Sales Trainee

Join Red Bull Canada as a Sales Trainee in Grande Prairie, Alberta. As a Sales Trainee, you will manage Red Bull products in assigned distribution accounts, determine current and ongoing product needs, establish and maintain friendly and professional relationships with customers to increase sales and selling space, build and protect the Red Bull brand, and ensure that all Red Bull equipment is clean and in good working order.

Responsibilities include:

• Managing Red Bull products in assigned distribution accounts
• Determining current and ongoing product needs at accounts
• Establishing and maintaining friendly and professional relationships with customers to increase sales and selling space
• Building and protecting the Red Bull brand through proper rotation to ensure fresh product and setting proper brand flow following Red Bull standards
• Ensuring that all Red Bull equipment is clean and in good working order
• Training with senior Account Sales Managers on their routes
• Covering Account Sales Managers' routes when needed
• Evaluating all competitors' activities such as new launches and price reductions and communicating with District Sales Manager
• Meeting monthly key performance indicators (KPIs) focused on sales, distribution, pricing, display, new accounts, and other merchandising components

Physical requirements include:

• Regularly using hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear
• Frequently walking and sitting
• Occasionally standing and stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling
• Regularly lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds as needed
• Specific vision abilities required 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

We are looking for candidates with:

• Preferred prior sales experience, particularly in consumer packaged goods or retail organisations
• 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
• Organisational skills
• Current driver's license with a clean driving record
• Forklift and commercial vehicle operations
• Ability to work flexible shifts
• Fluent in English, additional language skills an advantage