Sales Trainer

At Suntory Global Spirits, we craft spirits of the highest quality and deliver brilliant experiences to people around the world. Suntory Global Spirits has evolved into the world's third largest leading premium spirits company ... where each employee is treated like family and trusted with legacy. With our greatest assets - our premium spirits and our people - we're driving growth through impactful marketing, innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. Suntory Global Spirits is a place where you can come Unleash your Spirit by making an impact each and every day.

What makes this a great opportunity?

The Sales Trainer is accountable for ensuring the delivery and execution of Suntory Global Spirits Commercial team capability plans achieve excellent executional standards. In this role, you will be translating the market strategy into commercial development programs, from onboarding, core sales skills training courses, facilitating Key Account plan creation & line manager coaching & training.

We are looking for someone with a good understanding of the spirits or FMCG industry and a sound commercial background to work hand in hand with the commercial functions (sales, RGM & commercial marketing), as well as external stakeholders. A person with a strong focus on Sales (Core and Premium), along with solid interpersonal skills to build collaborative relationships, be able to influence a diverse audience and represent Beam Suntory when needed.

Role Responsibilities

WHAT WE EXPECT FROM YOU

· Deliver face-to-face and virtual training courses to Commercial teams.

· Deliver and manage accreditations across the team.

· Regular days in trade to identify learning needs and accordingly define action plans to improve execution.

· Enable consistency of execution of the Steps of the Call.

· Liaise with commercial teams to understand strategies, plans and activations and translate them into excellent execution training & 6P delivery in market

· Coordinate Off Trade training delivered by agencies.

· Support and mentor commercial teams to enhance execution excellence and sales by providing techniques to overcome customer challenges and sharing solutions/tools to improve KPIs achievements.

· Define and ensure visibility of the monthly training calendar.

· Ensure all training materials is available and up to date.

· Define cohorts and track training success.

· Support talent mapping & career planning and participate in other projects/tasks as required.

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years of sales or KAR experience within FMCG/spirits. At least 2 years of experience as commercial/sales trainer. Team management experience an advantage.

· Ability to navigate effectively, influence and thrive in a multicultural and diverse matrix structure.

· Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability in a wide range of situations, and ability to embrace and drive change.

· Team player with a strong collaborative approach able to build an inclusive and outperformance culture.

· Customer focused and people oriented.

· Critical thinking, analytical and decision-making abilities.

· Good analytical skills with the ability to work within a deadline and deliver commercial KPIs.

· Fast learner, able to work independently, passionate, energetic and enthusiast.

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to engage team, colleagues, and external stakeholders at various levels.

· Understanding of effective teaching methodologies and tools.

· Willingness to keep abreast of new techniques in corporate training.

· Fluent in both written and oral English and Spanish

At Suntory Global Spirits, people are our number one priority, and we believe our people grow together in diverse and inclusive environments where their unique insights, experiences and backgrounds are valued and respected. Suntory Global Spirits is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, military veteran status and all other characteristics, attributes or choices protected by law. All recruitment and hiring decisions are based on an applicant's skills and experience.