Tasting & Events Manager (Wine Jobs: Wine Retail & Sommelier)

  The Wine Society

  Hertfordshire, England

Main duties:

 Build, develop and oversee the delivery of a varied Tastings and Events Programme that fulfils the requirements of the Tasting and Events Strategy

 Define, monitor and report progress against the budgeted targets for the programme

 Manage and develop the team who deliver the programme

 Oversee all aspects of event coordination, including organising staff and buyer attendance and generating ticket sales.

 Ensure that each event is hosted with confidence, knowledge and authority; in practice the role-holder is expected to host a large proportion of the programme.

 Organise supplier attendance at tastings, acting as their host on behalf of The Society

 Encourage and oversee supplier visits to Stevenage to host staff tastings.

Additional Duties:

 Monitor and learn from competitor activity

 First Aider

Other:

This is a hands-on role which requires:

 Regular travel and overnights away in the UK

 Driving, usually in a company van

 Evening and weekend work

Key Relationships outside the team:

 Buying team

 Suppliers

 Volunteer Staff

Accountability:

 For the standards of service experienced by members attending Society

Tastings and Events

 For the annual departmental expenditure of the Tastings and Events

department.

 For the sales revenue generated by ticket sales and incremental sales

generated by tastings.

 For the recruitment, management, development and welfare of the Tastings

and Events team

Health and Safety:

All employees have a responsibility to carry out their work in a safe manner, reporting any incidents or problems to their Team Leader or Manager and taking all reasonable steps to minimise risk to both self and others.

Variation:

The Society reserves the right to make reasonable variations or amendments to the duties and responsibilities of the post holder at any time according to the needs of the business.

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