Outside Sales Representative - Bakery

BakeMark • Santa Barbara, CA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

BakeMark has been a leader in the baking industry for over 100 years, known for its quality and service to customers, stakeholders, and colleagues. The company attributes its success to its passionate and talented employees who contribute to meeting customer and stakeholder needs. BakeMark is dedicated to the baking industry, fostering strong partnerships internally and with loyal customers, and committed to innovating, manufacturing, and delivering high-performing bakery products and world-class customer service. As a manufacturer and distributor, BakeMark operates 23 branches across the U.S. Sales Representatives are crucial for the company's growth across all market channels, responsible for increasing sales of BakeMark's products and services by implementing company-prescribed approaches, strategies, and tactics.

Requirements

• Must be able to travel in a local territory approximately 90%-100% of the time.
• Overnight travel may be required.
• Experience in sales.
• Understanding of the sales process and dynamics.
• A commitment to excellent customer service.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Unequivocally motivated to win business opportunities and ability to work in a fast paced environment.
• Superb interpersonal skills, including the ability to quickly build rapport with both customers and suppliers.
• Experience using computers for a variety of tasks.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, Outlook, and Internet.
• Must have, and maintain, a valid driver's license.
• Must maintain current auto insurance.
• One-year certificate from college or technical school; two years of hands-on bakery experience; two years of prior route sales experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• Prior Baking Industry experience highly desirable.
• Bilingual a plus!

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the sales execution of the company initiatives to promote BakeMark USA’s strategy of achieving and maintaining the dominant market share position in the baking industry by taking steps necessary to identify and obtain orders for 100% of the supply needs of these customers.
• Other duties as assigned to reach Company goals.

Benefits

• Excellent compensation with lucrative commission opportunities and performance incentives
• Health, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance (Comprehensive healthcare benefits package, with many coverage options at a very low employee cost)
• 401K (generous retirement benefits) with a Company Match.
• Base of no less than $75k/ year to start
• Sales Plan to move to 100% commission within 6 months
• 7 Holidays plus PTO
• Mileage reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees