Sales Development Representative

Breakthru Beverage Minnesota Beer, LLC; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Breakthru Beverage Group seeks a Sales Development role to rotate across territories and maximize supplier brands in the trade. Responsibilities include account calls, delivering presentations, inventory maintenance, and ensuring strong brand visibility.

This position may assist Merchandising during peak periods and requires travel across assigned routes. The role emphasizes relationship-building, effective communication, and achieving sales objectives while supporting timely payments and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years’ sales experience.
• Proficient with MS Office and presentation tools.
• Strong verbal and written communication and customer service skills.
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical and reporting skills.
• Sound judgement and problem-solving abilities.
• Valid driver’s license.

Responsibilities

• Calls on accounts and covers daily routes with an efficient routing pattern.
• Delivers professional sales presentations balancing company priorities with customer needs.
• Maintains product levels by inventory checks and restocking shelves where allowed.
• Ensures brand visibility using appropriate point-of-sale materials.
• Collects payments and remittance from accounts where permitted by law.
• Educates account staff through brand training seminars.
• Serves accounts by delivering products and addressing issues or complaints.
• Plans sales and merchandising strategies using pricing and programming information.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Multi-tasking

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Driver's license

Independent / team work

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

MS Office

Presentation software

Job description

Time Type:

Full time

Job Family Group:

Sales

Job Description Summary:

Position Summary:
This position is designed as a sales development role and will rotate through a number of different territories. The primary responsibility for this position will be to fill in open territories as needed in order to maximize the sales of supplier brands to the trade. This position may be asked to assist the Merchandising Department during particularly heavy merchandising periods.

Job Responsibilities:

• Calls on accounts and covers daily routes by creating an established and efficient routing pattern.
• Prepares and delivers professional sales presentations to customers by balancing the company’s priorities and customer’s needs to include selling display ideas, new products, cold box, shelf, back bar placements and resets, drink and wine lists, and promotions.
• Maintains product levels in accounts by taking inventory and restocking shelves (where legal).
• Ensures maximum brand visibility within accounts by using effective and current point of sale materials when appropriate.
• Obtains payments for company by collecting and delivering checks or other remittance from accounts where legally permissible.
• Educates account staff by conducting educational staff training seminars on brands.
• Services accounts by delivering products to customers in extenuating circumstances, handling customer issues and complaints and referring these issues as appropriate to management.
• Strategizes/preplans on how best to achieve sales and merchandising objectives by understanding company pricing and product programming information on a monthly basis and maintaining accurate historical account purchase information.
• Ensures national account compliance where applicable by accurately completing all necessary surveys.
• Understands the account’s buying patterns by reviewing the company pricing and product programming information on a monthly basis and maintains accurate historical account purchase information.
• Attains standards of performance goals by achieving the distribution, volume and activity goals of supplier brands as set by management.
• Manages customer account receivables by timely processing of credits and returns and communicating with accounts on aged receivables.
• Remains informed of company/supplier activities and updates by attending and actively participating in weekly sales meetings.
• Other duties, as assigned by the jobholder’s supervisor, may also be required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field and/or equivalent training and work experience
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in sales
• Basic PC skills using MS Office and other various computer programs including presentation software
• Must be a results-oriented professional with verbal/written communication skills using diplomacy and discretion as well as customer service skills
• Ability to multi-task, work independently and/or within a team, pay attention to detail and meet deadlines
• Analytic and Reporting skills
• Utilize sound judgement and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-volume, team environment
• Have a valid driver’s license

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to hold a Solicitor’s Permit
• Understanding of wine and spirits

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach overhead, squat and bend
• Carrying and lifting 45-65 pounds

Competencies:

• Accountable for results which impact the department.
• Selects best option from a set of defined procedures/ solutions using common sense and experience of similar situations.

This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of this position, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible job responsibilities, tasks and duties. Responsibilities, tasks, and duties of individual jobholders may vary from the above description.

Breakthru Beverage Group is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here . If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call [phone] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.