National Wine Sales Director
(Wine Jobs:
Sales & Marketing)
Full Time
New York,
New York
City Winery, a US leader in Urban winemaking, has grown from its original location in New York City to 8 operations in 6 cities (New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Boston and Washington DC) in just 10 years with more aggressive growth to come. Philadelphia in 2019 and a Winery in Montgomery County NY, which will include a centralized wine production facility. City Winery produces and sells approximately 237,000 gallons of wine annually. While the majority of our wine is sold across our 8 locations, City Winery intends to focus 2019 sales efforts towards building a stronger direct to consumer sales business, including growing our wine club memberships. City Winery is looking to add a new National Wine Sales & Marketing Director to lead these national wine sales and marketing initiatives.
The ideal candidate will have both wine Marketing and Sales backgrounds and will be in charge of developing and executing our national direct consumer wine strategy, leveraging a strong supply chain of in-house produced wine. This position will be accountable for all retail wine sales and wine club development and membership growth.
Education and Experience:
- 10+ years of experience marketing and selling wine.
- Practical experience specialized in direct to consumer sales
- Experience in tasting room with a wine club a must
- Experience with cross channel communications (email, mobile, web, social)
- Experience creating marketing collateral, running incentives/promotions, digital marketing targeting, understanding e-commerce performance metrics and optimization.
- Road savvy with the ability to travel our properties
- Proactive, upbeat and highly motivated with excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong planning, organization and time management skills
- Love and knowledge of wine
- Excels in small, fast-paced companies
- Computer proficient (Word, Excel, Google, etc.)
