Salesperson/Store Driver Store 9570
Advance Auto Parts · Tampa, FL · 3 wk ago
Business DevelopmentFull-time
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 DIY sales and service or parts delivery to commercial customers. Both roles require fleet safety certification and involve maintaining store operations and inventory.
Responsibilities
Salesperson
- 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
- Ensure store cleanliness (floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, parking lot)
- General stocking including truck stocking and back stock
- Safely deliver parts to customers as needed
Store Driver
- 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
- Ensure store cleanliness (floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, parking lot)
- 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 (Salesperson)
- Operating POS and parts lookup systems (Salesperson)
- Expertise with testing and diagnostic equipment for DIY service (Salesperson)
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
- Must have a valid driver’s license and be fleet safety certified
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
Physical Demands
- Predominantly walking or standing
- Must be able to talk, hear, and use hands/fingers to handle or feel
- Reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
- 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, with occasional outdoor tasks (e.g., installing batteries and wiper blades)
- Exposure to various weather conditions, moving mechanical parts, high/precarious places, toxic/caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, explosives, and vibration
- Moderate noise level