Bacardi Account Manager- East Bay, CA Commercial

You will join a team of dynamic activation managers across the country while being responsible for achieving the organization’s strategic and commercial goals with a selection of our key on-premise accounts and customers. You will have the tools and support to build strong relationships with key stakeholders, develop customer strategies and business plans, create and sell-in compelling promotional programming, and ensure high quality organization and execution within a designated market.

Responsibilities:

Manage and strengthen key relationships within a designated list of on-premise accounts within your territory through a consultative and influential approach.

Track all activities and consistently submit activity reports in a proprietary reporting tool to supervisor including KPI progress, account visits, trainings, accomplishments, competitive activities, special projects.

Participate in overall market commercial planning which may include weekly and monthly team meetings.

Efficiently manage T&E Budget as well as the monthly activation budget.

Responsible for executing activities to drive sales, ongoing promotional activations and training bar staff on our portfolio of products.

Lead meetings with key off-premise accounts within the assigned area to develop strong working relationships. Present Bacardi brands and work toward achieving increased volumes while building long term business opportunities.

Responsible for sales objectives, including basic account management, new distribution, drink features and program development & execution.

Deliver year-over-year growth within account list while meeting monthly KPI’s within your account universe.

Be visible at key local events and participate where the opportunity fits our strategy, including the execution of national initiatives in the local market.

Actively participate in promotions and events, which often occur in the evenings or on weekends.

Stay informed of customer and consumer trends and develop programs to capitalize on such trends.

Provide market and competitive brand updates to supervisor to include timely and accurate communication of changing field conditions that may affect volumes as well as staffing changes at distributors and competitors.

The skills and experience needed to create your legacy:

You will have 2+ years of experience working in the Spirits and/or Beverage industry, preferably in the on-premise.

You are a passionate and influential relationship manager that positions the consumer at the heart of all activities first to achieve results.

You are an influential communicator with strong interpersonal skills. You will have opportunities to display excellent written and verbal communication skills while also being relaxed giving presentations in front of small groups of people including executives, employees, vendors and customers (both internal and external) at all levels of an organization.

By living a Founder’s mentality, you are well organized, an independent thinker, like to multitask and are confident in your ability to conduct yourself in an ethical and professional manner consistent with our company values.

Your ability to analyze available information for the purposes of preparing reports, coordinating efforts and solving problems will also be required to be successful in this position.

Your ability to effectively manage your time and prioritize goals and opportunities.

You are computer proficient working in MS Office Products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and can use advanced computer functions, including navigating the Internet.

You are a highly motivated and have a competitive spirit and want to be on a winning team.

You’re highly organized, can work equally well with a team or by yourself to reach a collective goal.

You are not afraid to make mistakes and learn from those on your team.

You are adaptable as market conditions and consumer trends change.

You are curious about various cultures, can easily find the commonalities between various consumer groups and thrive on working with diverse groups of people.

The base salary range listed for this position is $77,938- $93,429 and the salary within the range will be…