# Sales Trainee - Contract

**Company**: Red Bull
**Location**: Scarborough, Ontario
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: $52,250 - $57,750
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Beverage

**Apply**: https://jobs.redbull.com/ca-en/sales-trainee-ref32516c?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b3f39266-82a

## Description

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%

## Skills

### Required
- sales experience
- communication skills
- organisational skills
- mathematical skills
- driver's license

### Nice to have
- prior sales experience
- consumer packaged goods experience
- retail experience
- beverage market knowledge
- additional language skills

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Source: [Apply at jobs.redbull.com](https://jobs.redbull.com/ca-en/sales-trainee-ref32516c?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)
