Sales Trainee

Redbull; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Bull Distribution Company, Inc. in Fort Wayne, IN is seeking an Account Sales Manager to drive product placement and volume across assigned distribution accounts.

You will identify current and future product needs, while building strong customer relationships to grow sales and shelf space. The role emphasizes proper product rotation, brand protection, and maintaining equipment, with collaboration on route coverage and competitive insights.

Qualifications

• Requires excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Able to build and maintain strong customer relationships to drive sales and shelf presence.
• Strong math and analytical abilities for pricing, promotions, and inventory.
• Excellent organizational and time-management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage Red Bull products in assigned distribution accounts.
• Determine current and ongoing product needs at accounts.
• Establish and maintain friendly and professional relationships with customers to increase sales and space.
• Build and protect the Red Bull brand through proper rotation for fresh product and correct brand flow.
• Ensure all Red Bull equipment is clean and in good working order.
• Train with senior Account Sales Managers on routes; cover routes when needed.
• Evaluate competitors' activities and report to District Sales Manager.
• Meet monthly KPIs for sales, distribution, pricing, display, and merchandising.

Skills

Communication skills

Relationship building

Mathematical skills

Organizational skills

Fluent English

Driving license

Flexibility

Education

High school diploma

College experience asset

Job description

MANAGEMENT

• Manage Red Bull products in assigned distribution accounts.
• Determine current and on going product needs at accounts.
• Establish and maintain friendly and professional relationships with your customers to increase sales and selling space.
• Build and protect the Red Bull brand through proper rotation to ensure fresh product and set proper brand flow following Red Bull standards.
• Ensure that all Red Bull equipment is clean and in good working order.

EXECUTION

• Train with senior Account Sales Managers on their routes.
• Cover Account Sales Managers' routes when needed.
• Evaluate all competitors' activities such as new launches and price reductions and communicate with District Sales Manager.
• Meet monthly key performance indicators (KPI's) focused on the following areas: sales, distribution, pricing, display, new accounts and other merchandising components.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• 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.
• Forklift and commercial vehicle operations.

• 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.
• Forklift and commercial vehicle operations.
• Ability to work flexible shifts.
• Fluent in English, additional language skills an advantage.

Red Bull Distribution Company, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other classification protected by Federal, state, or local law.