Deep Eddy Vodka Market Manager - South Florida

This role is a remote position with an ideal base location in Fort Lauderdale. The position will cover accounts in South Florida.

What The Role Is

The South Florida Market Manager for Heaven Hill Brands (HHB) will orchestrate and execute strategic brand initiatives with distributors and retail accounts - On and Off Premise. The Market Manager will execute local sales and promotion efforts to drive awareness, distribution, and revenue by coordinating, strategizing, and teaming with local distributor personnel. In addition, this position will observe, measure, evaluate, and report new information that potentially impacts HHB's business in the state.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who brings energy, initiative, and drive to the work.

How You Will Spend Your Time?

• Manage, to HHB objectives, sales planning, and priorities at the distributor and hold distributors accountable for results
• Effectively communicate and reinforce HHB brand objectives, time and again, as the most visible and committed supplier representative in the state, at the distributor, and retail
• Bring a professional approach and appreciation for structured sales processes. Adapt to coaching and change
• Provide the distributor sales team with the tools and knowledge necessary to successfully execute HHB brand strategies and sales priorities
• Drive and reinforce HHB’s sales, distribution, and placement standards at training events and retail calls, with every stakeholder
• Measure, report, and review program results with distributor managers and the HHB Regional Manager
• Establish, grow, and maintain relationships with personnel in key retail accounts – On and Off Premise
• Cultivate key relationships with impact performers inside the distributors at all levels
• Strategically and systematically manage territory for maximum coverage results, with frequent and timely contacts with key customers, accounts of influence, and remote distributor personnel
• Manage calendar and time for maximized efficiency and strategy
• Manage compliance with national accounts mandates and opportunities passed along from HHB National Account Teams – On and Off Premise
• Submit monthly market reports to the Regional Manager
• Bring initiative and proactivity to continued learning and development. Utilize internal resources and coaching in addition to self-study and inquiry.
  
  

Who You Are…

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or related discipline, or may substitute equivalent years’ work-related experience for educational requirements
• Minimum five (5) plus years of work-related experience in the beverage alcohol industry
• Analytical skills, in particular, gathering data from a wide variety of sources and presenting it in formats suitable for a wide variety of audiences
• Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems
• Good managerial and effective presentation skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  
  

Valued But Not Required Skills And Experience

• Emphasis in Management and/or Marketing
• Advanced computer proficiency
  
  

Physical Requirements

While performing duties of job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle, or feel objects, and use of computer; reach with hands and arms . Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 2 0 pounds.

Benefits

• Paid Vacation
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Health, Dental & Vision eligibility from day one
• FSA/HSA
• 401K match
• EAP
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
  
  

Heaven Hill and its affiliates are committed to fostering a diverse workforce as an Equal Employment Opportunity company. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, natural origin, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.