Market Development Representative - On-Premise - Brooklyn

Build your career at Sazerac! With almost 400 years of rich history Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent American family-owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Since the 2000s Sazerac has averaged double digit growth every year! Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world including Buffalo Trace Pappy Van Winkle Eagle Rare Blantons Traveller and Sazerac Rye. Additionally Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits including Fireball Svedka Wheatley BuzzBallz Southern Comfort Seagrams V.O. Myerss Goldschlger Parrot Bay 99 Brand and Platinum Vodka.

Were proud of our award-winning culture and distilleries. Our Louisville office has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky four times and our Buffalo Trace Distillery has earned the title of worlds most award-winning distillery through the dedication of our craftsmen for well over 200 years. Whether youre a recent graduate or an experienced professional Sazerac provides extraordinary opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting entrepreneurial industry.

Join us in achieving volume and distribution sales goals for our Brands across Sazeracs diverse spirits portfolio and connect consumers and brands. Imagine being the key partner for vibrant on-premise spots (think lively restaurants and bars)in your assigned territory where each day brings new opportunities to connect consumers with their favorite spark excitement attend engaging events tastings and promotions that showcase our spirits portfolio and create unforgettable consumer experiences.

What Youll Be Doing:

As a Market Development Representative you and your team will play a pivotal role in our success story. The position involves:

• Craft Solutions for Growth: Implement innovative solutions to boost business for assigned accounts ensuring Sazerac brands soar in market share.
• Brand Building: Use consumer and category trends as your toolkit to educate customers solve challenges and skyrocket salesbuilding brands is an art.
• Distribution: Lead distributors to support in-outlet selling and execution.
• Volume Objectives: Help achieve volume objectives for our diverse portfolio.
• Strategic Programs: Implement and execute programs that deliver on distribution merchandising display and retail promotional goals turning plans into results.
• Rapport Building: Develop mutually valuable rapport with assigned customers through understanding their key needs and requirements.
• Communication & Collaboration: Take center stage as the communication lead between key customers wholesalers and our internal dream team.
• KPI Monitoring: Track agreed-upon Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure we consistently reach the goals.

*Job responsibilities may vary by state depending on regulatory requirements for the state.

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• Education: Bachelors degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Experience: Minimum 1 year of sales experience in the alcohol-beverage or CPG (consumer packaged goods) industries. On-premise experience is preferred. New college graduates require a sales/marketing internship or full/part-time sales role (preferably in consumer-packaged goods) and/or sales competition experience.
• Results-Driven: Proven volume objectives and ability to deliver on new points of distribution (PODs) well placements menu placements events and promotions.
• Technical Savvy: Demonstrated success using sales data analytics and tools to drive sales results identify market trends and produce measurable results.
• Mobility: A valid drivers license and ability to travel within an assigned territory is required.
• Schedule: Flexibility to work non-traditional hours including evenings and weekends.
• Location: Candidate must reside in or near the territory.
• Expenses: Ability to personally cover ordinary and essential business expenses that will be promptly reimbursed.
• Compliance: Required to obtain a solicitors permit in any state.

Physical Requirements:

• Standing for an extended period of time
• Ability to pick up and/or move objects up to 35lbs without assistance
• Ascend or descend stairs
• Ability to drive and visit multiple accounts in one day
• Strong communication skills

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A career at Sazerac offers you the opportunity to reach your full potential as part of a creative decisive high-performance team. Sazerac values the needs and wants of our team members and offers inclusive benefits to attract and retain the best talent. Our culture is built upon the values of hard work diligence and personal responsibility.

Sazerac Team Members enjoy:

• Competitive Pay
• Comprehensive Benefits from Day One including medical dental vision disability and life insurance.
• Family Coverage:Options to cover family members including domestic partners.
• 401(k) Plan:Immediate access to a matching 401(k) plan.
• Flexible Time Away:Enjoy paid time off (PTO) holidays and parental leave.
• Mental Health and Wellness:Access to mental health care and wellness incentive programs.
• Educational Support:Benefit from tuition reimbursement and our scholarship program for dependents of Sazerac team members.
• Fun Extras:Enjoy branded apparel fun events and a team member bottle purchase program.
• Training and Development:Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Benefits salary range and programs may vary by role or location. For roles within our commercial team - the Salary range refers to base salary only and does not include car allowance annual bonus fuel or cell phone ask your Talent Acquisition Partner for more information about our total rewards package. Sazerac is committed to equality of opportunity without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin veteran status age gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation genetic information physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status.