On And Off Premise Sales Representative

$54300 - $59300

Monday-Friday

The Position will cover Telluride, West End, Ridgway, and Ouray.

Interested in joining a winning team? Start your career in beer with High Country Beverage!

HCB is always looking for great employees to share in our passion for excellence! Our team oriented culture and can-do attitude provide the perfect platform for individual growth opportunities in delivery, sales, marketing, warehouse, and administration.

High Country Beverage represents some of the best brands in the world such as Coors Light, Coors Banquet, Blue Moon, Corona Extra, Modelo Especial, Guinness, Fat Tire, White Claw, Truly, and a number of other world famous brands!

Why HCB?

HCB employees rave about the team members and management they work with. The organized systems we have in place keep things running smoothly which keeps our employees happy. Not to mention, a career in beer has a lot of perks, including but not limited to:

• Paid holidays
• Career advancement opportunities
• Paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• On site hospitality room with weekly happy hours to enjoy the beverages we carry and take part in new product tasting events
• Paid sick leave
• Company sponsored parties including FACs, holiday parties, and family friendly events
• Taxi Reimbursement program to prevent drinking and driving and promote safe fun
• 401K with up to a 5% match, 100% vesting
• High quality, low employee contribution benefits including Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance, ST/LT Disability, and Life Insurance
• Great discounts on beer, wine, and spirits
• Paid vacation (accruing 2 weeks of paid vacation during your first year)

Position Purpose

Responsible for distribution and sales for all products distributed by High Country Beverage (HCB) in assigned territory. Responsible for achieving sales and distribution goals in assigned territory. Responsible for achieving Retail Account Standards objectives, merchandising and overall quality assurance of HCB products. This position is responsible for growing total HCB business in the assigned territory

Essential Functions:

• Maintain work productivity over differing conditions including but not limited to temperature and order quantity
• Safely maneuver cases and kegs
• Remain compliant with drug, alcohol, and motor vehicle policies
• Adhere to all state and company policies and procedures
• Ability to safely lift 160 lbs without accommodations
• Attendance

Principal Accountabilities:

• Manage retail inventories to minimize out of stocks, insure product freshness and adequate product available for displays.
• Maintain required call frequency in assigned pre-sales accounts in order to achieve sales goals and objectives. Goals include full-line selling, dominant display execution, current POS merchandising and securing price and ad feature activities.

• Follow Retail Account Standard Supplier shelf management goals. Aggressively solicits displayed ad feature activity, secures primary position of HCB permanent and paper P.O.S. in accordance with the Retail Account Standards. Performance by account tracked and measured.
• Develop and maintain excellent customer rapport.
• Responsible for attendance and promptness including mandatory sales, supplier and breakout meetings.
• Submits all required reports and MBO tracking neat and on time.
• Responsible for understanding and complying with all quality assurance guidelines of HCB. Manages inventory and follows a rotation schedule for all HCB products in assigned accounts according to a planned schedule of every account/ minimum once per month, or as frequently as necessary to insure fresh product.
• Required to collect written copies and report all competitive information including pricing, post-off activity, special promotions and new product introduction.
• Updates account information on a weekly basis along with submitting status change reports of all account or route changes.
• Understands and compiles with all local, state and federal regulations along with all HCB policies and procedures.
• Maintains proper upkeep of assigned Company vehicle and observes safe driving habits when operating all Company vehicles.
• Responsible for keeping assigned customers current with HCB credit terms and adhering to State and HCB credit regulations and policies.
• Completes special assignments at the request of the HCB management.
• Communicates special delivery instructions to delivery personnel and Route Supervisor on a daily basis. Informs Supervisor of all customer/retailer complaints.
• Responsible for achieving Monthly Business Objectives (MBOs) in assigned territory.

• High Country Beverage offers 7 day a week, 24-hour service. Pre- ales Representatives and Route Supervisors all share responsibility for this service on a rotating basis. Must be able to operate forklift, delivery equipment, and physically deliver kegs and cases while on call.

Leadership

This position is considered a leader in the HCB organization. As such, the Pre-Sales Representative will maintain a professional appearance and attitude at all times. Position will be asked to perform duties “above and beyond the normal” from time to time, and expected to cheerfully perform such duties. This Position is expected to be a positive role model for other HCB employees.

Benefits including: Medical/Dental & Vision, ST/LT Disability, Life Insurance, Accident & Critical Illness insurance, 401(k), paid vacation etc.

Employee Beer Discounts

Advancement Opportunities

While we sincerely appreciate all applications, only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

Please note selected candidates will be subject to an MVR & criminal background check and a pre-employment physical/drug screen.