Salesperson/Store Driver Store 8516

This posting combines two roles: Salesperson and Store Driver. Both positions can be part-time or full-time.

About the Role

Entry-level positions supporting either the DIY business or commercial parts delivery. Both roles require basic automotive and parts knowledge, store system familiarity, and the ability to maintain store inventory and operational standards.

Salesperson Responsibilities

• Provide excellent selling experience for DIY customer visits and phone calls
• Achieve personal and store sales goals
• Provide DIY services including battery installation, testing, and wiper installs
• Maintain store product and operational standards
• Manage inventory processes including truck put away, shoot outs, cycle counts, and back stock
• Store cleanliness including floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, and parking lot maintenance
• General stocking including truck stocking and back stock
• Safely deliver parts to customers as needed

Store Driver Responsibilities

• Safely deliver parts to commercial customers
• Pick and stage parts for customer orders
• Pick up returns and cores
• Drop off weekly/monthly sales flyers
• Daily collection of credit accounts
• Store cleanliness including floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, and parking lot maintenance
• General stocking including truck stocking and back stock

Success Factors

• Basic driving and navigation ability
• Ability to use delivery board system
• Friendly communication
• Ability to locate and stock parts
• Safety knowledge and skills
• Operating inventory systems and store equipment
• Parts and automotive system knowledge
• Operating POS and parts lookup systems
• Expertise with testing and diagnostic equipment for DIY service

Qualifications

• Speak and write English (Spanish a plus); communicate effectively and build strong relationships with customers, peers, and management
• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, parts catalogs, and procedure manuals
• Use basic math accurately: add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to work an assortment of days, evenings, and weekends as needed

Preferred Experience

• Salesperson: 2-3 years of successful sales experience in a diverse retail environment, providing superior customer experiences
• Store Driver: Automotive parts experience preferred

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Must have a valid driver's license
• Fleet safety certification preferred for Salesperson, required for Store Driver

Physical Demands

• Predominantly walking or standing
• Talking, hearing, and using hands and fingers to handle or feel
• Reaching with hands and arms; climbing or balancing; stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Specific vision abilities: close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus

Work Environment

• Primarily indoors, occasionally outdoors exposed to various weather conditions (e.g., installing batteries and wiper blades)
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, explosives, and vibration
• Moderate noise level