Salesperson/Store Driver Store 5247

Advance Auto Parts; Warrior (AL); On-site; USD 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A nationwide auto parts retailer is seeking an entry-level Salesperson to enhance the customer experience through effective selling. Key responsibilities include supporting DIY customers, achieving sales goals, and providing essential services. The ideal candidate should have strong communication skills and some retail experience. Join a team committed to excellent customer service in a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of successful sales experience in a diverse retail environment.
• Experience providing superior customer experiences.
• Ability to work an assortment of days, evenings, and weekends as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent selling experience for DIY customer visits and phone calls.
• Achieve personal sales goal and help store achieve its sales goals.
• Provide DIY services including battery installation and testing.

Skills

Customer relationship building

Basic driving and navigation

Safety knowledge and skills

Friendly communication

Parts and automotive system knowledge

Job description

Salesperson (Entry Level)

Entry level sales position capable of supporting the DIY business and achieving our sales and service objectives.

• Provide excellent selling experience for DIY customer visits and phone calls
• Achieve personal sales goal and help store achieve its sales goals
• Provide DIY services including battery installation, testing, wiper installs, etc.
• Maintain store product and operational standards
• Responsible for inventory processes including truck put away, shoot outs, cycle counts, back stock, etc.

Secondary Responsibilities

• Store cleanliness including floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, parking lot
• General stocking including truck stocking and back stock
• Safely deliver parts to customers as needed

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 skills
• Operating POS and parts lookup systems
• Expert at testing and diagnostic equipment for DIY service

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

Prior Experience

• 2-3 years of successful sales experience in a diverse retail environment, providing superior customer experiences

Store Driver (Entry Level)

Entry level store position capable of supporting delivery of parts to commercial customers.

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

Secondary Responsibilities

• Store cleanliness including 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 (Back stock) and store equipment

Essential Job Skills

• 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

Prior Experience

• Automotive parts experience is preferred
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
• Must have a valid driver's license and be fleet safety certified

Employment Conditions

Physical demands: employee will be walking or standing; may need to talk, hear, use hands and fingers; reach; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally up to 100 pounds. Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus.

Work environment: usual indoor work; occasionally outside and exposed to weather; may be exposed to moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock; explosives; vibration; moderate noise level.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.