Commercial Specialist
Advance Auto Parts · Wheeling, WV · 2 wk ago
Full-time
Responsibilities
- Support CPP-led commercial sales.
- Assist with dispatching and coordination of commercial deliveries from order creation to dispatched for delivery.
- Manage store vehicle fleet maintenance, safety checks, and general vehicle readiness.
- Conduct account stocking visits and Pro Sales flyer drops.
- Perform outbound calls, follow-ups, and basic account touchpoints.
- Perform customer deliveries as needed, following standard driver procedures (pick, stage, deliver, returns, core handling collection of credit accounts, customer relationship building).
- Lead the organization and maintenance in and around the parts department / backroom, staging, and delivery areas.
- Maintain knowledge of product inventory and new arrivals to assist with sales.
- Assist in upselling and cross-selling products to increase average transaction value.
- Lead commercial program when the CPP is not present (i.e., Weekends as business and customer demands require).
- Engage with walk-in customers to understand their needs and recommend appropriate parts or services.
- Assist CPPs and GMs with tasking, special projects or execution initiatives including inventory management.
- Support onboarding and shadowing of new team members.
Skills
Success Factors:
- Friendly communication
- Ability to locate and stock parts
- Safety knowledge and skills
- Operating inventory systems and store equipment
- Parts and automotive system knowledge skills
- Operating POS and Parts lookup systems
- Strong selling skills for commercial customers
- Ability to multi-task and remain organized in a busy environment
- Ability to route store drivers
- Strong vehicle maintenance knowledge
- Maintain MVR certification
Essential Job Skills:
- Ability to work an assortment of days, evenings, and weekends as needed
- Speak and write English (Spanish a plus); communicate effectively and build strong relationships with customers, peers, and management
- Understand and execute instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, parts catalogs, and procedure manuals; ability to write simple correspondence
- Willingness to learn about new products and sales techniques
- Use Microsoft software effectively (Word, Excel required)
- Use basic math accurately: add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Strong organizational skills
- Basic inventory management skills
- Basic dispatching knowledge
- Basic understanding of vehicle maintenance schedules
- Working knowledge of automotive systems, and diagnostic ability to include internal engine, suspension, brakes, electronic, exhaust, etc.
- Successfully complete the Parts Knowledge Assessment
Prior Experience: