Premium Rum Brand Ambassador
TEAM · Richmond, VA · 6 days ago
Business Development$80k–$85k/yrFull-time
About Us
TEAM is an award-winning experiential marketing agency that develops and executes creative marketing campaigns rooted in strategy, insights, and decades of learning. We partner with the best brands and people to deliver experiences that create inspiration at the point of engagement. Our purpose is to blow people’s minds and steal their hearts with incredible brand experiences, helping our brands do amazing, unprecedented, wildly creative things—creating moments that people never forget and will want to share.
We’re a fun, collaborative, hard-working group with a great office environment that takes care of our employees, ensuring that both in work and in life, you experience something greater.
Responsibilities
- Serve as brand category and mixology expert.
- Strengthen category leadership by obtaining menu placements in influential accounts.
- Align with key local industry events and participate where the opportunity fits our strategy.
- Execute brand promotions, tastings, and trainings as needed throughout your market within accounts, consumer/trade events, and distributor partners.
- Stay informed of customer and consumer trends and share insights.
- Maintain a calendar of activities and promotions and ensure effective communications with distributors and the sales team.
- Provide a bi-weekly market activity report to the Regional Market Manager, including objectives, accomplishments, competitive activities, special projects, and needs.
- Call on key on- and off-premise accounts, develop strong relationships, build brand awareness, and increase volume growth, menu placements, and assist distributor partners in attaining objectives.
- Utilize sales reports to measure brand performance within accounts, contribute to analysis, and provide recommendations for your territory.
- Ride with distributor sales representatives as needed.
- Participate in out-of-market sales blitzes.
- Work closely to maintain top volume accounts and reduce losses.
- Submit weekly required program documents and deliverables in a timely manner.
- Manage assigned budget.
- Conduct quarterly visits to other markets as needed.
Qualifications
- Passionate, self-motivated, creative, and responsible.
- Proactive communicator.
- Comfortable speaking to small groups and being seen as an expert.
- Great with people—from bartenders to distributors to consumers.
- Event management or promotional background is a plus.
- Previous experience in sales preferred.
- Previous experience as a Brand Ambassador preferred.
- Sound financial skills and experience managing a budget.
- Willingness to travel up to 20%.
Pay
$80,000 - $85,000