Sales Development Representative - Sussex County

Breakthru Beverage Group; Delaware; On-site; USD 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual car allowance

Job summary

Breakthru Beverage Group is seeking a Sales Development professional to rotate through multiple territories and support supplier brands in the trade. The role focuses on maximizing sales and may assist Merchandising during peak periods.

Compensation includes an annual salary of $45,000 plus a $3,000 annual car allowance, with typical travel and field duties as described in the responsibilities above. The position offers growth opportunities within a dynamic beverage sales team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent training/experience.
• Minimum 2 years’ sales experience.
• Proficiency with MS Office and presentation software.
• Strong verbal and written communication with diplomacy.
• Ability to multi-task, work independently or in a team.
• Detail-oriented with deadlines.
• Analytical and reporting skills.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

Responsibilities

• Calls on accounts and covers daily routes with an established routing pattern.
• Delivers professional sales presentations to customers and promotes products.
• Maintains product levels by restocking shelves where legal.
• Ensures maximum brand visibility with POS materials.
• Collects payments from accounts and remittance handling.
• Educates account staff with brand training seminars.
• Serves accounts by delivering products and addressing issues.
• Strategizes to achieve sales and merchandising objectives each month.
• Ensures account compliance with surveys and performance goals.
• Attends weekly sales meetings and updates management.

Skills

Communication skills

Multi-tasking

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Teamwork

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Office

Presentation software

Job description

Job Family Group

Sales

Time Type

Full time

Remote Type

Job Family Group

Sales

Position Summary

Job Description 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.

Annual Salary - $45,000

Annual Car Allowance - $3,000

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.