Trade Marketing Manager

We are proud to be the largest family owned and family-run wine importer in the UK. We’ve been selling premium wine to restaurants since 1964 and our expertise has grown along with our portfolio of award winning wines from around the world including Antinori, Ridge and Vega Sicilia. The wineries we represent are like us – progressive and fiercely independent – and we proudly supply their wines to our extensive customer base.

Based in London, the successful candidate will have an excellent understanding of the trends and key challenges affecting the wine category in each sector.

Using relevant insights, and industry soecific data, the Trade Marketing Manager will manage channel marketing and key customer marketing. You will focus on the development and delivery of inspiring, value-adding and effective activations and promotions on our wine brands.

The ideal candidate will work on corporate marketing initiatives to further strengthen Berkmann Wine Cellars as a premium wine supplier and manage both channel and key account marketing.

As well as developing and executing annual trade marketing plans, they will have the ability to drive sales and gross profit across our key agency wines ensuring that the key brand messages are effectively & clearly delivered to the customer on time and within budget. They will be a key point of contact for the sales team regarding new pitches and will work on marketing aspects of trade events, such as the Annual Portfolio Tasting.

You will need to have trade marketing experience, (preferably but not essential) within the drinks industry. Be able to work independently on your own initiative, be commercially minded with a solid numerical understanding, applicable to business challenges, as well as have excellent communication skills and computer literacy.

If you have a demonstrable skill set and a genuine interest and passion for wine, with a WSET level 2 qualification as a minimum, then we would like to hear from you!

Offer

• Salary range £40k-£50k; dependant upon experience

• 25 days annual leave rising to 26 days after 5 years’ service and 27 days after 10 years’ service, plus bank holidays

• Company pension

• Annual £250. contribution towards Dental Costs

• Generous staff discount on our wine

• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

• A bottle of wine on your birthday and Berkmann anniversary

• £500 referral scheme

Working Pattern

This role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday (09:00 – 17:30pm) but the individual must be flexible according to business needs. 3-4 days in our office in Exmouth Market, the remainder are work from home.

HOW TO APPLY - Please e-mail vacancies@berkmann.co.uk.

We cannot consider your application if you do not have the legal right to work in the UK. You must also satisfy the required knowledge and experience criteria detailed above.

Equal consideration will be given to all candidates, irrespective of their gender, race, disability, marital status, religion, age or sexuality.

No Agencies Please - We thank you for your interest in working with Berkmann Wine Cellars, however, we have our own internal HR and Recruitment team who support our recruiting needs. We will not pay fees or acknowledge any CV's supplied to Berkmann Wine Cellars unless you have been briefed on the role by a member of our HR Team. Thank you for your understanding in advance.