Route Sales Professional
Company: Bimbo Bakeries
Location: Stamford
Posted on: August 4, 2022
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Job Description:
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!
Bimbo Bakeries USA is part of Grupo Bimbo, the world's largest
baking company with operations in 33 countries. Bimbo Bakeries USA
(BBU) 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.
Position Summary: 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. 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 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 Job Requirements Position Requirements:
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Keywords: Bimbo Bakeries, Stamford , Route Sales Professional, Sales , Stamford, Connecticut
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