Red Bull

East Director, Large Format Wiring

Red Bull$130K — $160K *
Food & Beverages
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in CPG sales, preferably in food or beverage
  • Proven expertise in Key, Regional, or National account management, especially in large format
  • Familiarity with Direct Store Delivery (DSD) networks is advantageous
  • Strong negotiation and influencing skills, using business analytics for decision-making
  • Experience as a change agent and performance coach for talent development
  • Self-motivated, adaptable, and capable of thriving under pressure in fast-paced environments
  • Strategic thinker with an emphasis on long-term, practical solutions
  • Ability to analyze complex data and identify trends effectively
  • Exceptional communication, organization, and presentation skills
  • Knowledge of consumer marketing principles and cross-departmental collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Develop long-term strategies for key grocery partners, assessing market conditions and available resources.
  • Lead execution of sales initiatives in large regional accounts, focusing on relationship-building.
  • Contribute actively to HQ cross-functional teams to represent sales perspectives and objectives.
  • Manage a substantial POS budget, analyzing return on investment for future allocations.
  • Build and lead a geographically diverse team, focusing on career development and productivity enhancements.
  • Drive alignment among stakeholders and create processes for effective communication across accounts.
  • Develop training tools and selling strategies to adapt to market dynamics and advance competitive edge.

Benefits

  • High-level of autonomy in managing a significant budget and strategic partnerships.
  • Opportunity for extensive travel within the Northeast region.
  • Involvement in leadership coaching and professional development.
  • Access to a dynamic, fast-paced work environment with a focus on innovation.
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams to enhance sales and marketing strategies.
Full Job Description
As a key leader within Red Bull's Large Format Sales organization, this role is responsible for driving growth and building strong partnerships across our largest regional grocery customers. Leading a team of Regional Sales Managers, you'll help shape customer strategies, identify new opportunities, and ensure the team has the support, resources, and direction needed to deliver outstanding results.

Working closely with retail partners and cross-functional teams, you'll bring innovative initiatives to life, strengthen customer relationships, and drive sustainable growth in sales, market share, and overall business performance.

This role can sit out of any major airport in the Northeast region.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:
  • STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLANNING
    Develop long-term field strategies for key East Grocery partners in the west and specific initiatives considering company direction, focus area, key customers, market parameters and resources.
    Aggregate and analyze large amounts of complex data quickly, and distill that data into clear, viable action plans.
    Allocate resources where the investment has the highest payback and with customers with strategic importance/relevance to winning volume and share.
    Drive the annual business planning process with the key Regional Accounts and their respective Field Teams though advanced channel programs, initiatives, and tactics.
    Monitor market trends and maintain timely data on competition.
  • OVERSIGHT OF LARGE FORMAT KEY ACCOUNTS
    Lead the execution of long-term sales drivers in Large Format East regional key accounts.
    Improve relationships with top chain accounts by adding value through thought leadership and strategic partnerships.
    Consistently evaluate ROI and investment for each chain and channel and make appropriate adjustments as needed.
    Issue clear direction and guidelines with regards to priorities - both qualitative and quantitative.
    Improve relationships and increase wiring with leadership at top chain accounts by adding value through thought leadership and strategic partnerships.
  • CROSS FUNCTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
    Actively contribute to a wide variety of HQ Cross Functional Teams within RBNA to ensure sales representation and the Key Account's 'voice'.
    Communicate, align, and execute associated Cross Functional Team objectives across RBNA.
    Wire with critical Distributor Partners and their respective LT to improve execution performance at store level and communication efficiency.
  • BUDGET OWNERSHIP
    Own and manage custom multi-million-dollar POS budget across East and consistently evaluates ROI to inform future spend.
    Allocate resources where the investment has the highest payback with strategically important high-volume regions.
    Drive post-promotion analysis process following all programs to evaluate promotional effectiveness and in-store execution.
    Accurate forecasting of CAPEX/OPEX spend with consideration of prior year performance.
  • LEADERSHIP, COACHING, AND DEVELOPMENT
    Build, develop, and lead a large geographically disparate team. Ensure career development for the Large Format organization.
    Assist account managers to develop effective programs.
    Coach, educate and motivate direct reports for increased productivity.
    Spend adequate time with team in office and field to implement and execute Red Bull standards.
    Lead team to develop thought-leading initiatives and insights that impact national strategy.
    Lead the business priorities, objectives, and results across CPM/CRM (long-term business transformation process) as it relates to all Key Account field processes.
    Develop trainings and processes to ensure CPM/CRM becomes part of RBNA culture.
  • NATIONAL FIELD COMMUNICATION
    Drive key stakeholder alignment across the organization. Leverages Sales Activator and Sales Activator Manager roles to provide best in class partnerships with Key Regional Grocery Accounts
    Develop trainings and team skills to build and maintain business relationships with senior management across wired Key Accounts nationally.
    Create and implement processes to ensure all accounts' key decision makers carry a long-term focus on the energy segment with supporting strategies at the field level.
    Work cross functionally with SaMo/BU department leads to create selling tools to support the field as market changes and resources are needed to win ahead of competition.


EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

  • Minimum 10 years-experience in CPG sales; food or beverage experience preferred.
  • Experience in Key, Regional or National account management required; large format experience preferred.
  • Experience working with a DSD network preferred.
  • Excellent negotiator and influencer, leveraging business analytics to achieve desired outcomes.
  • Demonstrated skills as a change agent, leader, and performance coach to develop talent.
  • Self-motivated, self-directed, flexible and able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strategic thinker and passionate for achieving long-term success via hands on, solutions-oriented approach.
  • Analytical background and ability to analyze complex trends and data.
  • Strong Communication skills, highly organized and manages timelines and objectives effectively. Strong presentation and facilitation abilities.
  • Strong knowledge of consumer marketing principles. Experience in supporting and facilitating cross-departmental interdependencies, across sales and marketing.
  • Travel 70-80%
  • Permanent
  • Benefits eligible


WHERE YOU'LL BE BASED

BostonMassachusetts, United States

United StatesRed Bull North America

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About Red Bull

Red Bull is an energy drink sold by Red Bull GmbH, an Austrian company created in 1987. Red Bull has the highest market share of any energy drink in the world, with 7.5 billion cans sold in a year (as of 2019). Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz was inspired by an existing energy drink named Krating Daeng, which was first introduced and sold in Thailand by Chaleo Yoovidhya. He took this idea, modified the ingredients to suit the tastes of Westerners, and, in partnership with Chaleo, founded Red Bull GmbH in 1987. Red Bull is sold in a tall and slim blue-silver can, and is marketed through advertising, events (Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, Red Bull Air Race, Red Bull Crashed Ice), sports team ownerships (Red Bull Racing, Scuderia AlphaTauri, FC Red Bull Salzburg, New York Red Bulls, Red Bull Brasil, RB Leipzig, EC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Ghana), celebrity endorsements, and music, through its record label Red Bull Records.
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