Spirits Sales Consultant - Grandville, United States - Great Lakes Wine and Spirits

Great Lakes Wine and Spirits

Verified Company

Grandville, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Great Lakes Wine & Spirits is a growing statewide company seeking a
Spirits Sales Consultant
for our Retail Chain Division to service multiple accounts in Allegan, Kent, & Ottaway County**.

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Essential Duties & Responsibilities_**The Sales Consultant is a field-based sales role that focuses on selling, servicing, developing and growing the GLWAS portfolio of products within established customer accounts.

This role provides a phenomenal introduction into both sales and the adult beverage industry with one of the strongest portfolios around - coupled with a winning team culture.

Great Lakes Wine & Spirits takes pride within and provides upward mobility into possible off-premise, independent, management roles based upon performance.

Sales Consultants will be responsible for their 'Master Routes' to back-stock shelves, sell programs, straighten and beautify the department, and write the order for upcoming delivery days.

This position also requires the employee to merchandise orders for shelving and displaying on delivery days.

As a Sales Consultant, you will also be responsible for growing total territory volume and revenue while achieving other growth objectives for the company.

Other duties include but not limited to:

Achieve monthly objectives on priority brands, specified programs and qualitative initiatives.
Generate positive business relationships with decision makers in assigned accounts.
Execute assigned headquarters programs from our major customers.
Present prepared, professional, persuasive, factbased, personalized sales presentations
Develop and maintain good product knowledge on relative GLWAS products.
Attend weekly and monthly team meetings to discuss objectives, progress, and outstanding issues.
Demonstrate initiative to grow overall spirits, beverage, and category knowledge.
Demonstrate competency of account 'Standards of Performance' through account conditions
Maintain product so that it is clean, rotated, and saleable.
Post retail pricing in a timely manner, while ensuring accuracy
Ensure pointofsale is accurate, relevant, uptodate, and advantageously placed.
Consistently services accounts as outlined on Master Route
Utilizes surveys, control book, planners, and tracking forms as instructed to execute priorities.
Communicates proactively with customers and management.
Aligns daily activities to the needs and priorities of the company, as directed.
Ensures vehicle is clean, organized, properly stocked with adequate pointofsale.

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Work Environment & Physical Demands_**The Sales Consultant operates in the field with daily travel, driving in all weather conditions. Time is also spent in a professional office environment, using standard office equipment. Work environment will vary based on account stops.

Sales Consulting is also a very active position.

The employee must frequently stand, walk, bend, kneel, crouch, stoop and climb throughout the day while lifting, stacking, moving, and rotating with items, without handles, that weigh up to 50 pounds; push/pull carts with up to 100 pounds of force.

This position is required to operate warehouse equipment and regularly to read, write and communicate in English.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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Work Schedule_**The Sales Consultant is a full-time position with a flexible schedule Monday through Friday.

If the master route is satisfied and stores are adequately serviced, a Sales Consultant is free to set their schedule.

Evening and weekend hours may be required as schedule demands.

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Pay & Benefits_**- $34,000 Base Salary

Monthly Sales Incentives based on performance.

- $500 Monthly Car Allowance

Vacation and Personal Time
Competitive health benefit packages including Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
Eligible for 401k enrollment upon date of hire.

Long (Short)

Term Disability coverage
Voluntary Life Insurance plan

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Required Qualifications_**- Minimum age of 21 years

High School Diploma/GED (Bachelor's degree preferred)
2 years sales experience (preferred)
Basic competency with basic iOS devices
Positive & Entrepreneurial Attitude
A Success-Oriented, Competitive, and Creative Mindset
Desire to learn and implement these learnings.

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Additional Requirements_**- Adhere to the policies and procedures outlined in the employee policy manual and any applicable contracts, signed agreements, and work rules.

Cooperates with all management and staff of GLWAS.
Use alcohol in a responsible manner when related to business activities.
Ability to pass preemployment screenings including a full Background Check, 10Panel Drug Test, Physical Evaluation, and Agility Test
Maintain a safe driving record.
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