Adult Beverage Brand Ambassador

The Adult Beverage Brand Ambassador generates excitement, brand awareness, and increases adult beverage product sales through event sampling and promotion. The individual will interact with consumers, clients, customers, and is responsible for understanding and implementing promotional techniques. This position will perform a wide range of activities ranging from brand promotion, training, product merchandising, and selling of products and services.

Advantage Solutions is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create brand awareness and positive impressions of the product by engaging consumers through sampling/distributing product and demonstrating product features.
• Interaction with consumers through sampling/distributing products and creating brand awareness and positive impressions.
• Responsible for ensuring brand talking points are communicated effectively with consumers.
• Seek sales opportunities in departments throughout the store and other venues to maximize sales and sales of related attachments.
• Successfully complete 3 events on a nightly basis
• Formulate, develop, and maintain strong communication links with customers
• Develop and sustain relationships with key accounts and staff within assigned areas
Event Set-up and Breakdown:
• Develop promotional kits for all events thru shared storage.
• Responsible for event set-up, sampling, and program breakdown.
• Arrive in designated apparel with required items to complete the event
• Ensure demonstration area is clean, organized, and correctly set up according to the instructions provided.
• Provide feedback to Market Manager in order to improve sale of all brand products

Personal Development/Training/Reporting:
• Accurately complete and timely submit HR paperwork and reports online; call reports, expense reports (if applicable), training certification quizzes, etc... Participate in mandatory on-line training and conference calls (paid).
• Attends initial training via on-line and conference call (specific date still TBD) as well as possible ongoing monthly product training, team meetings, client trainings, etc… (Paid) as a requirement.

Minimum Qualifications:

The following are the minimum job-related qualifications which an individual needs in order to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job.

• Must have 1 year plus Brand Ambassador or Bartending experience (On Premise Sampling experience is a plus)
• Due to the dispensing of alcohol, you must be 21 or older and requires Responsible Alcohol Training
• Significant experience in event marketing, demonstrations, sales, or retail/grocery is highly desirable

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• Reliable means of transportation
• Daily access to a PC computer with internet/email access
• Must be available to work Wednesday-Sunday evenings
• Passion for meeting new people and evangelizing outstanding products
• Engaging, outgoing, approachable personality
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with management
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and prioritize duties with minimal supervision, in order to meet deadlines
• Ability to make oral presentations

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled