Route Sales Representative - Kinston, NC

Wise Snacks•Kinston, NC

15d•Onsite

About The Position

Wise Snacks is seeking a Route Sales Representative in Kinston, NC. The primary purpose of this role is to represent the company in the field, selling and delivering products to ensure customers receive high-quality service and to meet deadlines and timely deliveries. The overall goal is to increase sales and profits. This role involves ensuring execution standards in all stores, maximizing space utilization to boost sales, seeking opportunities for incremental sales, and demonstrating the proper use of POS systems to drive sales. The representative will ensure stores are serviced according to their sales volume to prevent stockouts, meet all sales goals, generate new leads for new business, and build the organization's client base. Responsibilities also include managing inventory, placing orders, and loading, unloading, and driving products to their destinations, all while ensuring profitable growth. The role involves servicing stores, growing routes to enable splitting and the creation of new routes for increased service and sales, and the intelligent and tactical use of discounts for customers and jobbers to maximize sales. Additionally, the representative will set up and manage routes to reduce costs through RTM (Route to Market) strategies, time management, and educating on good business practices.

Requirements

2 years in DSD (Direct Store Delivery) sales experience
1 year managerial experience (i.e. merchandisers)
Good numerical skills.
Prior supermarket sales experience
Microsoft Office experience.
Valid Driver's license.
Ability to lift 25 pounds on a regular basis.
Ability to get in and out of the vehicle on a regular basis.

Nice To Haves

Prior food or salty snack industry experience.
+3 years managerial experience.
+5 years Customer Service Industry
+5 Years' experience with supermarket channel.

Responsibilities

Ensure Executions Standards on all stores
Maximize the use of space to increase sales
Seek and secure all opportunities for incremental sales
Show the proper use of POS to drive sales
Ensure servicing the stores accordingly to their sales to eliminate Out of Stock
Meet all sales goals and be able to generate new leads to solicit new business and build their organization's client base.
Manage inventory and place orders
Load, unload and drive the products to their appropriate destinations.
Ensure growth in a profitable way.
Service stores
Growth routes in order to split off and have new routes to increase service and sales
Intelligent and tactical use of discounts for customer and jobber to maximize sales
Set up and manage a route to reduce cost: RTM, Time Management, Educate on Good business practices