Brand Ambassador (Wine Jobs: Sales & Marketing)

  Terravant Wine Company

  Preferred location is in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio or Austin TX, Texas

A state-of-the-art custom wine producer of Private Label & Innovative National wine brands, we are:

• Focus on the development of private label and unique, unprecedented national brands

• The only wine company in this segment having a state-of-the-art, 40k sqr foot, $30mil winery with

• A team of deeply passionate and experienced wine professionals, and

• A full service design group creatively inspired by imagination, and

• Have a full portfolio of compelling brands with outstanding quality wines

Most importantly, our company is a truly exciting and entrepreneurial work environment with the feel of a start-up mentality. If you’re seeking a career path to something new and intriguing (rather than representing just another wine brand for a large corporation), this opportunity is for you.

The Brand Ambassador’s key responsibilities will be to:

• Build relationships with distributor reps to drive sales in the broad market

• Attend monthly distributor meetings and kick off meetings to incentivize our distributors to sell our national brands broad market

• Work the broad market individually and build relationships with local wine stores and shops

• Maintain junior level retailer accounts (working closely with our Director or Sales) and prospect the market for additional accounts

• Meet with buyers and pitch our national brands to junior level retail accounts

• Perform & schedule in-store wine tastings in major food and drug stores

• Conduct store visits to ensure that retailers display point of sale marketing materials 

• Increases customer awareness and in-store sales through customer interaction and selling techniques

• Build relationships with store managers/ wine stewards – be the eyes and ears of the marketplace

• Write tasting & store visit reports that summarize demos conducted & interaction with store managers/ wine stewards

• Provide feedback & photos of all events to Social Media Team to increase awareness of brands via Facebook & Instagram

• Will cover the South Eastern region of the USA (travel mainly focused in TX & FL but may also include occasional travel to GA, LA, MS, AL, SC and NC).

 

The ideal professional that will join our team:

• Has previous sales or marketing experience

• Has wine knowledge or a strong interest in learning about wine

• Possesses  a “Road Warrior” mentality, willingness to travel and a strong "Hands-ON" approach (position requires approximately 85% travel)

• Has an entrepreneurial spirit, positive attitude and enthusiastic about meeting new people & generating consumer excitement about innovative brands

• Is organized, trustworthy and has polished and professional presentation skills

• This is a full-time position with the majority of work on the weekends – days of work are Wednesday-Sunday

• Valid driver’s license and required to be at least 21 years of age

This position reports directly to the Director of Trade Marketing

Preferred location is in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio or Austin TX

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