Wine Sales Representative
(Wine Jobs:
Sales & Marketing)
Full Time
United States,
Virginia
LOCATION: NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, SOUTHWEST REGIONS.
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.
Tasks:
• Calling on accounts, distributors, 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 grow sales through product development or sales channel expansion
• Conducting wine tastings, restaurant staff training, and other events
• Conduct distributor sales meetings on multiple levels
• Participate in trade and consumer events
• Ability to travel Nationwide and flexibility to work evenings and weekends as needed
• Prepare Price and Promo offers for On and Off premise clients
• Price building from EXW to RSP
• Actively report new market trends and developments to the wine cellar
• Possibility of promotion
Qualifications:
Good knowledge of wine/spirits sales and distribution business / 5 + years
Posses network of established nationwide wine/spirits distributors and accounts
Sales and target driven
Team player
Bachelor's degree preferred
Basic knowledge of wine with a desire to expand wine education
Ability to lift 40 pounds
Motivated self starter and able to work independently to achieve sales goals
Excellent customer service skills
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Computer literate MS Office
Driver's license, safe driving record, proof of insurance
Reliable transportation
How To Apply
Please do not call our office. All communication has to be via email.
