Clubs, Teams & Franchises
Sales Trainee
Entry Level
Gardena, United States
in office
Full time
Commercial & PartnershipsLicensing & MerchandisingBusiness Development
Job description
About the Role
This is a training role designed to prepare the Sales Trainee for the Account Sales Manager role. The position primarily supports sales initiatives and provides route coverage for the Account Sales Manager during vacation, sickness, injury or special projects as needed. The Sales Trainee works with management to maintain customer relationships across sales, merchandising and operations for all large and small format off-premise stores.
Key Responsibilities
- Support sales initiatives and provide route coverage for the Account Sales Manager during vacation, sickness, injury or special projects as needed.
- Work with management to maintain customer relationships across sales, merchandising and operations for large and small format off-premise stores.
- Understand and learn the basics of Red Bull and Red Bull Distribution Company, the brand and its products, and build and protect the brand through proper rotation to ensure fresh product and correct brand flow to Red Bull standards.
- Establish and maintain friendly and professional relationships with customers to increase sales and selling.
- Obtain all tools, including insights, displays, point of sale and pricing, to execute the daily plan.
- Communicate effectively with Account Sales Managers and District Sales Managers on daily priorities and train with Account Sales Managers.
- Cover Account Sales Manager routes as needed.
- Meet daily KPIs focused on sales, distribution, pricing, display, new accounts and merchandising.
- Support in-store execution against the global strategy as measured by Winning vs Competition (WVC) and Perfect Store Audit (PSA).
- Support the team with audits, blitzes, building of displays and merchandising to drive the sales business.
- Carry out other duties as assigned.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Valid Driver's Licence with a clean motor vehicle record and compliance with DOT driving standards.
- Obtainment of a DOT Medical card.
- Must be at least 21 years of age.
- Ability to lift and transport up to 25 pounds of inventory and/or advertising displays.
- English language proficiency.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in customer service and sales is a plus.
- Additional languages are an advantage.
The Application Process
- Upon successful participation in the training programme, the Sales Trainee is eligible to interview for open Account Sales Manager (ASM) roles.
- Upon completion of the programme and certification, if no ASM or otherwise qualified role is available and the Sales Trainee is meeting performance standards, the employee may remain in the Sales Trainee role for up to 12 months or until an ASM or another qualified role becomes available, whichever comes first.
- Once an ASM or another qualified role is available, the certified Sales Trainee must interview for that available role.
- If promotion to the role of Account Sales Manager or another role does not happen prior to the expiration of the 12-month completion period, the Sales Trainee role will be vacated due to end of assignment unless an exception applies.
- A manager may extend the 12-month completion period by an additional 6 months based on continued high performance, no open roles and certification completion.
- is an at-will position, meaning either the Company or the Sales Trainee may terminate the employment relationship at any time, for any reason or no reason at all, with or without cause.
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