Full-Time

Inside Sales Representative

Posted on 10/31/2025

Day & Ross

Day & Ross

Cross-border logistics and transportation services

No salary listed

Montréal, QC, Canada

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Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Salesforce
Requirements
  • Minimum of secondary education, with preference of post-secondary education (general stream), or a combination of education and experience.
  • Two (2) years previous Transportation experience is preferred, various roles within transportation would be beneficial.
  • A minimum of two (2) years experience in cold call sales with a proven track record of success and enthusiasm for cold-calling.
  • Must be able to handle rejection and continue towards objectives with resiliency.
  • Must be goal oriented, autonomous and motivated to achieve results regardless of obstacles or circumstance.
  • Exceptional verbal communication skills are essential.
  • Computer skills – accuracy, MS products, Salesforce, AS400, web-based programs.
  • Demonstrated customer relationship skills.
  • Strong conflict resolution skills.
  • Able to work deadlines in a high transactional environment.
  • Ability to champion business needs in collaboration with colleagues.
  • Results focused.
  • Bilingualism (English and French) is required for communication with clients across Canada.
  • Able to work with little supervision.
Responsibilities
  • Aggressive and extensive cold call soliciting for new net accounts.
  • Mining of inactive accounts to uncover opportunity to reactive shipping.
  • Manage day-to-day relationship of assigned customer base by developing a high value-add relationship with key decision maker/buyer.
  • Build a solid pipeline; identify short-term and long-term sales retention expansion of existing business and net new opportunities.
  • Meet and exceed assigned sales goals.
  • Provide prospects/accounts with the benefits, pricing, transit time and any other information needed to secure the business.
  • Proactive thinker with the ability to correctly anticipate and identify customer needs, decisively solve problems, generate new ideas and implement plans to meet customer requirements.
  • Capture of accurate and complete information in Salesforce system
  • Telephone skills and manners are essential to building strong relationships with existing customers in short time frame.
  • Maintain a sales focused mind-set while using tact, courtesy, and diplomacy to gain trust of prospects when cold calling to solicit business.
  • Other related duties as may be required.
Desired Qualifications
  • Two (2) years previous Transportation experience is preferred, various roles within transportation would be beneficial.
  • Preference for post-secondary education (general stream).

Day & Ross provides transportation and logistics services across Canada and the US, handling cross-border freight for a range of clients. It coordinates pickups and manages end-to-end freight moves using technology for real-time visibility, with a Fredericton Business Agility Hub that helps integrate new tech, and a workforce of drivers, owner-operators, and staff. The company differentiates itself through personalized customer service, tight pickup coordination, cross-border capabilities, and technology-driven visibility backed by a large, stable team. Its goal is to deliver dependable, efficient transportation that creates value for customers while supporting community and strong logistics and customer care.

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Headquarters

Hartland, Canada

Founded

1950

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What believers are saying

  • McCain's frozen food distribution network creates captive logistics demand across North America.
  • Automotive sector recovery post-2026 could restore General Motors and tier-one supplier contracts.
  • Business Agility Hub technology investments improve operational efficiency and driver retention long-term.

What critics are saying

  • Lost General Motors contract triggered 149 US layoffs; customer concentration risk remains acute.
  • McCain ownership exposes Day & Ross to frozen food sector contraction and divestiture pressure.
  • Unionized competitors capture displaced drivers; non-union workforce attrition accelerates revenue decline.

What makes Day & Ross unique

  • McCain Foods ownership provides stable capital and global food industry customer relationships.
  • Cross-border LTL/TL capabilities span US and Canada with dedicated automotive logistics expertise.
  • Integrated logistics suite includes freight, dedicated services, supply chain, and e-commerce solutions.

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Mar 30th, 2026
Hamilton transportation company to lay off 100 employees.

Hamilton transportation company to lay off 100 employees. By: Eric Schwartzberg | Journal-News Posted 12:09 PM, Mar 30, 2026 HAMILTON, Ohio - A Canadian-based transportation company is laying off 149 employees, the majority of them at its Butler County location. Day & Ross USA, which is based in New Brunswick, will cut 100 jobs from its site at 3560 Symmes Road in Hamilton, effective May 30, the company said in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, filed with the state last Wednesday. At the Butler County facility, the majority of the layoffs will affect drivers (54) and dock workers (36). The remaining positions affected are dispatchers and dock leads (two each), plus administrative assistant, driver manager, inbound dock manager, operations coordinator, operations supervisor and senior operations manager (one each). Thirty-two layoffs will come from the company's facility in Livonia, Michigan, while the remaining cuts will be carried out in Indiana (6), Kentucky (6), Tennessee (3) and West Virginia (2), according to the WARN notice. Day & Ross started in 1950 and was bought by McCain Foods in 1966. It is now owned entirely by McCain, the world's largest manufacturer of frozen french fries and potato products. The company opened its Symmes Road location in 2000 and hired workers who had lost their jobs when the previous company there, Dedicated Logistics Inc., shut down after General Motors chose a different shipping company. Day & Ross has no union, the company said in the notice. Employees who are laid off will not be able to move into other jobs at the company and will not receive severance pay, it said. The company said it will provide information on how employees can access unemployment insurance benefits and available services, including job placement assistance, retraining programs or counseling. Asked in the WARN form what actions the company took to mitigate the impact of the employment loss, Day & Ross said, "Contract negotiation with our customer over calendar year 2025 while customer took business out to bid" and "New contract ultimately awarded elsewhere impacting our current workforce." More local news:

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