A representative for the Horeca sector in a specific region, focused on visiting establishments, reading wine lists, and advising on missing products. The focus is on premium wines for star restaurants, bistronomy, boutique hotels, and brasseries, but also for village cafés, family restaurants, and beach bars. The goal is to find the right wine that suits the establishment, the audience, and the budget.
What you do
- Actively prospect restaurants, hotels, brasseries, and cafés in your region
- Taste with owners and sommeliers and contribute ideas for the wine list
- Acquire new clients and follow up on existing ones
- Map out your region with the organization and determine where opportunities lie
What they ask Hard skills.
- Knowledge of wine, enough to convince at the table and substantiate your advice
- Experience in the Horeca sector, as an owner, sommelier, front-of-house manager
- Knowledge of the region, its establishments
- Preferably your own network: chefs, sommeliers, operators, hoteliers
- Dutch is self-evident, French and English are an asset
- You work as an independent contractor
Soft skills.
- Independent and entrepreneurial: you manage your own agenda and do not wait for instructions
- Strong in human contact
- Not afraid of prospecting
- Accurate in your administration
- Respect for every client
- Perseverance and patience
- Driven by results
What they offer.
- An independent collaboration
- Variable remuneration
- A portfolio of wines you can speak about with conviction
- A small organization with short lines of communication
- On-the-road coaching by the manager
- Support from a central location for quotes, delivery
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