- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification Bachelors
- Experience 5 years
- Location Gauteng
- City Johannesburg
- Job Field Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 
National Wholesale Manager at Red Bull
National Wholesale Manager
Areas that play to your strengths
Customer Management
- Assign sales, distribution, execution etc. targets to wholesale & redistributor partners based on business targets and set up regular meetings to review
- Regular Trade Visits with 3rd party sales & merchandising agency to coach teams and unlock distribution and execution opportunities
- Analyse the opportunities in the region, take proper action and implement as needed
- Create strong knowledge of and personal relationships with the top wholesalers & redistributors
- Build winning initiatives to drive reach, sales targets, and our execution in all channels, including Indirect via WHS
- Ensures customers fully understand and execute Red Bull execution / merchandising standards
- Implement systems to track and benchmark wholesalers & redistributors against key initiatives/goals
- Plan and Execute incentive programs in line with company targets to keep sales representatives focused and motivated
- Be a credible beverage business consultant to customers and act as a category captain by presenting category and Red Bull Potential
Business Planning
- Develop business plans by customer to deliver on all relevant RBZA strategic initiatives including volume, horizontal & #vertical distribution, execution and information exchange (depletion data). Ensure the plan is aligned to overall RBZA plan
- Budget Management
- Manage assigned budgets where applicable (Examples: incentive budgets, free goods budget, POS budget and in some cases regional account budgets)
Business Intelligence
- Maintains strong working knowledge of all relevant Red Bull systems
- Proactively uses available reports to maximize on all opportunities including competitor intelligence
Other
- Share and enforce guidelines with regards to Red Bull’s inventory policy
- Develops working knowledge of geographic and demographic areas in assigned geography
- Ensure a sustainable Go to Market (GTM) strategy and structure in assigned geography
- Develops expertise with regards to product competition and distributor competition in respective area
- Communicates regularly and works effectively with all internal sales team and marketing teams to secure full alignment of the sales goals with the DP
- Close and frequent collaboration with OnP KAM, Finance and Ops teams
- Manage risk by taking alternative precautions with a proactive approach by determining the risks that would hamper Red Bull business
- Close alignment of pricing and promotions with all necessary key stakeholders (MD, Off Premise, On Premise and Finance) to minimise the threat of cross channel cannibalisation and to maintain profitability
- Represent Red Bull brand and values in the best way, including appearance, attitude and behaviour
EXPERIENCE
Your areas of knowledge and expertise that matter most for this role:
- Bachelor’s Degree (Relevant equivalent)
- Outstanding sales experience and track record in Consumer Goods industry (Beverage preferred), +5 years
- Customer Management – Distributor & Supplier experience preferred
- Successful track record in team management and leadership
- Experience with basic administrative programs, Windows, Word, PowerPoint, Excel
- Local market / geographical knowledge beneficial
- Key Account experience (an Advantage)
- Proactive, with a flair for continuous improvement.
- Able to be flexible & to embrace change.
- Strong communications skills (verbal and written).
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel.
- Self-starter with initiative & attention to detail.
- Well organised & able to handle multiple priorities in a relaxed manner.
- Able to see tasks through from inception to completion
- Professional, focussed, responsible & passionate approach to work.
- Travel 50-60%
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Red Bull on jobs.redbull.com to apply

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