DSD Relief Associate - Sacramento Metro

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Here at Monarca Food Solutions we are committed to our valued employees, leading innovation, quality, and community. We bring better-for you snacking to consumers with brands dating back nearly a century. We are proud to bring high quality snacking happiness to the hearts and bellies of our consumers daily. We love what we do; we think you will love us too.

If you are an individual who likes to be challenged and make a difference in a fast-paced team-oriented environment, look no further. Come join a company committed to its employees and inspiring wellness in consumers everywhere.

Competitive Benefits offered to employees:

• Low-cost Health, Vision and Dental insurance coverage
• Company paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Company paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match

We are hiring for a DSD Relief Associate in Sacramento, CA. This role will be a Relief Route Sales Representative (Relief Driver) for our DSD team. The relief driver will be responsible for running open routes and the efficient delivery of product to a predetermined customer base and to provide exemplary customer service and promote customer base growth.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Position involves 5am start time and extensive driving.
• Deliver products and to upsell our popular brands/products on open routes.
• Complete service calls, resolve customer problems or complaints. Respond to customer calls in a timely manner.
• Use handheld system to key transactions and manage customer data. Ordering, scanning, and logging backstock using handheld device.
• Manage inventory and balance daily route activities.
• Protect company assets, including collection of equipment and customer payments.
• Check-in with store decision maker, check-in delivery, obtain signatures, collect proof of delivery.
• Using equipment (e. g. carts, pallets, etc.) to unload products and move throughout the store.
• Ensuring backstock reaches the sales floor and organizing/maintaining back-room inventory in proper location.
• Rotating products, removing defective and out-of-date products and process returns and credits with receiver.
• Tidying up shelves and displays, knocking down boxes and disposing of any waste.
• Assembling and disassembling of promotional materials such as signs, banners, and cardboard displays.
• Merchandising store displays to ensure proper inventory, pricing, and date code rotation

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

• High school diploma or equivalent and 1 year of experience preferred. Sales experience strongly preferred.
• Prior DSD/ truck to store sales experience.
• Good verbal communication skills.
• Clean DMV record and insurability.
• Ability to work independently in various setting.
• Basic computer/data entry skills and math abilities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• This position requires the use of special safety precautions and/or equipment, e.g., working around operating machines, working with hazardous chemicals and materials, etc.
• While performing the essential functions of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The work requires some physical exertion such as long periods of standing; walking over slippery surfaces; recurring bending, crouching, stooping, stretching, reaching, or similar activities; recurring lifting of moderately heavy items such as samples and record boxes. This position requires frequent pulling, pushing, carrying, and lifting to 50lbs.

OTHER DUTIES: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.