Route Sales Professional
Company: Bimbo Bakeries USA
Location: Topeka
Posted on: June 19, 2022
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Job Description:
Have you ever enjoyed Arnold -, Brownberry - or Oroweat - bread?
A Thomas' - English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara
Lee -, Entenmann's - or Marinela - cake or donut? If the answer is
yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!
The Route Sales Professional represents Bimbo Bakeries USA and its
brands in the market, merchandising, selling, and delivering fresh
baked products to retail customers, restaurants, and institutions.
Through world class market execution, the Route Sales
Professional's primary focus is to maximize sales to customers
through strong customer relationships, good business practices that
drive profitable sales growth, and provide sales-related service
that exceeds the customer's expectations. Top Reasons to Work at
Bimbo Bakeries USA:
--- - - Great starting pay: $ - -Base pay + commission, paid on a
weekly basis!
--- - - -Union position!
--- - - Excellent benefits package!
--- - - Growing organization & increased demand for products! Key
Job Responsibilities: -
--- - - Lives and promotes the company's safety beliefs and
principles, ensuring safe work practices are being followed by all
and working to eliminate unsafe conditions to drive the achievement
of the safety goal of zero incidents.
--- - - Lives and promotes the Beliefs of the Company, including
respect for people, continuous improvement, exceeding customer and
consumer expectations as well as working to meet the company's
strategic and financial goals. -
--- - - Services customers in accordance with established service
frequency patterns. Establishes and maintains positive customer
relationships with primary contact for each account
--- - - In accordance with Direct Store Delivery Excellence (DSDE)
playbook, executes world-class merchandising, stocking, and proper
ongoing rotation of product on store shelves and displays, ensuring
best quality and freshness of products and ensuring store sales
targets are achieved
--- - - Utilizes Bimbo Bakeries' order management program,
promotional and holiday planning information to make independent
ordering decisions and ensure optimal orders are being placed using
a handheld device. -
--- - - Drives sales through the acquisition of new display space,
incremental displays and through using sales data to establish
other store-level plans that will grow profitable sales
--- - - Introduces new products and services to maximize sales and
shelf space within existing accounts and when soliciting new
customers
--- - - Follows up on new account opportunities and builds
effective customer relationships by properly setting and exceeding
expectations, including ensuring displays and shelves are set in
accordance with agreed upon guidelines and ensuring promotions are
seamlessly executed
--- - - Conducts daily route settlement procedures to account for
all products, invoices, and cash
--- - - Takes and maintains proper inventory counts
--- - - Drives company route truck safely; safely loads and unloads
the truck
--- - - Correctly completes DOT (US Department of Transportation)
logs daily and submits other documentation, paperwork, and deposits
on time
--- - - Other duties as assigned
--- - - The foregoing list of duties is intended to generally
illustrate the types of duties a Route Sales Professional may
perform. The actual duties performed by each Route Sales
Professional, and the amount of time spent on each duty, varies
from day to day and from route to route. Duties and the time
devoted depend on, among other things, the Route Sales
Professional's customers, experience, and skills. Key Behavioral
Competencies: -
--- - - Strong sales aptitude and willing to continuously learn and
develop new skills
--- - - Customer and consumer-focused mindset with ability to build
beneficial, win/win partnerships
--- - - Action-oriented
--- - - Drives results
--- - - Ability to adapt and open to change
--- - - Ability to work independently, analyze situations
accurately, make decisions independently, and take effective
action
--- - - Organized and able to manage work effectively
--- - - Excellent customer service
--- - - Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
--- - - Perform all tasks with a strong safety mindset; alert to
potential safety issues and ability to create safe conditions
Bimbo Bakeries USA is part of Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest
baking company with operations in 32 countries. Bimbo Bakeries USA
("BBUSA") includes BBUSA and its subsidiaries and affiliated
entities, including, but not limited to, Wholesome Harvest Baking,
East Balt, and Acelerada. BBUSA employs 20,000 associates across
the U.S. in bakeries, sales centers, corporate offices and on sales
routes to ensure our consumers have the freshest products to feed
their families at every meal. But our associates come to work for
much more - the chance to feed their own lives through exciting
work that offers the opportunity to make a real difference in their
professional and personal lives every day.Job
Requirements:Education and Work History:
--- - - High School Diploma or GED equivalent preferred. Ideal
candidate will possess: -
--- - - 1-3 years of related experience in DSD (Direct Sales
Distribution)
--- - - A combination of training and experience that results in
demonstrated competency to perform the work may be substituted
--- - - Demonstrated passion to achieve results and work well with
others
--- - - Strong motivation to build customer relationships and
achieve Route Sales Professional and company goals
--- - - Account management skills are a plus Position Requirements:
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--- - - - - Must be 21 years of age or older
--- - - - - A valid driver's license is required
--- - - - - Must be able to obtain and retain a DOT medical
card
--- - - - - Computer skills and proficiency are required
--- - - - - Ability to communicate effectively with customers and
internal partners
--- - - - - Excellent oral communication and interpersonal
skills
--- - - - - Must be able to work in all weather conditions
--- - - - - Must be able to lift 25-50 pounds on a regular basis,
as well as routinely enter and exit a delivery vehicle
--- - - - - Must be able to climb, push/pull, bend, stoop, and
kneel for extended periods as well as perform frequent reaching and
use of fingers
Be a part of a company that is dedicated to protecting our
planet:
Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy
that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and
employees regardless of race, color, religion, disability, gender,
age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital
status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other classification
protected by law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment,
including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation,
reassignment, layoff, discharge, education, training and all other
working conditions. To further the principle of equal employment
opportunity, Bimbo Bakeries USA has developed affirmative action
plans for minorities and women, qualified individuals with
disabilities, and Vietnam-era and special disabled veterans and
other protected veterans.
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