Senior Vice President responsible for leading sales division at New Jersey’s largest wine and spirits distributor. Oversee brand planning and strategy with a focus on P&L deliverables.
Responsibilities
Champion the AOP: Lead Supplier commercial planning, execution, tracking and reporting, ensuring development and deployment of strategies and initiatives that drive short-term success while setting the foundation for building long-term brand equity.
Deliver the P&L: Deliver revenue and profit targets, ensuring consistent delivery against financial targets while maintaining cost discipline and identifying revenue growth opportunities.
Embed Capability: Match organizational capability to AOP, ensuring efficient and effective resource deployment.
Drive In-Market Excellence: Translate commercial objectives into exceptional, inspiring and stretching but achievable commercial plans.
Set and Track KPIs: Set and track against measurable KPIs across Retail, On-Premise, Digital and emerging channels, ensuring agility in course corrections when required.
Act as Public Face: Represent ABG and its Brand Owners in front of key external commercial stakeholders, including customers, distributors and associations.
Engage Brand Owners: Serve as a strategic partner to Brand Owner leadership, ensuring mutual goals are set and achieved through collaborative planning, consistent communication and operational excellence.
Drive Best Practice: Engage with Brand Owners’ distributor network to ensure application of consistent commercial best practices as a collective Route to Market.
Inspire a High Performing team: Build and lead a high-performing commercial team, cultivating talent, fostering accountability, and investing in leadership development to strengthen long-term bench.
Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with internal senior leaders, including Strategy, Finance, Trade Marketing, Logistics and Sales Operations, in the delivery of the AOP.
Engage Agencies: Bridge with 3rd party agencies to act as one team in delivering key initiatives and overall business advocacy.
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
15+ years of progressive commercial strategy and sales leadership experience within beverage alcohol.
Direct P&L responsibility for $50M+ revenue business.
Leadership of or engagement with cross-functional team, with a focus on finance, operations, HR and compliance.
Mastery of commercial strategy, including customer segmentation, category management, value chain optimization, sales planning & goal delivery, commercial execution and Digital/eCommerce in driving commercial success.
Sharp analytical and financial acumen, fueling team’s approach to business planning, tracking, risk and opportunity assessment and timely course correction activities.
Strong leadership skills, including talent recruitment and development, team inspiration, performance management and cross-functional engagement.
Experience leading or participating in change management program.
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to build trust and influence across levels, functions and companies.
Ability to lead with resilience in a challenging environment.
Ability to identify critical stakeholders in building and delivering a plan.
Ability to balance operating with autonomy and taking specific direction.
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