Route Sales Representative - Kinston, NC
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. This role requires meeting deadlines and timely deliveries with the overall goal of increasing sales and profits. You will ensure execution standards are met in all stores, maximize the use of space to increase sales, seek and secure opportunities for incremental sales, and demonstrate the proper use of POS to drive sales. You will also ensure stores are serviced according to their sales volume to eliminate out-of-stock situations, meet all sales goals, generate new leads to solicit new business, and build the organization's client base. Responsibilities include managing inventory, placing orders, loading, unloading, and driving products to their appropriate destinations, ensuring profitable growth, servicing stores, growing routes to split off new routes for increased service and sales, intelligently and tactically using discounts for customers and jobbers to maximize sales, and setting up and managing routes to reduce costs through RTM and time management, as well as 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
