Qualifications

• A business-related degree or equivalent.
  

Experience and Skill

• 2 years’ experience in analytics and at least 2 years in a field sales role
  
• Strong attention to detail.
  

Execution Excellence

• Identify the everyday minimum execution standards for the customers we work with and understand the 365 Essentials principles and how they translate into these execution standards.
  
• Navigate a sales call/ appointment using the clearly defined and proven commercial selling skills to understand customers’ needs and match them to the business propositions.
  
• Selling and listing new and existing products and brands.
  
• Use proven selling techniques to deliver propositions that exceed customer expectations, satisfy needs and create ‘win, win, win’ opportunities to ensure distributor coverage and call frequency targets are achieved.
  
• Persuasive selling to deliver a customer proposition.
  
• Commercial Acumen - have a good understanding of the commercials (spend, volume, margin, etc) to make good business decisions that drive profitable growth for Diageo and its customers.
  
• Use the processes tools and plans provided to ensure brilliant execution by building customised plans for priority accounts against nominated growth drivers and ensure that the plans are executed brilliantly at the point of sale.
  
• Ability to execute, track and improve adherence to the minimum execution standards by segment as defined by the market to drive growth.
  

Controls and Compliance

• Adhering to the compliance measures put in place, as articulated in the various global and local standards, policies and all applicable manuals including the Code of Business Conduct.
  
• Adherence to Internal process controls, GAR and External Audit reviews.
  
• Partnership with the Commercial Operations team, to ensure awareness and adherence to all applicable compliance matters, including changes to existing policies/guidelines as well as newly introduced policies/guidelines.