MARKET MANAGER - LA REGION (CA)

Company: Prestige Wine Imports Corp.
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Prestige Wine Imports is the exclusive importer of a distinguished and diverse portfolio of high-quality Italian wines sourced from the Italian Dolomites, Tuscany, Puglia, Veneto, and Sicily, to name a few. Headquartered in NYC, we have an available opportunity for an experienced field sales/market managerto join our team in the Western Division with a focus on Long Beach CA to Central Coast, CA. The ideal person will have a genuine interest in wine, a strong sense of ethics and preferably excellent knowledge of both off premise sales and ideally some knowledge of on-premises sales as well.

--- Attract new customers and develop new leads/accounts.

--- Travel throughout the territory and visit customers as needed, multiple account visits with introductions and follow up is required.

--- Manage multiple accounts simultaneously

--- Maximize profitability within the selected sales territory

--- Host Wine seminars to educate and train relevant distributor and on and off premise location staff on the company's products and methods.

--- Assist and support On and Off premise sales aspects, distributor sales reps, sales meetings, new item presentations, work withs, and promotions.

--- Provide management with accurate and timely information necessary to improve business, including but not limited to competitive pricing, promotions, sales trends, new products in the market.

--- Provide reports such as a weekly accomplishment report, market account updates, work-with schedules

Must be familiar with the market overall and preferably have an established working relationships with key accounts including the chain market, on and off premise, as well as distributors.

Goal oriented with a proven track record of achieving sales goals, distribution objectives, increasing case volume, developing relationships.

Experience in managing relationships with distributor sales staff.

Must have at least 2-3 years distributor wine and spirits sales experience within this territory or comparable.

Ability to lift, push and pull 30 pounds on a regular basis

Organizational skills

Persuasive public speaking and presentation skills as well as the ability to close deals.

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