SUMMARY

Bringing Home Your Work Never Tasted So Good!

Herr Foods Inc. is a privately owned salty snack food manufacturer and distributor based in Nottingham, PA and we think our 1500+ employees are pretty spectacular! We are committed to making our Herr’s family business an enjoyable and profitable place to work.

This position supports DSD route sales employees and branch staffing needs by providing coverage on routes during temporary vacancies such as vacation, personal days, leaves, and/or other business related reasons.

PRIMARY JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Communicates with RSP’s or management team regarding necessary route execution plans to provide for continuous and uninterrupted quality service to customer base, per route assignment.
• Performs route sales duties such as merchandising, selling, building displays, truck organization and inventory management.
• Regards individualized details of each RSP’s preferences whom they are supporting by maintaining truck organization, planogram integrity, and product fulfillment accordingly to route specifications and RSP preferences.
• Provides superior customer service and attends to specific customer requests, per route assignment.

OTHER DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• May conduct new business development activities on an as needed basis.

In addition to the essential functions listed above, the employee is expected to exercise honesty, integrity and respect with all clients and co-workers, preserve confidentially of all business information and data, maintain a professional appearance and demeanor, demonstrate a positive attitude, communicate effectively with co-workers and clients, work with accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail, respect the work environment and keep it as environmentally friendly as possible, and exercise initiative to learn new skills and tasks and to help co-workers when possible.  Reliable attendance and punctuality are also required.  THE EMPLOYEE IS ALSO EXPECTED TO PERFORM OTHER RELATED DUTIES, SPECIAL PROJECTS AND FUNCTIONS AS REQUIRED FROM TIME TO TIME.

Required Skills Required Experience

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma or GED and six months to one year of demonstrated success in a route sales position.
• Possess a clean driving record.
• Courteous with customer service orientation and demonstrated listening skills.
• Understands and embraces value of safety.
• Professionally and safely operate step-van delivery truck, company van or personal vehicle.
• Able to understand and speak English. Bi-lingual a plus.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Frequently walking, bending, kneeling, squatting, balancing and lifting and reaching using fine manipulation
• Regularly lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds. Occasionally lifting and/or moving up to 50 pounds.
• Exposed to outside weather elements.

Reasonable accommodations for disability

Any employee, who believes that a reasonable accommodation s required for purposes of federal or state disability law is required to contact Human Resources to begin the interactive exchange process.

HERR FOODS INC.IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F/VETERANS/DISABILITIES

• Proven operations experience within a high volume and fast paced environment
• Excellent leadership, coaching and ability to motivate and development employees.
• Proactive problem solving ability.
• Strong project management ability.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), organizational and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management including excellent customer interaction.
• Proven teambuilding and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate others.
• Effectively handle a heavy workload, prioritizing work and meeting deadlines.
• Background in distribution preferred but not necessary.