Lighting Consultant
Location: 5000 Kansas Avenue Kansas City, KS 66106
Work Model: Hybrid
Department: Store Design Equipment Services
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) and the Store Planning and Equipment Services (SDES) department are excited to announce the position for Lighting Consultant. This position reports to the Director or Store Design and Equipment Services (SDES) and supports the broader SDES team. This role provides an opportunity to grow into expanded responsibilities based on performance and demonstrated aptitude while assisting members in meeting their current and future retail and operational lighting needs.
Responsibilities:
- The lighting sales manager is in charge of making lighting purchases on behalf of the AWG members and retail stores.
- Negotiating national accounts with all major lighting manufacturers.
- Assessing and annually reassessing purchasing cost to insure the lowest possible prices to our AWG members.
- Establishing and maintaining manufacturers rebates.
- Creating master standard specifications guidelines based on the current programs as approved by the Director.
- Reviewing specifications standards with lighting engineers and preparing AWG member store plans.
- Estimating, proposing, ordering, acknowledging, tracking, and coordinating of all shipments to AWG stores or warehouse sites.
- Coordinate and direct the activities of your support staff to create the lighting team.
- Review all proposals, purchase orders, order acknowledgments, track and coordinate shipments of light fixtures.
- Monitor project list and critical deadlines.
- Meeting with AWG members to help coordinate their lighting needs, shipments and see approval for orders.
- Traveling 65% of the time, WFH, Remote and Office required
Requirements:
- 3-5 Years lighting sales or purchasing, lighting manufacture or lighting design
- Experience with Lighting Design Standard for retail environments including photometric requirements, lighting programs, Bluebeam and AutoCAD experience.
- Associates degree minimum
- Valid driver's license
- Must pass drug test and background check
Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is the nation's largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets, serving 1,100 member companies and 3,500 locations throughout 33 states from 9 wholesale division support centers. Consolidated sales for AWG in 2025 were $12.2 billion. In addition to its cooperative wholesale operations, the company also operates subsidiary companies that provide certain real estate and supermarket development services, and pharmaceutical products. For more information, visit AWGinc.com.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Paid Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time
- 401(k) with 4% match along with 3 other contributions
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Basic & Supplemental Life and AD&D
- Employee Assistance Program
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Wellness Program
- Yearly Holiday Bonus