Route Specialist

CONA Services•Toledo, OH

5d•$25 - $30

About The Position

The Route Specialist covers teammates’ routes during their absences and maintains established route standards, including ordering, delivering, unloading, stocking, merchandising, and rotating products at customer locations. The role provides courteous, professional, compliant, safe, and timely service; handles urgent customer needs; and helps preserve sales and customer commitments. Route assignments may include bulk, conventional, full-service, and cold-bottle disciplines. The Route Specialist may also help train new route sales teammates and assist the Supervisor with territory projects and other tasks as time permits. This is typically a senior role capable of covering any route discipline.

Requirements

Perform job duties promptly with minimal supervision.
Demonstrate dependability, initiative, a professional demeanor, and sound judgment through past job performance.
Work in a fast-paced environment involving continuous lifting.
Repetitively lift up to 50 pounds of product.
Be available to work some weekends and holidays.
Maintain an excellent safety record.
Push and pull manual and powered material-handling equipment, such as pallet jacks and hand trucks, loaded with product for at least 100 yards without assistance.
Read, speak, write, and understand English and perform basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Hold a valid driver’s license for the state of residency and have an excellent driving history reflected on a seven-year Motor Vehicle Report.
Have a Class A Commercial Driver’s License or permit, or the ability to obtain one.
Be able to pass and maintain Department of Transportation physical requirements.

Nice To Haves

Previous route delivery, direct store delivery, product stocking or merchandising, or retail management experience is strongly preferred.
High school diploma or GED.
Retail management or merchandising experience.

Responsibilities

Cover vacation routes while maintaining established route standards, sales opportunities, and customer service.
Order, fill, merchandise, and rotate products on shelves, displays, cold vaults, and cooler equipment according to company standards.
Perform activities specific to bulk, conventional, full-service, and cold-bottle route disciplines.
Assist the Supervisor with training new route sales teammates, focusing on safety, efficiency, and customer service.
Handle urgent customer needs promptly and professionally by partnering with sales, delivery, and customer management teams.
Assist the Supervisor with territory projects, tasks, and other duties as assigned.