Jobs / Employment

K&L is always looking for bright and motivated people. Due to the rapid growth of our in-store as well as Internet business, we are currently hiring. Benefits (in addition to working within the wine industry) include a medical and 401K plan. Fantastic career opportunities with an established company in a great industry.

Most immediately, we are looking for people to fill the following positions...

Wine Sales Associate

Current openings available in our Redwood City and San Francisco locations

Wine retailer (K&L Wine Merchants - www.KLWines.com) is looking for enthusiastic wine sales professionals. Here is a fantastic opportunity for people serious about sales within the retail wine business. The functions would primarily include selling wine to the public in the store and on the telephone. Advantage will be given to people with background in wine and with computer skills. This is a great career opportunity in an enjoyable industry!

Responsibilities:

• In-Store Wine sales
• Wine sales over the phone
• Wine sales by way of the Internet (via Email correspondence with customers of klwines.com).

Qualifications:

• At least 1-3 years experience in wine industry highly desired.
• Demonstrated ability to interact well with customers, and maintain strong customer relationships.
• Must be a self-starter, as well as a strong team player.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Computer Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Windows, as well as Word and Excel. Proficient with web browser and Email applications. Additional skills highly desired. Position is 40 hours per week. Benefits include medical, dental, 401K.

Employment offer would be contingent upon successfully passing drug test, criminal background screen, and having a clean driving record. Must provide references. Do not call or fax resume. Send it to jobs@klwines.com.

K&L Wine Merchants is recognized as one of the leading independent wine merchants in the United States. Since 1976, we've been selling the world's finest wines to customers throughout the United States by mail order (and on the Web since 1997). Our sales channels include walk-in retail, phone sales, and online commerce. All areas of our business are growing rapidly and the atmosphere is both exciting and challenging. We have stores in Redwood City (about 10 minutes north of Palo Alto), San Francisco, and we're coming to Hollywood. We also sell thousands of different wines to customers across the country through our newsletter and Web site. K&L has been featured in dozens of publications including Time, Money, Forbes ASAP, Smart Money, the Wall Street Journal, and The Wine Spectator.

Contact

Email: jobs@klwines.com

Warehousing and Operations Associate

Current openings available in our Redwood City location

Wine retailer (K&L Wine Merchants - www.KLWines.com) is looking for a Warehouse and Operations Associate. Applicants must be extremely detail-oriented, good with computers, and efficient team players. You will need to be obsessed with ensuring the accuracy of our inventory.

You will be helping other operations and sales staff members by loading inventory transfers (physically and within the computer system) between locations (San Francisco, San Carlos Redwood City and Los Angeles), receiving in new purchases (both physically and within the computer system), labeling products, and doing some customer deliveries (clean driving record is a requirement). In addition, your responsibilities will include managing the order queue of in-store pick ups. These are orders from our customers that are made online and on the phone, for in-store pickup. You will be logging into our computer system, printing out these orders as pick tickets, pulling the order together, processing the credit cards and notifying the customers that the orders are ready for pickup.

We sell thousands of different wines. Many of them are difficult to distinguish from each other. A previous wine background is an advantage, but a willingness to learn everything you can in order to minimize mistakes and be effective in your job is absolutely required. You will need to become an expert at recognizing the minor differences between wine labels, which will be the difference between our sending the correct or incorrect wine to the customer.

Position is 40 hours per week. Benefits include medical, dental, 401K.

Employment offer would be contingent upon successfully passing drug test, criminal background screen, and having a clean driving record. Must provide references.

Contact

Email: jobs@klwines.com