Chain Manager

Johnson Brothers•Indianapolis, IN

About The Position

Looking for a rewarding career? Johnson Brothers is a leading family-owned distributor of wine, spirits, and beer, delivering exceptional service since 1953. We proudly represent the world’s top beverage brands and are committed to excellence, innovation, and growth. Johnson Brothers offers exciting opportunities in a variety of areas. Join our passionate team and help shape the future of the beverage industry! Job Description: The Chain Manager is responsible for building relationships with new and existing customers, achieving sales and profit goals, while helping our clients succeed. The Chain Manager develops and executes tactical and strategic business plans that facilitate the implementation of chain management plans. The Chain Manager also provides analytical support to one or more assigned accounts by monitoring syndicated consumer insight data, financial and business research, and account transactional data to uncover sales trends, investigate product demand and optimize merchandising strategies to discover sales opportunities.

Requirements

4-year College Degree (preferred)
District Manager level experience with 2 years of sales experience in a mostly retail environment preferred
Previous wine and spirits experience
Excellent verbal and written communication, project management and analysis skills.
Strong experience completing multiple assignments that are broad in nature, usually requiring originality and ingenuity in a given time period.
Skilled in solving practical problems and dealing with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to build reports for management using multiple system platforms to gather data.
Must be proficient in MS Office and considered an advance user in MS Excel, internet applications and ProSpace at a basic level preferred.
Ability to lead team members to resolve complex issues and mentor others on the team.
Highly skilled in coaching and consultation, development and execution of talent strategies, championing diversity and inclusion.
Strong business acumen, organizational understanding, analytical and critical thinking
Microsoft Office Suite Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook)
Proven success in leading change management initiatives
Candidate must pass criminal background and MVR.

Responsibilities

Manages the allocation of resources and oversees performance to meet business goals through coaching and consultation.
Champion diversity initiatives to support innovation, inclusion, drive engagement, and career development/talent strategies.
Identifies issues affecting stakeholders, identifies the opportunities for process improvement and cost savings, and is able to go beyond problem-solving by asking additional questions.
Provides data analysis and reporting to customers which includes interpreting and disseminating results to customers and helping identify business opportunities.
Directly works with customers to understand their needs, to influence their management practices and creates and makes presentations as needed.
Has detailed knowledge of distribution operations, political issues and operational opportunities.
Is able to think strategically and communicate how specific operational issues may or should impact business relationships.
Sells "Best Practices" concepts, philosophies and innovations to the retailer.
Provides counsel on issues; creates customized business solutions and recommendations.
Supports analytic projects from inception through completion; prioritizes and manages multiple projects.
Uses space planning tools to create and analyze schematics.
Identifies and drives continuous improvement opportunities to streamline processes and improve accuracy and efficiency within operations.
Champions adopting new technologies to better perform job functions and to support the customer base.
Represents the department in cross-functional team-based activities and meetings with internal or external customers.