Salesperson/Store Driver Store 9733

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.

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 Driver Responsibilities

• Safely deliver parts to customers as needed
• Pick and stage parts for customer orders
• Pick up returns and cores
• Drop off weekly/monthly sales flyers
• Daily collection of credit accounts

Secondary Responsibilities (Both Roles)

• Maintain store cleanliness including floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, and 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)

Essential Job Skills

• 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

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of successful sales experience in a diverse retail environment (Salesperson)
• Automotive parts experience preferred (Driver)
• Valid driver’s license and fleet safety certification (required for both roles)

Physical Demands

• Predominantly walking or standing
• Frequently required 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 exposure to weather conditions (e.g., installing batteries and wiper blades)
• Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, high/precarious places, toxic/caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, explosives, and vibration
• Moderate noise level