Wine Specialist

Job Title: Wine Specialist

Reports To: District Sales Manager- On Premise

FLSA Status: Exempt

Classification: Full-time

Job Summary: The Wine Specialist will support all aspects of the Wine portfolio with the goal of growing Wine brands within Southern Crown Partners and meeting all sales goals and expectations with the On-Premise teams.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Attends all sales segment meetings to provide Wine brand updates, opportunities, feedback, and analysis based on market observations and sales data.
• Perform sales calls daily to educate and grow the awareness of Wine brands on targeted on premise accounts and to sell distribution of existing brands and new products, features, and samplings.
• Responsible for all sales activities in assigned geographic territory including merchandising, rotation, stock.
• Responsible for growth and strengthening retailer relations.
• Presenting authorized decision makers with factual sales data and periodic business reviews.
• Maintaining account rapport, case sales replenishment and growth, quality assurance of products, and follow-up communication.
• Responsible for effective planning and execution of sales promotions.
• Accountable for customer satisfaction.
• Responsible for compliance with the company's Product Freshness Rotation Policy.
• Responsible for partnering and communication with dedicated Service Representative to ensure excellent customer service.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills and maintaining quality standards of products by rotation.
• Ability to solve practical problems.
• Ability to work in a friendly manner as part of a team and to develop effective working relationships with colleagues and customers.
• Ability to accurately add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure.
• Ability to be punctual in meeting route scheduling and pay attention to detail.
• Intermediate computer skills, particularly in Word and Excel.
• Represents SCP’s commitment to excellence through PARTNERS values.
• Possesses a valid driver's license in the state of residence while maintaining a good driving record.

Education/Experience:

• Minimum 1 year of sales experience in beverage distribution or related field.

Physical Requirements:

• Administrative 30%
•  Walking, Bending, Lifting and Twisting 70%

Note: Job descriptions are not intended and should not be constructed to be exhaustive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with a job. They are intended to be accurate reflections of those principal job elements essential for making decisions pertaining to compensation.

Southern Crown Partners is an equal opportunity employer that takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity.