Job Posting: Assistant Sales & Marketing Manager for Bedell Cellars

Bedell Cellars is looking to hire a new Assistant Sales & Marketing Manager. The position combines wine club management with development of our most upscale and sophisticated customers--both retail buyers plus wholesale customers like sommeliers and restaurants.

Candidates will be expected to:

Marketing

• Conduct external tastings and events in NYC and Hamptons to drive brand awareness (e.g. City-Meals-On-Wheels in Rockefeller Center)
• Develop and maintain wine club website and quarterly newsletter
• Work with other management staff in developing wine club promotions & incentives
• Train, oversee and report on tasting room staff wine club incentive program

Operations

• Write five year plan, including goals for sales, new member sign-up, and annual retention/attrition
• Assemble and ship wines quarterly assuring timely fulfillment of member & VIP orders
• Forecast wines for future shipments and manage wine club inventory allocations
• Develop and maintain database system to track contact info, buying history, visits, favorite wines, customer profiling
• Complete weekly and monthly wine club, sales, brand building and compliance reports

Hospitality

• Solicit and host weekend VIP tours and tastings (some weekend and night work required)
• Develop concierge/attendant relationships with upscale customers and top sommeliers in NYC
• Create and execute tailored events and promos to drive sales and build upscale brand relationships

Salary etc. will be commensurate with experience.

If you are interested, please contact Bedell's COO, Trent Preszler, directly.

Comments

[cassandra calwell]

Hello from Morton's Steakhouse!

My name is Cassandra Calwell. I work for Morton's Steakhouse in Stamford CT. I have a degree in Communications from Old Dominion University in Norfolk VA where I played college basketball. I just got back from Napa where I was truly inspired and I'm interested in becoming a wine maker or possibly becoming a wine sales rep. I've attached my resume and hope to hear from you soon.

Thank you for your time,

Cassandra Calwell

Cassandra Calwell
[email protected]
(757) 581-8762
Current Address Permanent Address
30 Danner ave
Harrison, NY10528
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Objective To obtain an entry level position in wine sales.

Education Old Dominion University-Norfolk Virginia. August 2004
Major: Bachelor of Science in Communications.
Minor: Sports Management.

Computer Skills: PC and Mac formats, Final Cut Pro 6, Motion, Shake, Live Type, News Edit (grass valley editing system) Power Point, Photoshop, Excel, Word.

Morton’s Steakhouse Server February 2008-present
§ Serve the best steak and wine available to high end clientele.

Related Assistant Producer 2006- present
Experience World Wrestling Entertainment
§ Responsible for writing creative scripts for shows on WWE.com. §Shooting and editing my own shows for WWE.com on Final Cut Pro 6 system and News Editing system (Aurora HD).
§Responsible for assisting on shoots and conducting interviews with celebrities and athletes.
 § Editing creative and concise TV packages and pieces for
WWE.com.
§ Spearheading new creative story ideas and show ideas for both
the internet, broadband and mobile sections of our department.

Bonefish Grill “High end seafood restaurant owned by Outback Steakhouse” Server 2006-2007
§ Serve the best seafood and wine available to high end clientele.

Production Assistant 2004-2005
ESPN Entertainment
§ Responsibilities included coming up with comprehensive story ideas, highlight supervision and editing. Supervising and helping with live TV editing and shooting. Writing comic and informational scripts for both ESPN NEWS and ESPN SportsCenter.

2002-2004
Experience Old Dominion Student Athlete
§ Lead our team to both conference championships as well as team GPA’s.
§ Helped our team make it to the NCAA tournament both in 2003 and 2004.
§Helped our community through fund raising, visiting local hospitals, as well as leading special camps for Down’s Syndrome children. Also helping clean up our environment by suggesting to our coaches that we should lead a campus clean up to not only to help local wildlife, but make our campus beautiful.

Hobbies

§Watching all different types of sports. Studying to become a Sommelier. Going to shows on Broadway and travel around the world. I also keep up with my athletics through working out and playing basketball.