Route Sales Representative - Clinton, NC

About the role

Represent the company in the field, selling and delivering products to ensure customers receive high-quality service, meet deadlines, and achieve timely deliveries. The overall goal is to increase sales and profits by:

• Ensuring execution standards on all stores
• Maximizing the use of shelf space to increase sales
• Seeking and securing opportunities for incremental sales
• Using POS systems to drive sales
• Servicing stores according to their sales to eliminate out-of-stocks
• Meeting all sales goals and generating new leads to solicit new business and build the organization’s client base
• Managing inventory and placing orders
• Loading, unloading, and driving products to their appropriate destinations
• Ensuring growth in a profitable way
• Servicing stores and growing routes to split off and create new routes to increase service and sales
• Using discounts intelligently and tactically for customers and jobbers to maximize sales
• Setting up and managing a route to reduce costs through RTM, time management, and educating on good business practices

Responsibilities

• Service stores
• Grow routes to split off and create new routes to increase service and sales
• Use discounts strategically to maximize sales
• Set up and manage routes to reduce costs via RTM, time management, and promoting good business practices

Requirements

• 2 years in Direct Store Delivery (DSD) sales experience
• 1 year of managerial experience (e.g., 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 frequently get in and out of the vehicle

Qualifications

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

About Wise

Wise Foods Inc. is a leading producer of salty snacks with a long heritage. Founded in 1921, Wise is a brand of tradition and authenticity that consumers have come to know and trust over the last century. The company produces iconic snacks including potato chips; cheese-flavored baked and fried corn snacks, tortilla chips, pretzels, popcorn, corn chips, onion rings, and other assorted snacks. Wise markets products under recognizable brand names such as Wise, Cheez Doodles, New York Deli, and Bravos, and also produces private-label products for retailers. Products are distributed using a direct-store-door (DSD) delivery and merchandising system and sold in major grocery retailers, neighborhood markets, urban bodegas, mass, convenience store, 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 largest in the world.