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Adult Beverage Brand Ambassador

The Adult Beverage Brand Ambassador generates excitement, brand awareness, and increases adult beverage product sales through event sampling and promotion. The individual will interact with consumers, clients, customers, and is responsible for understanding and implementing promotional techniques. This position will perform a wide range of activities ranging from brand promotion, training, product merchandising, and selling of products and services.

The Company is one of North America's leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

Brand Awareness & Sales:

• Create brand awareness and positive impressions of the product by engaging consumers through sampling/distributing product and demonstrating product features.
• Interaction with consumers through sampling/distributing products and creating brand awareness and positive impressions.
• Responsible for ensuring brand talking points are communicated effectively with consumers.
• Seek sales opportunities in departments throughout the store and other venues to maximize sales and sales of related attachments.
• Successfully complete three events on a nightly basis.
• Formulate, develop, and maintain strong communication links with customers.
• Develop and sustain relationships with key accounts and staff within assigned areas.

Event Set-up and Breakdown:

• Develop promotional kits for all events thru shared storage.
• Responsible for event set-up, sampling, and program breakdown.
• Arrive in designated apparel with required items to complete the event.
• Ensure demonstration area is clean, organized, and correctly set up according to the instructions provided.
• Provide feedback to Market Manager in order to improve sale of all brand products.

Personal Development/Training/Reporting:

• Accurately complete and timely submit HR paperwork and reports online; call reports, expense reports (if applicable), training certification quizzes, etc... Participate in mandatory on-line training and conference calls (paid).
• Attends initial training via on-line and conference call (specific date still TBD) as well as possible ongoing monthly product training, team meetings, client trainings, etc (Paid) as a requirement.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct Reports- This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports.

Indirect Reports- This position does not have guidance or mentoring responsibilities for indirect reports.

Travel and/or Driving Requirements - Travel is not an essential duty and function of this job. Driving is an essential duty or function of this job.

Minimum Qualifications

The following are the minimum job-related qualifications which an individual needs in order to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job:

• Education Level: (Required) Associate's Degree or equivalent experience
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• Must have 1 year plus Brand Ambassador or Bartending experience (On Premise Sampling experience is a plus)
• Due to the dispensing of alcohol, you must be 21 or older and requires Responsible Alcohol Training
• Significant experience in event marketing, demonstrations, sales, or retail/grocery is highly desirable

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Reliable means of transportation

Daily access to a PC computer with internet/email access

Must be available to work Wednesday-Sunday evenings

Passion for meeting new people and evangelizing outstanding products

Engaging, outgoing, approachable personality

Excellent verbal/written communication skills

Ability to work effectively with management

Good interpersonal skills

Ability to work independently and prioritize duties with minimal supervision, in order to meet deadlines

Ability to make oral presentations

Environmental & Physical Requirements

Field / Administrative Requirements: Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work may be performed in an office, field, retail store, or warehouse environment. Typically requires the ability to spend 66%+ hours each work day doing the following activities: engage in considerable physical activity, ability to lift and/or push up to 50 pounds, stand on feet for long periods of time, use products or cook food as appropriate for the demonstration, and may be required to work in extremely cold conditions (i.e. refrigerated and freezer sections). Also required to travel and drive. The use of proper safety practices when handling the products and/or cooking is essential.

Important Information

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of associates so classified.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.