Leadership Development Program - Sales

Job Description

Breakthru Beverage Group is a family-owned company with over $8.5 billion in annual sales and employs over 10,000 associates. The Sales Leadership Development Program is a highly selective, early career program designed for recent college graduates or seniors graduating by May 2026. This program seeks individuals with outstanding talent, leadership abilities, and a strong drive to succeed.

Responsibilities

• Phase One: Sales Representative

  • Engage directly with customers in the market within a designated territory.
  • Receive product and sales training to manage a specific number of accounts.
  • Utilize the business model focused on established selling rather than cold calling.
  • Demonstrate exceptional sales leadership skills and achieve results.

• Phase Two: Field Sales Manager

  • Enhance leadership abilities and strategic thinking by managing a team of 4-7 Sales Representatives.
  • Identify effective motivational strategies and utilize various tools to manage your team.
  • Achie success through your team and nurture future talent.

• Graduation (Various Opportunities and Paths)

  • Advancement to the next level in a distributor sales or commercial related role, or to a position with a key supplier partner.
  • Example positions include Distributor Business Manager and Distributor Division Sales Manager.

Qualifications

• Senior College Graduate

  • December 2025/June 2026 graduation date.
  • Outstanding leadership capabilities, enthusiasm for sales and sales management.
  • An interest in the alcoholic beverage industry.

• Skills and Abilities

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong collaboration and teamwork skills.
  • Exceptional strategic, creative, and analytical problem-solving abilities.
  • Proficient in identifying issues, gathering data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions.
  • Experience in planning and organizing tasks through effective project management.
  • Effective presentation skills in one-on-one and small group settings.
  • Presentation skills with a proven ability to present information effectively to management groups.

• Physical Demands

  • Regularly extends hands and arms, stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls.
  • Frequently stands, walks, maintains balance, or climbs.
  • Lifts and/or moves up to 50 pounds and frequently lifts and/or moves up to 10 pounds.
  • Requires close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions & Environment

• The role requires the ability to share workspace, commute by car or train, dress in business attire, attend evening meetings.
• Frequent exposure to adverse weather conditions during market visits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Breakthru Beverage Group is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.