Sales Manager

Job Description

Admiral Beverage believes in investing in its people, business partners, and communities, to continually grow and offer the best products and services in the region. With the strength of a large company combined with a small-town, friendly, family-driven mindset; we are here to grow with you. Admiral offers: competitive wages, a full-scale benefit program including health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) and retirement programs, paid leave and holidays, and much, much more!

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Manages sales activities of organization by performing the following duties personally or through subordinates.

• Maximize sale of all products by implementing established sales and marketing programs to achieve or exceed company objectives.
• Responsible for effective sales efforts for assigned area through supervision, training and evaluating personnel.
• Conducts sales reviews with key customers.
• Ensures quality of product, service, and customer rapport through supervision of personnel and personal auditing in the trade to increase market distribution and sales.
• Ensures effective communication by interfacing with assigned personnel and coworkers to keep updated on competitive activity and market execution.
• Ensures proper care and use of company equipment through weekly inspection of equipment to reduce repair costs.
• Directs the operation of assigned sales department personnel and spending within established budgets through effective communication and supervision to meet the company's financial plan.
• Directs the quality assurance of product through training, guidance, and monitoring of company quality standards and maintaining accurate audit records.
• Confers with warehouse manager and department heads, when appropriate, to ensure coordination with activities of other functions such as production, ordering, sales, records control, and purchasing.
• Ensures maximum product exposure throughout the marketing area with highly visible merchandising, POS, and displays through direction and guidance of assigned management personnel to increase market share and profitability.
• Oversees and directs operations and management staff in the absence of the General Manager.
• Present professional image to customer and marketplace by wearing appropriate business attire and grooming.
• Other duties may be assigned by the immediate supervisor or other supervisor at any time.

• Manages employees who perform sales, merchandising, delivery, and service. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of this unit.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Bachelor's Degree (B.S.) or equivalent; or four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Must meet company driver qualifications.

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and public.

Ability to calculate figures and amounts and apply concepts of algebra.

Must be able to travel 20% of the time.

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Able to perform data entry on computer system by responding to screen prompts using Ten-Key and keyboard data entry procedures.

Administrative and Management, Applies Technology to Tasks, Conflict Management, Decision Making, Financial Management, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Managing Human Resources/Personnel Management, Planning and Evaluating, Problem Solving, Resilience.

• Hands to handle or feel; talk or hear.
• Reach with hands and arms.
• Stand, walk, and sit.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds; occasionally exert force up to 100 pounds.
• Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, adjust focus.

The work environment may expose employee to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

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