Regional Manager

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Regional Manager overseeing Heaven Hill’s Kentucky distributor sales, pricing, and brand execution. Managing retail accounts, distributor teams, budgets, and new product launches.

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee the execution of Heaven Hill’s strategic initiatives through management of its distributor in the Kentucky market
  • Ensure the distributor adheres to brand policies, company objectives are met, and promotional activity takes place
  • Manage market depletions, pricing, and brand programming within the distributor network
  • Direct distributor selling activities to achieve sales, distribution, and merchandising goals
  • Manage the development and implementation of local merchandising programs and ongoing performance evaluation
  • Maintain consistent engagement with direct reports to maximize career development
  • Cultivate professional working relationships with key retail accounts to ensure proper brand distribution, promotion, and shelf management
  • Manage T&E expenses and local market budgets
  • Negotiate pricing with distributor management
  • Educate distributor sales staff
  • Observe competitive market activity and evaluate distributor execution against company initiatives
  • Maintain high visibility at the distributor office and meet with sales representatives and management
  • Execute product seminars at accounts and with the distributor sales team
  • Provide National Account mandate compliance and pricing requests in a timely fashion
  • Monitor customer and consumer trends
  • Provide monthly market activity reports to the Divisional Manager
  • Launch new products to achieve volume and distribution objectives
  • Provide feedback on marketing and sales initiatives
  • Maintain accurate distributor profiles, organizational structures, and competitive brand alignments
  • Stay informed about laws, regulations, and policies governing the market and inform management of changes

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Management, Marketing or related field
  • Minimum five (5) years’ sales experience in spirits or wine industry
  • Minimum five (5) years’ people management experience
  • Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services, including marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems
  • Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services
  • Excellent critical thinking skills, using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
  • Analytical skills, in particular gathering data from a wide variety of sources, and presenting it in formats suitable for a wide variety of audiences
  • Effective managerial and presentation skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Must be customer-centric and have effective negotiation and business development skills
  • Proficient using Microsoft Office including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Proficient with distributor databases for communication and analytics of the business
  • Valid Driver’s License

Benefits:

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