Territory Manager Edmonton, Ab

Territory Manager, based in Edmonton, AB

**About Us**
‘Brewers with Heart’ is what we are known for. We thrive on the legendary passion and leadership that 16 front-line employees, ‘The Original 16’, demonstrated when they saved the brewery from closure in 1990 and founded the Great Western Brewing Company. We win brewing awards and have learned to reinvent ourselves. We are proud, independent, and determined
Why Work Here
- Your work will be noticed and what you do matters
- We are the perfect sized organization to work for, big enough to do interesting work yet small enough that our CEO knows each of us
- Culture of bold ambition, delivering on our commitments
- Leadership with passion and a great sense of humour
- You do not need to just stay in your lane, in fact, initiative is what created the company we are today

**Great Western Brewing Employee Core Competencies**:

- Action Oriented: Enjoys working hard, not fearful of acting with minimum planning
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive and need to finish
- Compassion: Genuinely cares about people, is available and ready to help
- Integrity and Trust: Is widely trusted, is direct, truthful and doesn’t misrepresent
- Peer Relationships: Can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all, is seen as a team player and cooperative

**Here’s what you’ll do**
The Territory manager will play a critical role in supporting and selling in the Great Western brands within their assigned territory (On & Off Premise as assigned). This individual will be involved in identifying key accounts, strengthening and building relationships, and using the Great Western Way to achieve sales objectives. The individual will use their organizational skills, analytical capabilities and communication skills to optimize the role and interface and provide support with the Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations functions. The position will support the Commercial team.

**A day in a life may look like.**
1. Managing a territory of accounts (On & Off Premise as assigned) with a structured route that is visited on a regular basis
2. Calling on accounts with a predetermined schedule of sales goals to expand the reach of GW and grow the volume base
3. Building relationships with our accounts to strengthen their commitment to GW
4. Leveraging our brands and our properties to increase sales and maintain a positive return on investment
5. Interfacing with the sales and marketing group to ensure that our accounts have the proper POS
6. Providing the Commercial team with insight on market trends and conditions
7. Meeting with key decision makers within the retail environment (i.e. store managers) to strengthen relationships
8. Using business acumen to uncover market opportunities or issues and using insights to provide business solutions, changes or adaptations depending on market conditions
9. Analysis and follow up on key performance indicators, manage and adhere to territory budgets.

**Main deliverables**
1. Understanding the Great Western long term strategy and being able to provide increased volume and distribution within those parameters
2. Understanding the Great Western building blocks and using it as a guideline to selling our brands based on customer and consumer demographics
3. Follow up and maintenance of the annual territory budget and managing within those boundaries. Understanding the significance of managing the budget to increase the return on investment
4. Deliver an annual volume budget for the territory (forecast)
5. Provide insights and analysis on competitive environment on a regular basis
6. Work closely with the Regional Sales Manager to develop and execute sales goals and objectives throughout the year
7. Manage a Territory expense plan that is developed annually to reflect against the Territories annual sales volume ($/HL)

**Key Requirements and Capabilities**
⦁ Minimum undergraduate degree or 3-5 years of commercial sales experience
⦁ Familiarity with the region and marketplace
⦁ Strong business acumen and analytic capabilities
⦁ Good technical skills
⦁ Ability to communicate and influence
⦁ Physically fit as duties include product handling up to and including kegs of 160lbs.
⦁ Must be available to attend evening & weekend events as required

We thank all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $60,000.00-$70,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- Vision care

**Location**:

- Edmonton, AB (required)

Work Location: On the road