Off-Premise Sales Rep - Relief
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Beer Capitol in Sussex, WI now hiring for a Off-Premise Sales Relief Representative. The Sales Relief Representative establishes and maintains professional sales relationships, sells, and merchandises company products/programs with all accounts within an assigned territory. This role is responsible for working with their manager through a pre-plan process in order to achieve individual and company sales objectives.
Responsibilities:
Makes regularly scheduled sales calls to designated accounts. Makes calls and participates in community and customer events and trainings outside of regular business hours
Secures and expands distribution in assigned account base
Inputs and transmits orders, completes surveys, POS orders and route goal management using eoStar
Keeps up to date on customer credit status and is responsible for money collections on outstanding invoices
Monitors and assists customers with inventory management (product availability, new product placement, stock rotation, seasonal changes, promotions, sales trends)
Introduces and sells new brands and packages
Conducts and tracks supplier surveys
Places and delivers hot shot orders to customer premises
Maintains intermediate knowledge of product portfolio and promotions
Participates actively in sales meetings and on-site trainings
Interacts respectfully and maintains communication with team members intracompany departments (merchandisers and delivery drivers) and suppliers
Develops and maintains positive relationships with on- and/or off-premise accounts; proactively establishes contact and respectfully interacts with customers
Meets and exceeds assigned monthly sales priorities and distribution objectives by exhibiting discipline and resourcefulness
Manages and executes day-to-day activities and priorities based on pre-plans based off of route sales objectives
Tracks weekly progress to plans/goals
Meets with manager regularly to review previous accomplishments and weekly plan/goals
Submits required pre-plans and reports within specified timeframes
Pre-sells special items when directed
Relates and educates customers on products, brands, styles and industry trends
Communicates and maintains pricing and programming information
Monitors competitive pricing and activities, identifies information that would put company at a competitive disadvantage and escalates to manager
Plans and conducts supplier work-withs in defined customer accounts
Executes transactional programming
Off Premise:
Merchandises and stocks product at each account.
Suggests, utilizes and places point of sale materials and builds displays that meets company and supplier guidelines. Maintains understanding and guidelines of supplier marketing standards and use of branding, logos and sponsorships
Maintains an inventory of current POS and coupons in vehicle and applies rebates and coupons to packages and displays
Takes Inventory and reorganizes back stocks, refills cold boxes, shelves, displays and dusts product, as needed
Follows quality assurance standards, monitors product codes and maintains ongoing product rotation on all date sensitive products (beer)
Provides retail customers with directions to beer, wine or spirit products with assistance from store personnel
Works with category management to assist in resets; takes active role in designing reset, develops an intermediate level of knowledge in category management
Acts as a mentor and assists in the training of new merchandisers