Head of Ontrade Switzerland

Location: Switzerland

Language Requirements: fluent German and English, French is a plus

About Us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

Top Accountabilities

Team leadership:

• Lead a team of 7 to 10 Sales Representatives and Brand Ambassador, managing their performance and the growth of the channel.
• Set up team for success supported by coaching, individual development plans, teamwork, and trustworthy relations.
• Set high-quality standards for the team to represent our brands to consumers and ensure that our customers are adopting the highest standards.

• Support negotiating contracts and implementing the best execution with our gastronomy partners to ensure brilliant execution for our luxury portfolio.
• Responsible for the commercial outcome of our customer universe which are Restaurants, Bars, clubs, and some whisky specialists stores.
• Support your team to engage with high-profile customers within a niche market to ensure we create brand awareness.

• Lead the individual target setting for the Diageo advocacy, content creation, distribution, activation, promotion, and innovation agenda, with a strong focus on the Luxury portfolio in the leading outlet universe.
• Ensure our brands are available and have the perfect visibility in back bars, menus, and on shelf.
• Develop content creation strategy plans in collaboration with the brand ambassadors ensuring great social media visibility.
• Hold your team accountable to tell the heritage and history of the portfolio.

• Develop analytics/tools to continually identify target outlets by opportunities, e.g. Execution standard gaps, over/underperformance, segmentation, activity suitability etc.
• Ensure that your team's work and all initiatives are tracked in our CRM tool.
• Collaborate with business effectiveness to ensure all necessary systems and reports for performance tracking are in place.

• 5 years + of experience in sales within the luxury FMCG world.
• Ability to develop and motivate individuals into a successful team which can present themselves and our products in a way that reflects the luxury brand's image and values.
• Good understanding of P&L.
• Great understanding of the mixology scene, a passion for spirits, and the capacity to deliver strong execution through your team.
• Excellent communication-, and interpersonal skills to develop relationships with internal and external partners.
• Affinity for luxury goods and good understanding about luxury brands and the consumers.

• A fantastic company culture that puts employees and their development first
• A competitive salary with bonus and many benefits
• A great parental leave policy
• ...and of course, THE best colleagues!