Route Sales Representative - Franklin, VA

Overview

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, ensuring customers receive high-quality service, meeting deadlines and timely deliveries, with an overall goal to increase sales and profits.

• Maximize the use of space to increase sales
• Seek and secure opportunities for incremental sales
• Show the proper use of POS to drive sales
• Ensure servicing stores according to their sales to eliminate out of stock situations
• Meet all sales goals and generate new leads to solicit new business and build the client base
• Manage inventory and place orders
• Load, unload and drive the products to their appropriate destinations
• Ensure growth in a profitable way and service stores
• Grow routes to create new routes, increase service and sales
• Use discounts strategically for customers and jobbers to maximize sales
• Set up and manage a route to reduce costs: RTM, time management, and education on good business practices

• Education & Experience:
• 2 years in Direct Store Delivery (DSD) sales experience
• 1 year managerial experience (e.g., 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

• Prior food or salty snack industry experience
• +3 years managerial experience
• +5 years in the customer service industry
• +5 years of experience with the supermarket channel

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 brands such as Wise, Cheez Doodles, New York Deli and Bravos. We also produce private label products for several 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 mass, convenience, 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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