Account Executive

Job Title Account Executive

Location: Kildare

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has a meaningful role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value!

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with one of the world's leading beverage alcohol companies? Diageo is excited to invite talented and ambitious individuals to apply for the role of Account Executive for North West. This is a unique opportunity to showcase your skills through individual and group exercises, connect with industry leaders, and potentially secure a position that offers growth, innovation, and the chance to work with iconic brands!

Day in the Life:  

• Strategic Relationship Builder: Build strong, purposeful relationships and effectively support existing customers. Carry out regular business reviews to identify their needs and goals. Create growth plans and implement solutions to drive sustainable growth. 

• Dynamic Communicator: Effectively communicate with customers and internal teams to ensure alignment on goals and strategies. Be adaptable in your communication style to meet the needs of diverse stakeholders. 

• Commercial Approach: Drive the brand distribution strategy to increase the quality and quantity of customer partnerships within your territory. 

• Data Acumen: Ensure all data on your territory is accurate and up-to-date, including territory performance, customer contact details, digital savviness, new/closed outlets, etc. 

• Digital First Mindset: Embrace and leverage digital tools always. Engage both internally and externally on key initiatives and evolving trends.  

• Growth/ Open Mindset: Bring a growth mindset to all that you do. Embrace challenges, learn continuously, and drive innovation for sustainable success.  

• Resilience: Demonstrate resilience in overcoming challenges and persistently pursue long-term goals despite short-term setbacks. 

ABOUT YOU 

• Passionate about sales and to grow a career within commercial  

• Full Driver’s license with at least 12 months active driving experience under a full Drivers License

OUR OFFER

• An inclusive company culture that puts employees and their development first

• A competitive salary with bonus and many benefits

• Growth opportunities

• A great family leave policy …and of course, THE best colleagues!

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for Diageo to thrive and for us to realize our ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.