Wine & Beer Buyer - Remote

Wine & Beer Buyer – Remote

What is Good Pair Days?

I’m glad you asked! Well a few years ago, a world-famous sommelier, a tech genius, and a total wine newbie walked into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but was actually the start of our great little company. Aside from wondering what a ‘dry wine‘ actually meant, the newbie had a question for them: did they want to be part of a mission to help everyone — from beginners to aficionados — discover and experience the joy of exceptional wine, tailored to their tastes? To remove the confusion and jargon, to make wine accessible and enjoyable for all? They did. We’ve been pairing good wine to good people ever since.

In practical terms : We’re a 10 year old online wine+ business founded in Australia that prioritises customer happiness and wine education. We launched in the UK in late 2021, and we’re now ready to push things to next level.
We’re a tech-focussed retailer with big growth ambitions. We love all beverages (yes, we’ve diversified beyond wine), we love our members obsessively, and we love finding ways to surprise and delight them.

It’s our aim to build the most consumer-friendly wine retailer in the world and we just might need your help to do it.

So let’s get down to business…

• We need an organised, articulate, hard working beverage expert to help grow our amazing range and tell our adoring community all about them
• You’ll be a great fit if you’re growth minded, love accountability and autonomy, have an empathic nature, love solving problems and thinking independently.  The above are our team values… so if you were wondering what it’s like to work with us, there you have it!
  Last but not least, you’ll be willing to pull your sleeves up and join a hard working, high performance team culture.

Skills

• Your written communication skills are approaching expert level. Whether it’s internally, dealing with suppliers or writing amazing content for our readers, you capture our brand voice and offer clean copy on time.
• You’re highly analytical by nature, and have a solid understanding of our company’s financial goals and how your work affects this. You’re one with excel and google sheets, and can analyse growth, budgets and sales reports to aid future buying.
• You’re extremely well organised with systems, checks and backups for everything.
• It goes without saying, you have an experienced and well-honed palate, and are excited about the varied styles of wines and other beverages we offer.
• Your connections within the UK drinks industry are second to none – you know the game – the importers, the sellers, the writers and some of the drinkers.

Experience

• A highly trained beverage professional, with astute ability to assess wine
• Multiple years experience in a wine buying role, either on trade or retail
• Experience with direct overseas imports a bonus

Scorecard

Month 1:

• • If you’re not across the tech requirements needed for the role, we need to you to dive down deep and become an expert ASAP. Nothing scary, just the basics needed for a modern, digital business.
  • We need to you to learn all our various reporting mechanisms to slot into our company systems seamlessly and assist with daily wine swaps, out of stock recommendations and weekly delivery checks.
  • We need to you get up to speed on all our various systems and processes as quickly as possible, and for you to take responsibility for building out our growing wine range straight away, including placing orders, writing tasting notes and uploading information.
  • You’ll be involved with our ongoing education program – wine news, grape updates, bottle of the week. You’ll contribute to newsletters, blog posts and the like.

Month 2:

• • So you’re buying now, and stock is arriving! We need to start formulating ideas to make it unique – find the wines that others don’t!
  • You’ll start looking at our diversified beverage range – beers and spirits – and begin sourcing those too.
  • You’ll be taking on some customer service responsibilities, answering questions around wine range and deliveries.
  • You’ll expand your educational role, taking on some content writing for our online education Guide.

Month 3

• • We need to you to start diving into bigger projects such as own label development. Working with some of our existing suppliers to negotiate terms and pricing for large orders of own label wines. Working with the creative team to develop a brand identity and bring the project to life.
  • We need to you to be pushing the company founders for more responsibility and be asking for ways you can help drive our company forward.

How you’ll be measured

• Beverage ratings
• Beverage COGS
• Stock availability and range

What’s in it for you?

• This little journey of ours is really just getting started and you can join it while we’re still relatively young. Which means professional growth and career advancement will be in your hands.
• We’re a remote company. Which means you can pretty much work from anywhere in the UK. We’re also a results first company which mean remote work is perfect for us.
• We pay above market rates for the right level of experience
• Wine. Did we mention wine? There’s wine with your name on it.

Where to now?

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact our Chief Wine Officer Banjo Harris Plane on [email protected] with your CV and cover letter to learn more.