Route Sales Representative - Kinston, NC

WISE FOODS, INC; Kinston (NC); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise Foods Inc. is seeking a Route Sales Representative in Kinston, NC. The role focuses on field sales, delivering products, meeting deadlines, and increasing sales and profits. You will ensure store execution standards, optimize shelf space, drive incremental sales, and manage inventory and deliveries.

The ideal candidate has DSD sales experience, some managerial exposure, and strong numerical skills, plus a valid driver’s license. Prior snack industry experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 2 years in DSD (Direct Store Delivery) sales experience.
• 1 year managerial experience (i.e. merchandisers).
• Good numerical skills.
• Prior supermarket sales experience.
• Microsoft Office experience.
• Valid Driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Maximize the use of store space to increase sales.
• Seek and secure opportunities for incremental sales.
• Show the proper use of POS to drive sales.
• Ensure servicing stores to prevent Out of Stock.
• Meet all sales goals and generate new leads.
• Manage inventory and place orders.
• Load, unload and drive products to destinations.
• Set up and manage a route to reduce cost: RTM, Time Management, educate on good business practices.

Skills

DSD sales experience

Numerical skills

Supermarket sales experience

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Location: Kinston, NC

Wise Snacks is seeking a Route Sales Representative. The primary purpose of this role is to represent the company in the field, selling and delivering products. To ensure customers get a high quality service. Being able to meet deadlines and timely deliveries. With an overall goal to increase sales and profits

You’ll ensure Executions Standards on all stores

• Maximize the use of space to increase sales
• Seek and secure all opportunities for incremental sales
• Show the proper use of POS to drive sales
• Ensure servicing the stores accordingly to their sales to eliminate Out of Stock
• Meet all sales goals and be able to generate new leads to solicit new business and build their organization's client base.
• Manage inventory and place orders
• Load, unload and drive the products to their appropriate destinations.

You’ll ensure growth in a profitable way.

• Service stores
• Growth routes in order to split off and have new routes to increase service and sales
• Intelligent and tactical use of discounts for customer and jobber to maximize sales
• Set up and manage a route to reduce cost: RTM, Time Management, Educate on Good business practices

Education & Experience:

Required:

• 2 years in DSD (Direct Store Delivery) sales experience
• 1 year managerial experience (i.e. 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 get in and out of the vehicle on a regular basis.

Preferred:

• Prior food or salty snack industry experience.
• +3 years managerial experience.
• +5 years Customer Service Industry
• +5 Years' experience with supermarket channel.

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 100 years. Since our inception, our iconic brand has symbolized great tasting snacks for many generations of consumers including potato chips; cheese flavored baked and fried corn snacks, tortilla chips, pretzels, popcorn, corn chips, onion rings and other assorted snacks. We market our products under some of the most recognizable brand names in the salty snack industry, including Wise, Cheez Doodles, New York Deli and Bravos. We also produce private label products for a number of retailers. Products are distributed using a direct-store-door ("DSD") delivery and merchandising system and sold in major grocery retailers, neighborhood markets and urban bodegas, as well as established retailers in the 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. We invite you to explore growing your career with Wise!

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