About Enotria Founded in 1972 by Remo Nardone as an Italian specialist wine distributor, Enotria has grown over the past 53 years to be one of the UK’s leading premium wine and spirits distributors. Working with a diverse portfolio of over 300 exclusive wine producers and over 1,500 spirits producers, spanning unique family estates to iconic names, leading brands to market innovators, Enotria has established one of the most comprehensive and exclusive ranges of premium wines and spirits of any distributor in the UK.
Acquired by Majestic Group in April 2025, Enotria continues to operate as a standalone business, serving all drinks industry channels by leveraging its premium on-trade, off-trade and DTC market expertise to build long-standing relationships. Enotria's 10,000-strong client base includes fine dining, specialist bars, hotels, independent retailers, large multiple retailers, travel operators and prestigious events venues, such as Bancone, Gaucho, Rick Stein, L’Enclume and Hotel du Vin/ Malmaison.
Job: Regional Account Manager
Contract: Permanent
Sales South / Central
North Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, North Bucks - Field based
Reporting to the Area Manager of the South/Central on-trade regional sales team, this is an exciting role and will suit someone who is looking to progress in sales management, giving them the ideal opportunity to ‘own and develop’ the agreed region.
The candidate will ideally have a track record in sales / sales management with excellent relationship building skills and a proven ability to over-deliver against stretching targets. Ideally, they will have a knowledge and passion for wine, great presentation and analytical skills and the ability to negotiate are essential. Experience writing wine lists will be ideal.
The role is to specifically grow business across the on-trade sales sectors (restaurants, gastro and traditional pubs, hotels, brasseries and independent retail), treating the agreed sales area as your own and achieving the agreed Regional Sales goals.
Developing strong links internally with all E & C functions such as Customer Orders, Sales Operations BDM’s, Area Managers, Finance, Supply Chain, Trade Marketing/Brand Managers and our Logistics team.
This role offers the opportunity to work with some fantastic wine producers, and some of the best and most exciting customers in the South. Current accounts
Manage and develop existing business through having active customer plans which provide marketing and promotional support, training and other relevant initiatives which will ensure customer retention and, where relevant, increase Enotria's share of their business.
Work with other Account Managers, BDM’s, Key Account Managers and Directors of Sales to ensure full coverage of all accounts in a given area.
Ensure an appropriate levelof service for a given channel in a given area, based on the service level agreement, and intervene to ensure any issues are addressed.
Visit accounts at an appropriate frequency for their value to ensure competitors do not take over the account.
Maximise the value of the account through pricing versus volume trade-offs.
Provide product advice to the account, including choices to maximise consumer value, appropriate menu structure, product portfolio management and product quality differentials.
Organise and coordinate tailored services and engage categoryexpert support to deliver the services.
New business
Draw on new business leads for the region during key tenders.
Share customer leads in a cooperative and proactive manner as makes best sense for the Company amongst relevant colleagues.
Identify and secure new customers through building relationships, constructing, and presenting a motivating proposition bespoke to each prospect, and back it up with a commercial deal appropriate to the scale and potential of the customer which meets margin expectations for that category of customer.
Develop the channel network and intelligence.
~ Achieve financial targets, whilst planning to exceed targets.
~(Snr) Coach Sales Account Managers in the team
~ Prepare and present proposals to current and potential accounts.
~ Work with the Finance department on all commercial and analytical aspectsof customer management and to work closely with the Credit Control team to minimise bad debts, which are deducted from margin for performance evaluation and bonus calculation.
WSET Level 2-3 or equivalent qualification (WEST L4 Desirable)
Excellent commercial awareness
Understanding of margin management