Retail Wine Sales Representative - Nashville, TN
Empire Distributors, Inc. · Nashville, TN · 1 mo ago
On-siteManagementFull-time
Summary
Sells wine, beer, and other products to assigned accounts for wholesale distributor by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Learns and executes the seven basics: distribution, position, display, pricing, point-of-sale, cold box, and rotation in each account.
- Trips through assigned territory daily to call on regular customers to solicit orders, present items for distribution, maintain Company merchandising standards, and handle damages and off-condition product.
- Confers with District Manager or Area Sales Manager to resolve customer problems.
- Investigates and resolves customer problems with deliveries.
- Identifies and responds to customers' needs.
- Maintains frequent and open communication with District Manager, Area Sales Manager, and the Vice President/General Manager.
- Prepares and/or maintains distribution tracking reports, planning and goals, case quotas, and dollar objectives and other administrative tasks as assigned.
- Executes sales plans and maintains accounts according to company standards.
- Tracks progress of goals on a daily basis.
- Participates in supplier work-withs.
- Participates in preparation for Empire/Supplier surveys.
- Continually maintains training and product knowledge.
- Delivers emergency orders when needed.
- Attends General Sales Meetings, Trade shows and Special events.
- Travels to different wine producing regions around the world.
- Conducts business according to local and state laws.
Qualifications
- Associate's degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet software; Microsoft Word; Word Processing software; Explorer Internet software; Sales Portal Order processing systems, Microsoft Outlook and PowerPoint.
Benefits
- Health care
- Retirement benefits
- Paid time off
- Company paid life insurances
- Supplemental Aflac and legal plans