Driver Trainee (CDL Required)

G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc.•Franklin Furnace, OH

13d•Onsite

About The Position

This position involves being trained to perform various job duties within the sales team and providing coverage for these roles during absences. The role requires delivering, stocking, rotating, and maintaining products at customer locations, maintaining good customer relationships, invoicing customers, collecting payments, and handling alcoholic products. The individual will communicate with retailers and the Pepsi management team regarding pricing, products, and programs, and adhere to all company policies and safety requirements. Responsibilities also include maintaining customer inventory, completing required paperwork (e.g., DOT logs), and maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information. The role requires working the assigned schedule, exhibiting regular attendance, and working overtime as needed.

Requirements

High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)
6-12 months of previous sales experience with a consumer product line and customer relations experience.
Valid Class A Commercial Driver's License
Employee must be insurable to operate a vehicle, as a condition of initial and continued employment.
Knowledge of: stocking, rotating and displaying products; retail sales environment; product line; beverage industry.
Skill in: service in a variety of settings.
Ability to: work quickly and efficiently without direct supervision; solve problems; multi-task; adapt to changing tasks and priorities; read diagrams and maps; communicate effectively with customers, relate to customers and develop good working relationships; be trained on a two and four-wheel hand cart, pallet jack, straddle stacker, hand held computer and printer and other mechanical equipment; drive a combination vehicle, lift heavy product repetitively, accurately count inventory on vehicle; read (e.g. diagrams, maps, planograms) and write.

Responsibilities

Delivers, stocks, rotates, displays and maintains all products at customer locations according to established standards.
Maintains a good working relationship with customers and consumers at customer locations; Territory Account Managers and Territory Delivery Managers at Pepsi; and other internal employees at Pepsi (e.g. warehouse employees, sales equipment employees).
Invoices customers for sales; collects payment (e.g. cash, check).
Involves handling, stocking, and organizing alcoholic products.
Communicates with retailers and Pepsi management team on issues regarding pricing, products, programs and problems that may arise in the store.
Adheres to all company policies, standards and procedures (e.g. OSHA and safety requirements, AIB and Pepsi standards, Federal/State/Local laws); wears all required personal protective equipment.
Maintains customer’s product inventory by delivering the appropriate amount of product needed to satisfy customer’s needs until the next scheduled delivery.
Maintains and completes required paperwork (e.g. DOT logs); maintains confidentiality of product pricing, promotions and other sensitive and confidential information.
Communicates with supervisors and co-workers about retailer situations in order to maintain established customer service standards.
Works assigned schedule, exhibits regular and predictable attendance and works overtime as required meeting workload demands. Performs other related duties as required.