Jim Sweeney
Partner
- Role
- Head of Sales, Partner at Humboldt Distillery
- Location
- St Helena, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jim Sweeney
Extensive experience driving sales success in the Wines & Spirits industry through Wholesale, Direct-to-Consumer as well as in-market trade and consumer events. Proven Sales & Leader having successfully built best-of-class sales teams. Responsible for recruiting, training, and leading National Sales teams for several beverage alcohol industry leaders including Constellation, Huneeus Vintners, Vintage Wine Estates and the \'The Quixote Collection\'. Indepth understanding of wines & spirits marketing, pricing, programming, sales analysis and overall metrics management for wine and spirits.Successful market introduction/expansion of many notable brands including Humboldt Distillery, Quintessa, Faust, Illumination and seamless sales integration of winery acquisitions including Quixote, Clos Pegase, Cosentino, Simi, Ravenswood, and Flowers. Brand creation and launch of La Tarasque. Focused, street-level field presence combined with a guerrilla approach to sales promotion resulting in unparalleled brand success including numerous appearances on The Restaurant News Top 10 most selected wines, outperforming competitive wines across ACNielson scans and other industry metrics.
Experience
Head of Sales, Partner
May 2016 — Present
Humboldt Distillery, the best selling organic vodka in CA. Located in Fortuna, Humboldt County, CA, we produce organic vodka, organic rum, spiced rum, whiskey, and \'Humboldt\'s Finest\' cannabis-infused vodka.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Communication, Advertsing
1980 — 1984
National University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General
1990 — 1992
Skills
- Salesforce Training
- General Management
- Strategic Hiring
- Wine Tasting
- Pricing
- Public Speaking
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Wineries
- Winemaking
- Strategic Human Resources Leadership
- Food
- Microsoft Word
- Beverage Industry
- Wine
- Marketing
- Wines and Spirits Sales and Leadership
- Financial Analysis
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Wine & Spirits Industry
- Sales Growth
- Sales Management
- National Sales Training
- Brand Strengthening
- Sales Operations
- Pricing Strategy
- Customer Service
- Sales&Marketing
- Brand Performance
- Management
- Strategic Planning
- Brand Management
- Microsoft Excel
- Powerpoint
- Marketing Strategy
- Strategic Partnerships
- Hiring Personnel
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