Sales & Trade Marketing Agent (Iasi)

Mellow Drinks is involved in production and distribution of natural juices. All our juices and smoothies are produced only from pressed fruits (not from concentrate). We don’t add any preservatives, sugar or water. We bottle the juice in glass bottle to preserve the freshness. You can find our products mainly in HORECA.
On top we are importing of fritz-kola and Fentimans in Romania.

Skills, Interests and Qualities:
• Interest in working in small fast growing company
• Proven ability to work independently, without supervision and achieve its goals.
• Habit of leadership proof. We are interested in any form of leadership. From initiatives at work (professional or extracurricular) to leading any type of teams. In essence, we are looking for evidence of your potential.
• Analytical skills we expect to solve both complex and uncomplicated problems and concepts, and make decisions based on available information
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent sales and negotiation skills
• Determination and the drive to work towards targets
• The resilience to deal with customers who turn you down
• Attention to detail
• The ability to develop in-depth knowledge about your products and markets
• Good business sense and a professional manner.


Experience Required or Preferred
This is an entry level job and we don’t expect prior professional experience. However, we prefer our ideal candidate to have the following experience:
• Last year of university, BA is preferred
• Extracurricular experience is a must (volunteer in a student organization should do it)
• Some experience in sales is a plus

Sales - 50% of your time
• Coordinate and assist distributors new sales efforts (i.e. listing new clients, negotiate with the new clients, inventory management supervision)
• Supervise re-orders and inventory management at each PoS
• Identify any complain/problem from each PoS in your geography and solve the issues.
• Collect Customers, HORECA and Distributor feedback.
• Collect information about competition movements


Trade Marketing - 50% of your time
• Review, Profile and Select core target PoS to display our trade marketing materials
• Accountable for trade marketing implementation in each PoS.
• Collect feedback from the HORECA about the product

Recruitment Process
1. CV Screening on HIPO
2. Online Tests (mainly to determine the personal profile, similar with Myers Briggs)
3. 1-2 interviews
Here are some ideas about what we would like to learn about you.
• Study Case – expect to have a study case to solve. This will help us understand your ability to solve problems.
• What do you know about the beverage industry?
• Why are you interested in a career in this industry?
• Be prepared to discuss your résumé.
• Think about your strengths and weaknesses and be able to discuss both. How do your strengths apply to this traineeship?
• What are your three greatest accomplishments?
• Describe a failure. What did you learn from it?

Package Information
• Competitive base salary + Bonus.
• Company car
• Mobile phone and Laptop