Job Description

Sales Representative - Wine & Spirits (Lincoln Metro)

Handcrafted Wine and Spirits is not just a job, it is an exciting opportunity! Handcrafted Wine and Spirits is a place where people love to work and are very proud of the brands we represent.

 

We are growing and expanding!

 

Are you ready to be part of a fun, growing, and dynamic team, known as our family?

 

If we are having fun, we are doing things right! We encourage our employees to act like entrepreneurs.

 

Handcrafted Wine and Spirits is seeking an outgoing, qualified individual to fill a sales representative position in the exciting Wine and Spirits industry in the Lincoln metropolitan area. Handcrafted Wines is new to the Nebraska market, but well experienced and successful with distribution operations in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Oregon. This is a fantastic opportunity to get in at the ground level, servicing the top accounts in the Lincoln metro and surrounding towns for a rapidly growing company. 

 

Every day we go to work filled with passion to be excellent!! The sky is the limit here!

Give us your best and we’ll give you ours.

About this position:

• Do you want to spend your work week in the field, and not behind a desk?
• Do you want UN CAPPED potential?
• Do you want to meet with customers on-site to help them grow their business with products you are proud to deliver?
• Do you enjoy the feeling and success of getting new business?
• Are you passionate, self-motivated, and customer-focused?
• Have you demonstrated the ability to surpass goals and can dust yourself off after a setback?
• Do you look at a glass as half full?
• Do you enjoy working remotely in an assigned geographic territory?

 

Primary Responsibilities/Job Duties:

• Love for human interaction.
• Provide exceptional customer service and take full ownership of assigned accounts and your work.
• Manage and grow existing and new accounts using your experience to prospect and develop new business within assigned sales territory.
• Open-minded to be educated.
• Build positive, credible, lasting customer relationships based on trust.
• Motivated and organized. 
• Develop a customer business growth plan for each account and build a pipeline of selling opportunities to drive incremental sales above base business.
• Create brand awareness of all HCW amazing products.
• Analyze data and insights to increase sales, grow customer business, and better achieve objectives.
• Prioritize sales activities to achieve objectives based on each customer’s business grown plan.
• Visit accounts regularly, grow account business, capture visit notes, and build visit plans considering pervious visit outcomes.
• Identify/close and maintain orders from existing and new accounts.
• Maintains ongoing relationship with customers to ensure consistent orders on an ongoing basis.
• Maintain a deep knowledge of HCW products, and correctly present and position them in each account.
• Able to build and structure customer presentations and product proposals.
• Propose solutions to each customer and win the sale using consultative selling skills based on each customer’s buying styles and individual business needs.
• Achieve internal HCW and supplier objectives as prioritized by management.
• Manage customers, seek additional opportunities to support the customer’s needs, and support business growth by providing customers with useful information and guidance.
• Accurate and timely data entry of customer orders.
• Sell and current products, and manage all promotions.
• Participate in sales meetings, on-site training, and supplier events as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

 

Pay and Benefits:

• Significant growth opportunities.
• Incentive opportunities.
• Cell Phone Allowance.
• Car Allowance.
• Competitive Compensation.
• Flexible Schedule.
• Paid Time Off/Vacation.
• Paid Holidays.
• Comprehensive Health Insurance options.
• Dental Insurance.
• Vision Insurance.
• Company Paid Long Term Disability Insurance.
• 401(k) with Company Matching.

 

Job Requirements:

• 2 or 4 yr BA/BS college degree, preferred but not required.
• Local candidates preferred (no relocation package).
• Must live in the Lincoln Metro area, or willing to commute to Lincoln Metro area daily.
• Committed to providing a high level of service to customers, suppliers, colleagues, and management. 
• Previous experience in the wine and spirits industry, preferred.
• Previous experience in a sales role, preferred. 
• Able to maintain a valid and current driver’s license and proof of insurance.
• Dependable and reliable transportation is required with no MVR violations. 
• Able to leverage HCW technology to perform duties and responsibilities accurately.
• Proficient in using mobile devices (i.e. smartphone, iPad, etc.) and communication techniques (i.e. email, texting, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances.
• Able to take responsibility for own actions and results.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.
• Goal and results driven with the ability to work independently, meet deadlines, and prioritize work.
• Travel as needed. 

 

Physical Demands:

• Activity may include sitting and using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) and/or using mobile device (i.e. smartphone, tablet).
• Activity may include bending, reaching, squatting, standing, stooping, and walking throughout the day with segments up to 6 hours.
• May require lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 60 pounds, sometime repeatedly.
• Driving throughout the day with segments up to 2 hours.

 

About Handcrafted Wine and Spirits:

Handcrafted Wines and Spirits is a national wine and spirits wholesaler with locations in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Oregon. We stock inventory from hundreds of wine and spirits producers across the world and sell and deliver these products to retail stores, liquor stores, and restaurants across the entirety of each state. Handcrafted has been in business since 1996 and is actively expanding.

 

Handcrafted Wine and Spirits is founded on the belief that suppliers, distributors, and retailers are partners in bringing the highest quality, most desired products to the market. Handcrafted has the vision to provide a meticulously vetted, concise selection of some the of the world’s finest handcrafted wines, spirits, and other beverages to our customer. For decades, our team has worked closely with both suppliers and customers to craft our portfolios to suit the unique markets in which we distribute across the country. Over the years, our portfolio has grown to meet the continually changing needs of our markets. 

 

Handcrafted Wine and Spirits is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO), prohibits discrimination and harassment of any time and provides equal treatment in employment to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, gender/gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, disability, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis in protected by applicable federal, state and local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Handcrafted Wine and Spirits makes employment and compensation decisions based solely on the basis of qualifications for the job, past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education of employees.

 

The Handcrafted Wine and Spirits family is excited for the growth of our company!!

 

Key Words:

Sales Representative. Sales Consultant. Territory Sales. Sales Territory. Territory Sales Representative. Territory. Sales. Retail. Wine. Spirits. Alcohol. Food & Beverage. Management. Account Management. Account Executive. Client Management. Growth. Remote. Lincoln. Omaha. Nebraska.

About Handcrafted Wines:

Handcrafted Wines is a national wine and spirits wholesaler with locations in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oregon. We stock inventory from hundreds of wine and spirits producers, and sell and deliver these products to retail stores, liquor stores and restaurants across the entirety of each state. Handcrafted has been in business since 1996 and is actively expanding.

Job Tags

Full time, Local area, Remote work, Relocation, Live in, Flexible hours,

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