sales internship (Californie)

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Planet Wine is a young, successful importer and distributor of fine wines based in San Francisco, California.
The company has been created in 2007.
One year later, Planet Wine has a portfolio of 70 wines (French, Italian and Domestic). They are distributed on the Californian market (restaurants, retailers, small chain stores and websites).
For more information, visit our website www.planetwineus.com.

The company is looking for a full time Intern to be part of our team.

The position within the company is “Sales Coordinator” with a 9 month minimum contract starting Spring 2009.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
1/ Sales
- Visit existing customers in the Bay Area
- Promote and sell our wines
- Train staff
- Organize tastings with customers in stores
- Open new accounts…
2/ Business Development & Back office
- Create a database of prospects
- Participate to selection of wines
- Marketing & PR: Create press releases for the new wines, create sales materials, organize trade tasting.
- Inventory management
- Customer service

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
We are looking for students in LAST YEAR of business school or equivalent.

- Bachelor degree
- Excellent verbal/ written communication skills in English
- Good knowledge of the wine industry
- Ability to work independently and juggle multiple projects. You will be working by yourself most of the time. You have to be entrepreneur
- Excellent organization: make appointments, organize your weekly meetings, etc…
- Enthusiastic, high energy
- Clean driver license
- Proficient with MS Office applications such as Word, Excel
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Wages: $1,000 a month for 9 months + bonus depending on results
Visa will be reimbursed at the end of your internship by the company

Please e-mail a cover letter and resume with subject line “Sales Coordinator” to:
nathalie@planetwineus.com

Please label your resume and cover letter with your name: e.g. resume_NicolasLeblanc.doc/ letter_NicolasLeblanc.doc.




Réf. Vitijob : ref_4259_20081118
Contrat : Stage
Pays : Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Région : International
Date : 18/11/2008
Contact : Nathalie Haulin
Owner