Route Sales Representative Trainee - Food Sales Associate at Bismarck

Job Description

If you are a personable and self-motivated individual who is looking for a rewarding sales career in a fast-paced, people-oriented environment, join the Schwan’s team today! We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven person to serve as a Route Sales Representative Trainee. In your role as a Route Sales Representative Trainee, you will learn how to be a Route Sales Representative, whose job is to deliver a full range of high-quality frozen foods to families in residential homes as well as to businesses, group stops and senior centers and to develop new business by adding new customers. Since you will train for a commission-enhanced position, you will ultimately increase your income every time you add a new customer to your route.

 

Route Sales Representative Trainee – Food Sales Associate

 

Job Responsibilities

 

As a Route Sales Representative Trainee, you will develop your skills to eventually be given a route of your own as a full Route Sales Representative. In your role as a Route Sales Representative Trainee, you will work closely with your manager who will train you and help you to develop your knowledge of our products and sales techniques.

 

Your specific duties as a Route Sales Representative Trainee will include:

 

• Filling in for Route Sales Representatives who are out sick or on vacation
• Riding along with your manager on route deliveries
• Building new business via canvassing
• Becoming familiar and comfortable with operating a Schwan’s truck
• Making scheduled delivery rounds on time and with an eye toward sales and customer service
• Ensuring before leaving on your route that all delivery items are on truck, including a supply of daily and weekly focus items
• Treating all customers in a friendly, courteous and professional manner
• Offering customers suggested daily and weekly focus items as well as seasonal items
• Leaving customers with a dated sticker to remind them of when your next visit will be
• Entering delivery confirmations, new customer info, upselling info and preorders into handheld device
• Observing and complying with all Department of Transportation regulations
• Performing all duties with a commitment to safety
• Assisting at fundraising events as needed
• Covering routes in other locations as needed

 

Route Sales Representative Trainee – Food Sales Associate

 

Job Requirements

As a Route Sales Representative Trainee you must have the desire and motivation for financial success and career advancement. You must also be able to manage yourself since you will be working on your own approximately 80% of the time once your training is completed. A competitive nature, a strong work ethic and the ability to find and develop your own business are vital for your role as a Route Sales Representative Trainee. You must also have exceptional conversational and interpersonal skills with which you can establish rapport and build an established and loyal customer base. A love of food will also be an asset for you as a Route Sales Representative Trainee.

 

Specific qualifications for the Route Sales Representative Trainee position include:

 

• High school degree or equivalent; Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree or military experience are a big plus
• No experience needed, but sales and customer service experience are both a plus
• Valid driver’s license and a clean driving record
• Passing a background check and an MVR check
• Qualifying for and maintaining a valid Department of Transportation medical card
• Willing to work outdoors
• Computer skills preferred
• Must be at least 21 years of age

 

Route Sales Representative Trainee – Food Sales Associate

Benefits

As a Route Sales Representative Trainee, you will be selling a top-quality product under a brand name that is widely known and respected. There is also no income cap on your earnings once you complete your training and are given a route of your own, so every new customer you add will be money in your pocket. We also have a fun and supportive company culture in which you will find it easy to get your ideas heard. Your training as a Route Sales Representative Trainee will consist of 4 weeks of one-on-one product knowledge and sales instruction as well as online training through our Infinex site. Thereafter, your training will consist of ride-alongs with experienced Schwan’s employees, equipment instruction and so forth. Once you have been given a route as a full-fledged Route Sales Representative, you will have virtually unlimited potential to build your customer base and increase your income and you will also eventually have opportunities for advancement to territory sales leadership roles, depot management positions, etc. We value your hard work and professional dedication as a Route Sales Representative Trainee and will reward you with a competitive compensation package that includes generous base-plus-commission pay as well as a benefits package.

 

Your benefits as a Route Sales Representative Trainee will include:

 

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Short/long-term disability insurance
• 401(k)
• New-customer incentives
• Vacation program
• Combined 40% Schwan’s product discount
• Other corporate discounts via the company
• Shoe/boot reimbursement (after 6 months of employment)

 

Route Sales Representative Trainee – Food Sales Associate

 

Turn your sales talents into a fun and rewarding new career! Apply now! 

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Country: USA, State: North Dakota, City: Bismarck, Company: Schwan's Home Service, Inc..