Role details
Company Description
- The Sales Trainee (ST) function is to support sales initiatives and provide route coverage for their colleagues during vacation, sick, injury or any special projects as needed.
- Sales Trainee will work with management to maintain customer relationships between sales, merchandising and operations for all large & small format "off premise" stores.
- The primary role of the ST is to effectively service all customers in a safe, productive and professional manner to Red Bull executional standards.
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.
Qualifications
- 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.
Additional Information
- The anticipated base salary range for this position is $47,500 - 52,500 .
- The actual base salary for this position may depend on various factors including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, skills, experience and work location.
- At Red Bull, your base pay is only one part of your total compensation package.
- The successful candidate may also be eligible for a discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation (depending on the role), in accordance with the terms of the Company's incentive plan.
- The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- Red Bull Canada is an equal opportunities employer.
- We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.
- We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.
- We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion.