A respected fine-wine importer with a premium European and South African portfolio is seeking a driven wine professional to join their team. You will be responsible for managing sales targets for their private customer base.
The ideal candidates will demonstrate strong communication, multitasking, problem-solving, time management, and commercial awareness skills.
Key responsibilities:
- Increase sales and achieve set targets, by managing accounts of various personal clients
- Continuously identify new sales opportunities and increase numeric distribution of products
- Monitor and track your own sales performance
- Manage customer relationships-key
- Maintain up-to-date sales database
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key customer accounts
- Plan and execute brand/wine tastings and presentations
- Provide excellent customer service to both customers and consumers
- Work collaboratively as part of a team to achieve overall sales targets
- Stay informed of wine trends and industry developments
- Investigate problems; prepare reports; develop solutions, and make recommendations to management to resolve customer complaints
Qualifications and skills:
- Relevant tertiary qualification with 2–5 years’ experience
- Wine certification (WSET preferred)
- Strong sales, negotiation, and commercial skills
- Proficient in MS office and CRM systems
- Excellent communication, presentation, multitasking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Customer-focused, well-networked, and knowledgeable about wine industry trends
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends.
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