Sales Trainee

Red Bull Gruppe; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sales Trainee to support sales initiatives and maintain customer relationships. In this dynamic role, you will manage product distribution, establish professional relationships, and ensure brand standards are met. This position offers a unique opportunity to grow within a vibrant company culture that values entrepreneurial spirit, freedom, and responsibility. If you are passionate about sales and eager to make an impact, this role is perfect for you. Join a team that is committed to excellence and innovation in the beverage market.

Qualifications

• Preferred prior sales experience, especially in consumer packaged goods.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage RedBull products and maintain customer relationships.
• Evaluate competitors' activities and meet monthly KPIs.

Skills

Sales Experience

Communication Skills

Relationship Building

Mathematical Skills

Organizational Skills

Education

High School Diploma

University or College Experience

Job description

The Sales Trainee (ST) function is to support sales initiatives and provide route coverage for their colleagues during vacation, sick, injury or any special projects as needed. Sales Trainee will work with management to maintain customer relationships between sales, merchandising and operations for all large & small format “off premise” stores. The primary role of the ST is to effectively service all customers in a safe, productive and professional manner to RedBull executional standards. This is a salaried position and will also be eligible for a commission bonus target on top of the base salary, depending on targets being hit.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

1. Manage RedBull products in assigned distribution accounts.
2. Determine current and ongoing product needs at accounts.
3. Establish and maintain friendly and professional relationships with your customers to increase sales and selling space.
4. Build and protect the RedBull brand through proper rotation to ensure fresh product and set proper brand flow following RedBull standards.
5. Ensure that all RedBull equipment is clean and in good working order.
6. Train with senior Account Sales Managers on their routes.
7. Cover Account Sales Managers’ routes when needed.
8. Evaluate all competitors’ activities such as new launches and price reductions and communicate with District Sales Manager.
9. Meet monthly key performance indicators (KPI‘s) focused on the following areas: sales, distribution, pricing, display, new accounts and other merchandising components.

Employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Employee frequently is required to walk and sit. Employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds as needed. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Minimum Requirements

• Preferred prior sales experience; having worked in consumer packaged goods or retail organization is considered an asset.
• Knowledge of the beverage market preferred.
• Additional language skills an advantage.
• High school diploma or equivalent (university or college experience is an asset).
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Outstanding relationship building and people skills.
• Good mathematical skills.
• Organizational skills.
• Current driver’s license with clean driving record.
• Ability to work flexible shifts.
• Travel 40-50%.
• Permanent.

RedBull

Giving wiiings to people and ideas since 1987

In the 1980s Dietrich Mateschitz developed a formula known as the RedBull Energy Drink. This was not only the launch of a completely new product, in fact it was the birth of a totally new product category.

What drives us: Chasing our potential

Since the early days of RedBull, an entrepreneurial mindset has always guided our approach to work and the environment we create:

Meaning

Find your meaning and use your strengths to achieve it! The bigger reason why you work. To contribute and add value to something or someone.

Freedom & Responsibility

Take real responsibility for yourself and your work. To have the freedom to work on something the way you want to.

Mastery

Love life, love work, love to challenge yourself! Turn your talents into strengths to become excellent at what you do.