Route Specialist 5Day NU

CONA Services•Erlanger, KY

About The Position

The Route Specialist covers teammates’ routes during their absences and maintains established route standards, including ordering, delivering, unloading, stocking, and merchandising products at customer locations. The role ensures products are properly stocked, faced, and rotated on shelves, displays, in coolers, and in cold vaults while providing courteous, professional, compliant, safe, and timely service. Route duties may include bulk, conventional, full-service, and cold-bottle disciplines. The Route Specialist may also train new route sales teammates, assist supervisors with training and territory projects, respond to urgent customer needs, and represent the company and its brands.

Requirements

Able to perform job duties with minimal supervision and on a timely basis.
Past job performance must reflect dependability, initiative, a professional demeanor, and sound judgment.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, continuous-lifting environment.
Ability to repetitively lift up to 50 pounds of product.
Availability to work some weekends and holidays.
Excellent safety record.
Ability to push and pull manual and powered material-handling equipment, such as a pallet jack or hand truck, carrying product loads for at least 100 yards without assistance.
Ability to read, speak, write, and understand English and perform basic math, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Valid driver’s license for the state of residency and an excellent driving history reflected on a seven-year Motor Vehicle Report.
Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) or Class A permit, or the ability to obtain one.
Ability 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 competently, maintain established route standards and sales, and provide a high level of customer service.
Order, fill, merchandise, and rotate products on shelves, displays, cold vaults, and cooler equipment according to company standards.
Perform specified activities for route disciplines, including bulk, conventional, full service, and cold bottle.
Assist the Supervisor in training new route sales teammates, focusing on safety, efficiency, and customer service.
Handle urgent customer needs in a timely, consistent, and professional manner by partnering with sales, delivery, and customer management teams.
Assist the supervisor with projects, territory tasks, and other duties as assigned.