Regional Manager, IL

Req ID: 6656 

Department: [[department]] 

Status: [[jobType]], Exempt 

Location: Chicago, Illinois (US-IL) 

Workplace Location: Remote 

Job Summary: 

The Regional Manager (RM) is responsible for building the Trinchero Family Estates’ portfolio through a partnership with the distributor teams in the assigned division. This frontline sales resource is responsible for building strong relationships with and influencing the wholesaler such that they prioritize on the Trinchero portfolio through education and training initiatives.  Additionally, the RM will build relationships with valuable key accounts within their area of responsibility in support of their distributor partners.

Essential Functions:

The following reflects the essential functions for this job.  Leadership may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or the needs of the business.

• Maintain a visible and actively working presence in the market both with our key and target accounts independently and with distributors to effectively influence account purchase decisions and deliver the Trinchero annual plan.
• Provide leadership, teach, coach, guide, mentor and develop a high-performance team for optimal execution and results. Build respectful relationships – promote an environment of trust and open communication. Lead by example.
• Performance Management: Conduct yearly performance evaluations, provide quarterly formal performance reviews, and provide feedback to direct reports. Regularly communicate with team to achieve mutual understanding and desired results.
• Build and deliver insightful, fact-based selling stories that move distributors, key, and target accounts to make the choice of the TFE portfolio to increase market share.  Drive value through your selling choices.

Distributor Management: Minimum 50%

• Influence and engage distributor partners, and broker relationships through the establishment of monthly, quarterly, and annual sales goals and objectives for case volume, distribution, and revenues that will achieve the annual plan.
• Teach distributor partners on brand standards and activation initiatives.
• Motivate and educate our distributor teams by sharing strong, insightful, and fact-based selling information that emphasizes the value of our broad portfolio, deep family history and powerful brand stories to motivate and excite our distributor team.
• Responsible for the implementation, execution, measuring and communication of priority marketing programs.
• Plan, Track, measure, and report back priority marketing programs, distributor goals and key initiatives to the distributor sales team and TFE leadership.
• Participate in community events and activities while representing the winery in a manner consistent with our core values and goals.
• Lead by example good business practices and acumen.

Account Management: 30%

• Analyze market conditions and provide strategic insights on the competitive and category landscape.
• Manage a Key and Target account list for each channel and use it as