Date: Sep 3, 2024
Company: E. & J. Gallo
Why Gallo?
With a global portfolio of over 100 unique wine and spirits brands, we are the largest family-owned winery in the world. Apply Today! Our Brands. Your Future.
The Wine Ambassador acts as a representative at lunches, dinners, special events, and wine/spirits tastings, sharing your knowledge about our exceptional products and company story. Leads engaging educational tours of our vineyards and winery, offering guests an immersive experience with wine/spirit educational overlays and receptions. In this role, you will educate a diverse audience, from senior sales management, wine merchants, and trade groups to general winery staff, consumers, and community groups, on our company history and technical wine knowledge. Your expertise will shine as you research, develop, compose, coordinate, and host trade visitor programs, ensuring each guest's experience is "best in class." Provide expert answers to questions about winegrowing, winemaking, seasonal vineyard and winery activities, and the distinctions between varieties, brands, regions, and producers worldwide.
What You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree plus 2 years of hospitality, public relations, communications, sales experience, marketing, or teaching and educating others reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 1 year of Gallo Winery hospitality, marketing/marketing services or sales or Gallo Distributor marketing or sales experience.
- Candidate is required to have a valid driver’s license, a safe driving record and reliable vehicle (if applicable) at the time of hire. This position will undergo a motor vehicle check (MVR) to confirm a history of safe and responsible driving. If needed, candidate must obtain the appropriate state driver’s license based on the position’s location within 30 days of hire.
- Required to be at least 21 years of age.
- Required to frequently lift and move cases of product which weighs up to 40 pounds.
- Required to work evenings, weekends and occasional holidays.
- Required to perform strenuous outdoor physical activities (noted below under physical demands section).
- Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
- Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
What Will Set You Apart:
- Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of wine hospitality experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
- Gallo Sales District Manager or Gallo Marketing experience.
- Wine or spirits industry experience.
- Public speaking experience.
Compensation:
- Hiring Range Posted: $30.63 / hr - $45.91 / hr
- Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by factors such as the education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
Perks & Benefits:
- This position includes a competitive benefits package.
- Please click here to view our full list of benefits or click here to watch our video.
This position will be based in the location(s) specified in the job posting and requires working on-site with no telecommuting option. You will be expected to live within a commutable distance.
Gallo does not sponsor for employment based visas for this position now or in the future.
To view a full job description, please click here.
Anticipated close date: September 20, 2024
Recruiter: Jolene Connolly
Job ID -104882
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Gallo’s policy is to afford equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees and not to discriminate on the basis of race, traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles (such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law (including cancer and predisposing genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, familial status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation (actual or perceived), transgender status, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, reproductive health decision making, age, military or veteran status, domestic violence or sexual assault victim status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Nor will Gallo discriminate based on a perception that an individual has any of the foregoing characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.
Gallo will comply with state and local laws prohibit discrimination for lawful out-of-work behavior, such as off-duty use of cannabis away from the workplace (subject to federal and state law exceptions), the existence of non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids as determined by a drug screening test (subject to federal and state law exceptions).
We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gallo is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at 209.341.7000.
Gallo is enrolled in the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verifying program and will use the program to verify the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees as required.