Sales Trainee - Contract

We are seeking a Sales Trainee to support sales initiatives and provide route coverage for our colleagues during vacation, sick leave, injury, or special projects as needed. As a Sales Trainee, you will work with management to maintain customer relationships between sales, merchandising, and operations for all large and small format 'off-premise' stores.

The primary role of the Sales Trainee is to effectively service all customers in a safe, productive, and professional manner to Red Bull executional standards. This is a salaried position and will also be eligible for a commission bonus target on top of the base salary, depending on targets being hit.

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 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.

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.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Fluent in English; additional language skills an advantage.

Travel: 30-40%