Description
We are looking for a Sales Trainee to join our team in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 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:
- Manage Red Bull products in assigned distribution accounts
- Determine current and ongoing product needs at accounts
- Establish and maintain friendly and professional relationships with 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
- 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 (KPIs) focused on 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
Requirements:
- Preferred prior sales experience; having worked in consumer packaged goods or retail organisation 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
- Organisational 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