Description

Job Title: Sales Representative Eastern Switzerland

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About The Function:

Diageo Switzerland is part of DACH: a cluster consisting of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It is a diverse and exciting business with local and global customers operating across on-trade, off-trade, and RTM. Your role will be focused on a region within the Swiss Market across the On Trade which includes bars, restaurants, and clubs. In this role, you will rapidly learn about the industry Diageo operates in.

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About the role:

Please note that this field-based position is responsible for the Eastern part of Switzerland (St. Gallen, Thurgau, Schaffhausen, Winterthur, Appenzell, Liechtenstein, Glarus) and can be based anywhere within this region - preferably in St. Gallen.

Role Responsibilities:

Responsibilities Include

Distribution and Sales driver execution/activation

• Focus on the sell-in of Diageo portfolio and brand activations at current, and new business partners
• Ability to understand customer requirements and match these to specific Diageo propositions
• Analysing the performance of activations in outlet

Being a (sales) professional

• Seeking new business opportunities in the on-trade in partnership with colleagues
• Strong ownership of the day-to-day customer relationship efficiency through structured brand/solution sell-in, persuasion, and conflict resolution skills

Operational excellence in execution and efficiency

• Structured, organized, efficient planning, personal ownership, and clear communication skills to internal and external partners
• Operating with a clear set of priorities, adjusting for opportunities and obstacles
• Ability and confidence to make the necessary informed recommendations required to ensure activities are effectively delivered and adjusted/course-corrected as required

Experience / skills required:

About You

If you are looking to start in our commercial organization, this one is for you. Accelerating in this role will open future career opportunities within the company. Of course, you will receive relevant training and mentor to increase your capabilities to help you achieve goals.

• Professional experience in a commercial role, preferably in FMCG
• Fluency in German (Swiss German is a plus)
• University degree or equivalent experience
• Existing understanding of the spirits market or high interest and passion for our products
• Structured, take pride in delivering on time and always looking for solutions
• Great communication skills, open personality, dedicated, a great teammate
• Driver's license

Our Offer

• An inclusive company culture that puts employees and their development first
• A competitive salary with bonus and many benefits
• 25 days of vacation
• An industry-leading parental leave policy
• ...and of course, THE best colleagues!

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of "celebrating life every day everywhere". This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose, and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, and flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.