Route Sales Representative - Cleveland, OH

Location: Cleveland, OH

About the Role

The Route Sales Representative will represent Wise Snacks in the field, selling and delivering products while ensuring high‑quality service, meeting deadlines, and driving sales and profit growth.

• Ensure Execution Standards on all stores
• Maximize the use of space to increase sales
• Seek and secure all opportunities for incremental sales
• Demonstrate proper use of POS to drive sales
• Service stores according to their sales levels to eliminate out‑of‑stock situations
• Meet all sales goals and generate new leads to solicit new business and expand the client base
• Manage inventory and place orders
• Load, unload, and drive products to their appropriate destinations
• Ensure profitable growth and service stores effectively
• Grow routes, split off new routes, and increase service and sales coverage
• Use discounts intelligently and tactically for customers and jobbers to maximize sales
• Set up and manage a route to reduce cost through RTM, time management, and education on good business practices
• Meet deadlines and ensure timely deliveries

Requirements

• 2 years of Direct Store Delivery (DSD) sales experience
• 1 year of managerial experience (e.g., overseeing merchandisers)
• Good numerical skills
• Prior supermarket sales experience
• Microsoft Office experience
• Valid driver’s license
• Ability to lift 25 pounds regularly
• Ability to get in and out of a vehicle regularly

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in the food or salty‑snack industry
• 3+ years of managerial experience
• 5+ years in customer service
• 5+ years of experience with the supermarket channel

About Wise Foods

Wise Foods Inc. is a leading producer of salty snacks with a heritage dating back to 1921. The company offers a portfolio that includes potato chips, cheese‑flavored baked and fried corn snacks, tortilla chips, pretzels, popcorn, corn chips, onion rings, and other assorted snacks. Brands such as Wise, Cheez Doodles, New York Deli, and Bravos are marketed under recognizable names, and Wise also produces private‑label products for retailers. Distribution is handled through a direct‑store‑door (DSD) delivery and merchandising system across grocery retailers, neighborhood markets, urban bodegas, mass, convenience, drug, food‑service, and club channels. Wise Foods is fully owned by Arca Continental, the second‑largest Coca‑Cola bottler in Latin America and one of the world’s largest.