectations after a reset.
• Maintain a professional attitude and represent BP/TA appropriately with store employees, customers, vendors and other partners.
• Support other field merchandising and retail execution initiatives as business needs require.

What you'll need

• Ability to regularly lift, carry, push and pull merchandise, fixtures, shelving, equipment and supplies.
• Ability to lift and move heavy objects, including items weighing up to 50 pounds independently, and heavier items with appropriate assistance or equipment.
• Ability to bend, kneel, squat, reach, climb and work at varying heights throughout the workday.
• Ability to safely use ladders and approved material-handling equipment when required.
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods, including the majority of a work shift.
• Ability to perform repetitive lifting, stocking, fixture assembly, cooler resets and merchandising activities.
• Ability to work for reasonable periods in refrigerated cooler environments.
• Ability to work safely in active retail environments that may include customers, deliveries, contractors and ongoing store operations.
• Ability to travel frequently, including weekly and overnight travel, by automobile and commercial airline as business needs require.
• Ability to work at TA locations throughout the United States.
• Maintain scheduling flexibility based on project and store requirements, including early mornings, evenings, overnight work and occasional weekends.
• Ability to read and accurately follow detailed instructions, layouts, diagrams and planograms.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to execution standards.
• Ability to perform physically demanding work safely and consistently.
• Ability to work independently while functioning effectively as part of a traveling team.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adapt quickly when field conditions differ from plans while escalating decisions appropriately.
• Valid driver's license and ability to meet applicable company travel requirements.

Nice to have

• Previous retail, merchandising, store operations, construction/fixture installation, warehouse or related experience.
• Experience completing retail resets or working from planograms and store layouts.
• Experience with cooler resets, inventory organization or convenience/travel center merchandising.

Details

• Location: United States of America, fully remote, with travel to TA locations throughout the United States.
• Travel: up to 100%, including weekly and overnight travel.
• Schedule: 50 hours per week, with early mornings, evenings, overnight work and occasional weekends depending on project needs.
• Employment type: full-time schedule of 50 hours per week; pay is $25 per hour.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this role.