National Wine Sales Representative
(Wine Jobs:
Sales & Marketing)
Full Time
East Coast,
New York
Laureate Imports Company was established in 1979 as a subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Trading Company.Its original mission was to generate counter-trade benefits for The Coca-Cola Company in several European Countries where Coca-Cola was expanding business. Laureate imported wines to the United States Market and portions of the hard currency generated were used in the host countries to buy ingredients to further the soft drink business there.
In 1991, Coca-Cola sold Laureate Imports Company to a major wine supplier at that time in Slovenia named Slovenijavino. In 2000, Slovenijavino’s trademarked wines were acquired by the very well known and highly regarded winery, Klet Brda in Dobrovo on the Italian border.
The winery unites 400 families, who have been working together for over fifty years and have turned local wine making into a success story.
Our mission is to capture in our wines the uniqueness of the Brda terroir and use effective marketing to contribute to the development of the region and the prosperity of the local population.
The guiding principle in our day-to-day activities is a deep respect for nature and its cycles, as we believe that superior quality is born in the vineyard.
The Position:
- Calling on accounts (fine dining restaurants, hotels and independent retailers)
- Must be capable of building a territory for new and existing wines independently using your professional relationships.
- Actively looking for new opportunities to expand sales
- Conducting wine tastings, restaurant staff trainings, and other events
- Possibility of promotion
- Conduct distributor sales meetings
- Participate in trade and consumer events
- Ability to travel and flexibility to work evenings and weekends as needed
Qualifications:
- Must have experience calling on accounts
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- 2+ years of distributor wine sales experience
- Basic knowledge of wine with a desire to expand wine education
- Passion for sales and service
- Ability to lift 40 pounds
- Motivated, self starter and able to work independently to achive sales goals
- Excellent customer service skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Computer skills required
- Driver's license, safe driving record, proof of insurance
- Reliable transportation
How To Apply
Spela Zobec
Laureate Imports Company, INC
770-427-1010
[email protected]