Talent Safari

Sales Manager

Talent Safari

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Serengeti Spirits is a startup brand and manufacturer of craft-produced alcoholic spirits flavoured with tropical fruits from Zanzibar
  • Micro distillery based in Braunston, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
  • First full-time sales hire to help launch and grow the business
  • Role supported by part-time staff in the UK and Tanzania
  • Generate sales in the UK and abroad across e-commerce, retail, wholesale, on-trade and off-trade
  • Build business relationships with prospective customers and distributors
  • Manage the end-to-end sales process from lead generation to after-sales service
  • Work closely with the marketing manager to ensure marketing supports sales growth
  • Ad hoc requirements typical of a new start-up; start date ASAP

Requirements

  • MUST be fluent in written & spoken English
  • Required to be very hardworking and determined
  • Experience of working in a sales role, ideally in retail, wholesale & export
  • Experience in the drinks industry is desirable
  • Tech-savvy and must be able to make use of a range of sales and automation tools
  • Self-motivated, ambitious, and interested in growing with an exciting start-up company
  • Interest in Spirits, cocktails & mixers is preferable
  • Must want to progress within the business as the business expands
  • Friendly and personable to build business relationships as the ‘face’ of the company
  • Must be very well presented, spoken and sociable for networking and projecting the company in the premium segment of the market