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Route Sales Professional - US
 Equiliem | |
 United States, Illinois, Lake Zurich | |
 Jul 21, 2025 | |
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Route Reliever
Position Summary: The Route Sales Professional represents BBU in the market, selling and delivering fresh bakedproducts to retail customers, restaurants, and institutions. Through world class marketexecution, the Route Sales Professionals primary focus is to maximize sales to customersthrough strong customer relationships, good business practices that drive profitable salesgrowth, and provide incidental sales-related service that exceeds the customer?s expectations. Key Job Responsibilities (including duties incidental to primary sales duties): Analyze sales data to help drive effective decisions in the market as well as drive brandgrowth with customers through increased sales and the acquisition of new space anddisplays. Establish and maintain effective customer relationships to initiate and maximize sales inretail, restaurant, and institutional customers, ensure client retention by exceedingexpectations with new and current customers. Drive in store excellence by selling displays to drive incremental sales, ensuring racksare set in accordance with customer guidelines, and the seamless execution ofpromotions. Investigate, create and follow through on all growth opportunities including soliciting newcustomers to grow market share on strategic brands by selling and supportingincremental displays and the generation of new leads to solicit new business within theroute territory. Execution of world class merchandising and proper rotation of all products to ensure thebest quality and freshness of our products. Introduces new products and services to maximize sales and shelf space within existingaccounts and when soliciting new customers. Responsible for taking and maintaining proper inventory counts and placing productorders using a hand held device as well as servicing customers in accordance withcustomers? established service frequency patterns. Utilize the order management tools (order management program, promotional andholiday planning information) while making independent ordering decisions to ensureoptimal orders are being placed for each customer to ensure adequate and freshproducts are being sold and delivered. Conduct daily route settlement procedures to account for all products, invoices, andcash. Drives company route truck safely; safely loads and unloads the truck. Correctly completes DOT logs and submits other documentation, paperwork anddeposits on time. Lives and promotes the companys safety beliefs and principles, ensuring safe workpractices are being followed by all and working to eliminate unsafe conditions to drivethe achievement of the safety goal of zero incidents. Lives and promotes the Beliefs of the Company, including respect for people, continuousimprovement, exceeding customer and consumer expectations as well as working tomeet the companys strategic and financial goals. Other duties as assigned. The foregoing list of duties is intended to generally illustrate the types of duties a RouteSales Professional may perform. The actual duties performed by each Route SalesProfessional, and the amount of time spent on each duty, varies from day to day andfrom route to route. Duties and the time devoted to varying duties further vary dependingon, among other things, the Route Sales Professionals customers, experience, skills,manager(s), and personal preferences/motivation. | |