Market Manager (On-Premise)- Seattle Metro Area

Bacardi • Seattle, WA

1d • $100,000 - $105,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As a Market Manager, you will guide your market to deliver sales goals and objectives within territory and key customer accounts with excellence. You will gain exposure to different elements of the sales and marketing organization to develop and execute customer strategies and business plans. You will also maintain an account list of top influential accounts in your market and deliver KPI goals. You are an inspiring leader and owner of your market putting the customer and consumer at the heart of everything you do to achieve sales goals and objectives leaving a long-lasting impact. You are an important day-to-day face of Bacardi towards the distributors, customers, and agency partners (ambassadors or event staff) in your dedicated territory and will act as the key contact for those customers, driving new business and maintaining sustainable long-lasting relationships.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred or related years of experience.
• 5+ years of sales experiences preferably in the spirits or beverage industry.
• 3+ years of on-premise experience preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the on-premise business and the critical business factors that drive and impact customer’s business decisions.
• Influential communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Confident giving presentations in front of small groups of people including executives, Bacardi Primos, vendors and customers (both internal and external) at all levels of an organization.
• Computer proficient working in MS Office Products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and can use advanced computer functions, including navigating the Internet.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Nice To Haves

• Living a Founder’s mentality, you are a leader and owner of your market passionate about driving business results.
• Highly motivated and passionate individual with desire to drive results.
• Highly organized and dependable, can work equally well with a team or by yourself to reach a collective goal.
• Not afraid to make mistakes and learn from those on your team.
• Adaptable as market conditions and consumer trends change.
• Curious about various cultures, can easily find the commonalities between various consumer groups and thrive on working with diverse groups of people.
• Strong capacity to create a culture of ‘Belonging’, where people feel appreciated for who they are, what they do, and who they can become.
• High levels of self-awareness, are reflective and know yourself well, understanding both your own strengths and weaknesses and your impact on others.
• Deep ability to understand and relate to people and navigate through tough situations to harness and multiply collective performance.
• Demonstrate consistent delivery of results in first-time situations by inspiring teams, exhibiting a presence that builds confidence in yourself and others.
• Can think critically to penetrate complex problems and expand the possibilities by making fresh connections. Think strategically whilst being execution focused and bring creativity to the challenges you’re presented with.
• Deep natural curiosity, desire to experiment and ability to effectively deal with the heat of change. Have a growth and learning mindset: ready to test, stumble, learn and apply from experience.
• Self-motivating and inspiring leader with drive and ambition that is compelling to your team and partners that achieve a collective goal.
• Adaptable and flexible to the changing market conditions as it relates to consumer trends and customer processes, customer availability and business goals.
• Extrovert and can effectively utilize your strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships.
• Exemplify Bacardi’s cultural values and behaviors on how to appropriately interact with customers, distributor partners and internal Bacardi Primos.

Responsibilities

• Deliver key commercial KPIs for your dedicated territory as determined by the Company’s state-level annual operating plan (AOP), working in concert with the State Manager to deliver against a segmented AOP for your channel.
• Act as the day-to-day face representing Bacardi before distributors, customers and consumers in your dedicated territory and will act as the key contact for customers in that territory, driving new business and sustainable relationships.
• Collaborate cross-functionally utilizing Bacardi resources and distributor partnerships to achieve maximize performance and sales efforts by achieving increased volumes while building long lasting business opportunities in your market and account universe.
• Develop and strengthen relationships with key customer accounts to develop customer strategies and plans that translate into “win/win” scenarios through impactful presentations and evaluating return on investments.
• Manage your budget effectively and efficiently by applying thoughtful financial decisions to increase profitability and demonstrating strong financial acumen with an understanding of retail finances, pricing, and logistics.
• Provide market and competitive brand updates to the commercial team to include timely and accurate communication of changing field conditions that may affect volumes as well as staffing changes at distributors and competitors.
• Collaboration and Coordination with Distributor, Advocacy Managers and Brand Marketing.
• Survey market to ensure distribution, menus, brand programs and more are executed to standard.
• Review overall market performance including Rate of Sale drivers, activations, executions.
• Expected Alaska travel is approximately 1–2 trips per year.
• You will be based in Seattle, WA.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards package of compensation, benefits, incentives, allowances, well-being, and much more to meet the needs of themselves and their families.
• Pay for performance, whereby the incentive programs are linked to company and individual performance.
• Competitive Pay Package
• Competitive Holiday/Paid Time Off, plus additional days offered ( i.e., volunteer day, allowing you to give back to the community).
• Retirement/Pension Plan
• Medical, Critical Illness, and Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Best-in-class, family-friendly, and inclusive leave policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree