Posted:
8/30/2024, 9:34:15 AM
Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior
Field(s):
Sales & Account Management
Workplace Type:
Remote
Mission Statement:
We are Black Rifle Coffee Company, a veteran-founded company serving premium, fresh-roasted coffee to people who love America. We have a love for coffee, dogs, the outdoors, America, and most importantly, our customers! We are more than a product and more than a company; we are a culture. A culture full of motivated people who roll up their sleeves and get the job done with integrity, love, innovation, and radical transparency. Join us as we take action on our commitment to provide quality coffee and give back to the veteran and first responder communities and those who support it.
Job Summary
The Sr. Sales Director, Grocery – Grocery is responsible for establishing and delivering step-change physical availability, net revenue and market share growth in the strategic Grocery Customers of Albertsons / Safeway and Kroger by building relationships key Retail Partners as well as BRCC internal cross functional partners. Accountabilities include budgetary management, profitable business expansion via net revenue, gross margin, market share, merchandising and distribution targets.Job Details
Key Responsibilities:
Performance Delivery: Establishing, building, and executing annual plans for these critical Grocery Partners to ensure delivery of Net Revenue Growth, Distribution and Market Share objectives.
Customer Development: Organizing sales resources, translating BRCC opportunity into Customer specific category growth plans, leveraging the retailer’s strategy. Managing top to top relationships with all responsible accounts & divisions, which deliver customer satisfaction, and foster an environment to achieve mutual business plans and growth objectives enabling BRCC to be a trusted growth partner.
Vision & Planning: Convert Annual Internal Plans into a Joint Business Plans with desired partners, motivating cross-functional resources to support execution and delivery against business targets. Create a multi-year vision for future growth.
Demand Planning: Assist with the development of forecast for respective Grocery Accounts, and provide input into new product concepts, new product launch forecasts, ongoing replenishment forecasts, competitive landscape, and overall brand plans.
Fiscal Management: Ability to track trade spending across assigned customers.
Gap Closing: Proactively Identify “gaps” in plan and product offering providing solutions to close gaps in a timely manner.
Cross Functional Leadership: Collaborating with sales and marketing cross functional partners to provide critical customer input into the business around development of marketing strategies and activity sets. Provide leadership with a clear and concise view of the business and roadmap for future growth.
Talent Development: Take an active role in the development of the talent on the broader Food Drug Mass Sales Team.
Contributing to a High Performing Team: Productively influence cross functionally. Create and implement new and/or innovative ways to sell, merchandise and market our products and thrive in a fast-paced environment with a great deal of freedom and a high sense of responsibility. Exhibiting BRCC Core Values is a must.
Education and Skill Requirements
10+ years of relevant Food, Drug and Mass Channel experience in sales and management within the Consumer Products industry
A proven track record of building and accelerating successful businesses in FDM customers directly or through a Broker Partner
A strong understanding of a customer P&L and the levers available to improve financial performance for BRCC
Ability to develop internal plans (AOP) and External Plans (JBP) that deliver on BRCC and Customer objectives
3 + years of People or Team Management in Consumer Products industry
Strong presentation skills, with the proven ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders;
Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
Strong computer and analytical skills; mid-level excel skills required
Experience negotiating and executing customer agreements required
Strong interpersonal skills, with the intuitive ability to work effectively with various personality types
Bachelor’s Degree required
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work/Physical Requirements
Position based remotely
This is a full-time position and may require long hours and may require weekend and nights work per events
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard reach, stoop kneel to install computer equipment
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
Light to moderate lifting is required
Ability to uphold the stress of traveling. Estimated travel 25-30 %.
Regular, predictable attendance is required; including quarter-driven hours as business demands dictate
Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic)
Ability to work in a confined area
Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period of time
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Website: https://blackriflecoffee.com/
Headquarter Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Employee Count: 251-500
Year Founded: 2014
IPO Status: Public
Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt
Industries: Coffee ⋅ Food and Beverage ⋅ Retail