Business Development Manager – Lead Brands Prem

Position: Business Development Manager – Lead Brands On Prem
# Job - Business Development Manager – Lead Brands On Prem Miami,Florida The Salary range for the role in Miami, Florida is from $ 100,800 to $ 168,000 (Annual)
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Job Description
** Job Title
** Business Development Manager – Lead Brands On Prem
** About Diageo
** With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 dedicated people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands.  Join us and you’ll collaborate, explore, and innovate. Challenge and be challenged. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll build brands consumers love.

We value each other and celebrate different perspectives. In our inclusive environment you’ll have the backing needed for new ideas and learn from them. Harness your passion and desire to grow as you make your mark. Let’s unlock a brighter, more exciting future together!
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* About the role:

** The Business Development (BD) Manager is the in-market category & brand guide that leads consumer & trade demand generation for our brands. This role will promote the growth of Diageo brands, along with distributor/broker partners, customers, and consumers. This role is a blend of sales coordination, local marketing execution and category/brand representation - collaborating with our sales teams at Diageo and within our distributor teams.

The role works directly with the relevant Diageo brand and trade marketing personnel to develop and execute winning brand, customer, and portfolio plans tailored for their market. This role is designed to be very visible and active in the market – spending a minimum of 70% of their working time with customers, distributor sales teams, marketing/activation agencies, event and sponsorship promoters, and local influencers.

This role relies heavily for success on effective collaboration with other Diageo sales and marketing teams - to ideate, create, budget for, and enable the operational readiness of their plans, allowing the successful candidates to focus on building an in-market reputation and track record of demand generation that translates into performance measured through sales depletions and share growth.
** Role and Responsibilities*
* • Builds demand for our brands by locating, defining, and completing the most important business/category opportunities in the market consistent with the category and brand plans developed for that market.
• Has a strong, trusted business relationship with the most important customers in their – market. Strengthens that relationship by regularly engaging with those customers to find mutually beneficial opportunities for growth.
• Identifies new opportunities for brands to participate in a market by being close to distributor, agency and customer personnel and validating opportunities through consumer, category & customer insight.
• Closely monitors standard brand performance metrics to ensure efforts are delivering against market/brand/customer expectations – course correcting where necessary – distribution, menu, cross-promotion, share & re-order rates etc.
• Agrees category specific targets, timing and KPI’s for in market sales and agency partners – execution, merchandising, activation efforts, etc.
• Locates potential business opportunities by contacting potential partners – cross promotional opportunities, sponsorship opportunities, media, or local influencer opportunities etc.
• Inputs directly to the development (by brand/trade marketing teams) of local/in market category and channel plans for specific category and constituent brands.
• Leads local category & associated brand education opportunities and coordinates learning plans with Diageo and third-party personnel – including the Diageo Academy learning agenda.
• Protects Diageo by being a guide in our marketing code and living our code of conduct always.
• Helps refine and evolve the business development role by observing and recommending positive enhancements to the role and how it works and how it can better engage with internal and external partners.
** Experience / skills required:*
* • 3
-5 years of sales…