Jobs in Castro Valley, CA

About the role

Basemakers is seeking a full-time, outside field sales and merchandising representative for one of our NorCal territories, commuting in routes daily around Oakland, Alameda, Castro Valley, Dublin, Livermore, San Ramon, and Danville. Our field representatives are the heartbeat of the organization. As an independent and highly collaborative role, you will visit around 6-8 grocery stores per day (such as Whole Foods, Sprouts, Safeway, Lucky, & Nob Hill Foods ), using the Basemaker's Way to improve the in-store presence of brands. Working with brand products and grocery store decision-makers, you will leverage relationships and work to become a trusted advisor while increasing brand's sales velocity through problem-solving. As a self-motivated, high-achieving, team-oriented, and coachable person, most importantly, you will operate with the utmost integrity as you represent both brands and Basemakers in the community. Basemakers is seeking a full-time, outside field sales and merchandising representative for one of our NorCal territories, commuting in routes daily around Oakland, Alameda, Castro Valley, Dublin, Livermore, San Ramon, and Danville.  Our field representatives are the heartbeat of the organization. As an independent and highly collaborative role, you will visit around 6-8 grocery stores per day (such as Whole Foods, Sprouts, Safeway, Lucky, & Nob Hill Foods ), using the Basemaker's Way to improve the in-store presence of brands. Working with brand products and grocery store decision-makers, you will leverage relationships and work to become a trusted advisor while increasing brand's sales velocity through problem-solving. As a self-motivated, high-achieving, team-oriented, and coachable person, most importantly, you will operate with the utmost integrity as you represent both brands and Basemakers in the community. Basemakers is seeking a full-time, outside field sales and merchandising representative for one of our NorCal territories, commuting in routes daily around Oakland, Alameda, Castro Valley, Dublin, Livermore, San Ramon, and Danville. As an independent and highly collaborative role, you will visit around 6-8 grocery stores per day (such as Whole Foods, Sprouts, Safeway, Lucky, & Nob Hill Foods ), using the Basemaker's Way to improve the in-store presence of brands. As a self-motivated, high-achieving, team-oriented, and coachable person, most importantly, you will operate with the utmost integrity as you represent both brands and Basemakers in the community.

What you'll bring

• You have a positive mindset, are driven to accomplish, have a high degree of emotional intelligence and grit, and are coachable and detail oriented.
• Growth mentality and goals are familiar to you.
• Strong problem solving, analytic, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Experience working in or closely with grocery store operations or the ability to learn nuances of grocery store backgrounds quickly.
• Experience working in "route" sales experience, brand ambassadorship, brand vendor sales, merchandising, general retail, or similar territory sales.
• Passion to represent our Brand Partners, mainly in the natural, organic and specialty food and beverage space.
• Track record of success in a highly self-directed environment.
• Achieve monthly key performance indicators (KPI’s) and metrics set by supervisors.
• Professional demeanor and representation in working with coworkers, distributors, retail representatives and consumers.
• You have a valid license, clean driving record, registration, and auto insurance.
• You are willing to drive many miles per day in your own own vehicle.
• Be willing to transport promotional materials such as POS or signage, etc., and very rarely, minimal product quantities (a trunk or back seat is enough).

Benefits