Salesperson/Store Driver Store 5740

Advance Auto Parts; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 16,531 - 24,796; Part time

Job summary

A leading automotive parts retailer is seeking an entry-level Salesperson and Store Driver in Greenville, SC. This dual role includes providing excellent customer service, delivering parts, and maintaining store standards. Candidates should have strong communication skills and a valid driver's license. The position can be part-time or full-time, offering competitive hours and benefits.

Qualifications

• Speak and write English effectively; Spanish a plus.
• Read and interpret safety and maintenance documents.
• Use basic math accurately in all units of measure.
• Willing to work various shifts including evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Provide an excellent selling experience for customers.
• Safely deliver parts to customers as needed.
• Maintain store cleanliness and perform general stocking.
• Achieve personal and store sales goals.

Skills

Basic driving and navigation ability

Friendly communication skills

Parts and automotive system knowledge

Operating inventory systems

Safety knowledge and skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

POS system

Delivery board system

Job description

Job Overview

Advance Auto Parts is seeking an entry‑level Salesperson and Store Driver to support our DIY business and deliver parts to commercial customers. The role can be part‑time or full‑time. A fleet safety certification is preferred.

Primary Responsibilities – Salesperson

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

Secondary Responsibilities – Salesperson

• Ensure store cleanliness including floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, and parking lot.
• Perform general stocking including truck stocking and back‑stock.
• Safely deliver parts to customers as needed.

Success Factors – Salesperson

• Basic driving and navigation ability.
• Ability to use delivery board system.
• Friendly communication skills.
• 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 in testing and diagnostic equipment for DIY service.

Essential Job Skills – Salesperson

• 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 – Salesperson

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

Primary Responsibilities – Store Driver

• 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 Driver

• Ensure store cleanliness including floors, bathrooms, facing, dusting, and parking lot.
• Perform general stocking including truck stocking and back‑stock.

Success Factors – Store Driver

• Basic driving and navigation ability.
• Ability to use delivery board system.
• Friendly communication skills.
• Ability to locate and stock parts.
• Safety knowledge and skills.
• Operating inventory systems (back‑stock) and store equipment.

Essential Job Skills – Store Driver

• 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 – Store Driver

• Automotive parts experience preferred.
• Certificates, licenses, registrations.
• Must have a valid driver’s license and be fleet safety certified.

Physical Demands

The employee will predominantly be walking or standing, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally up to 100 pounds. The employee must be able to talk and hear, use hands and fingers to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The employee is usually working inside, but may occasionally be outside and exposed to various weather conditions while performing tasks such as installing batteries and wiper blades. The employee may also be exposed to moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, explosives, and vibration. The noise level is usually moderate.

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