The Direct Store Delivery (DSD) Route Salesperson sells food products such as processed meats, cheeses, poultry, and meats to retail food stores, wholesale grocers, restaurants, hotels, or institutions by performing the following duties:

RESPONSIBILITIES: Covers open routes and vacations and assists Route Salesperson.  Compiles lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads, based on information from local management, newspapers, business directories, and other sources.

• Travels through assigned territory in Company route truck to call on regular and prospective customers to solicit and deliver orders - route may have overnight travel 
• Displays or demonstrates product, using samples and emphasizes salable features.
• Quotes prices and credit terms and prepares sales invoices for orders obtained and collects cash or checks for prior sales.
• Delivers products to customer, stocks retail cases and rotates inventory in customers coolers as required.
• Prepares end of day reports of business transactions, places future orders for sales, prepare deposit slips for cash and checks collected, review days sales and informs local management on any unresolved issues or opportunities.
• Maintains daily Department of Transportation reports i.e. Daily Trip Report and Time Logs and provides to local management as required.
• Maintains daily truck inventory and does weekly physical inventory and reports any variations to local management.

Must have high school diploma or GED.  Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write route reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organizations.

The employee is required to have a valid State Drivers or Chauffeurs License and must pass Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) written test plus a D.O.T. physical and drug screening. Local Managers will administer a driving test. Most states require driver to be 21 years of age.