Route Sales Representative (Corpus Christi, TX)

Overview

The responsibilities of a Route Sales Representative include selling and delivering products to clients using company vehicles, loading from the warehouse and unloading at their delivery stops as needed. This role requires you to develop new leads in the field, monitor customer feedback, and handle problems experienced by clients related to the products in a friendly and efficient manner. Other job duties include ensuring on-time delivery, making sure the orders are correct, and communicating throughout all aspects of the transaction, and offering support when issues arise. As a route sales representative, you are expected to meet sales goals and promote overall route growth as well.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive equipment in a professional and safe manner at all times
• Deliver products as invoiced to specified licensed retailer

• Builds strong relationships with customers and delivery personnel
• Addresses customer needs in a timely manner

• Check-in invoiced orders with customers in a friendly, courteous manner

• Increase consumer awareness of brands through proactive shelf management practices to include presentations for additional space, location, flow and organization of products
• Manage quality of all Company products to ensure that only fresh and damage free product is available for sale and consumption.

• Collect and return all payments as required
• Account for all invoices as merchandise delivered and merchandise returned
• Complete appropriate paperwork throughout the delivery process in a timely fashion
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before customers or employees of the organization
• Ensure truck check-in procedures are followed daily
• Ensure truck service and safety issues are reported daily
• Attend monthly safety meeting
• Attend required safety courses and other classes as needed
• Report any local, state or federal moving violations to management
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency plus 2 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• One year of driving experience
• Must be 21 years of age
• Valid State Driver’s License

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to navigate the assigned driving area in an efficient manner
• Customer service oriented, friendly, helpful, and have a professional disposition
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Knowledge of marketplace experience, developments and trends related to the industry; ability to use this information in support of organizational goals

Physical Demands

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include occasional to rare amount of time include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 45 lbs

Glazer's Beer & Beverage provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

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Please note that job application deadlines will vary by position. The ability to enter and submit an application in Ultipro will not guarantee that the position is still open and that your application will be reviewed and considered. If you have questions regarding a specific job application deadline, please email hr@glazersbeer.com (for internal candidates – contact the hiring manager).

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)