At Riboli Family Wines, we’ve spent over a century perfecting our craft—and we’re just getting started. As a four-generation, family-owned winery and one of America’s fastest-growing wine producers, we create brands that people genuinely love, including Stella Rosa, Spritz Del Conte, San Simeon, and San Antonio. We’ve been recognized as American Winery of the Year, but what drives us isn’t awards—it’s the joy our wines bring to tables, celebrations, and everyday moments. Rooted in California and committed to quality, sustainability, and innovation, we’re proud to honor our heritage while shaping the future of winemaking.

Summary

This position is responsible for managing and developing the full Riboli Family Wine portfolio across all channels of trade in Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming; to include education, training, distributor management, and sales personnel. Responsible for field activity with work‑with’s and direct interaction with Off‑Premise and On‑Premise customers to drive current placements and promotions across the Riboli Family Wine portfolio of wines.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Current duties may be changed if job requires and/or additional duties may be assigned if necessary.

- Responsible for directing distributor On and Off-premise management to achieve established goals.
- Manage execution and compliance with the On and Off-premise channels of trade (chain & independents).
- Able to target and influence key customers within the On and Off-premise channel.
- Able to assist the Regional Manager within that state in presenting programming and planning to distributor management & salespersons to assist them in the development of the Riboli Family Wine portfolio of wines.




- Must be able to provide local market needs/tools to assist in the planning/programming by their Regional Vice President.
- Implementation of the Riboli Family Wines On and Off-premise core SKU’s/brands in field.
- Conduct/Participate in monthly, quarterly, and annual formal business planning meetings with key personnel at Distributor level to track progress versus plan and adapt accordingly.
- Submit weekly recaps to Riboli management.
- Circulate/Communicate weekly “Flash Report” update to key distributor personnel.
- Complete and distribute monthly recaps to Distributors to ensure that tertile distribution & volume plans are on track.
- Able to conduct general sales meetings, wine tasting, and educational classes to inform distributor management and salespersons about the Riboli Family Wine portfolio.
- Working in the market with distributor personnel to stay in tune with market conditions and trends and to assist in the placement of Riboli Family Wines.
- To report all findings of market conditions and trends to supervisor Regional Manager.
- Able to conduct wine dinners, wine tasting, and wine seminars with the ability to expound on any wine from the Riboli Family Wine portfolio and knowledge of all wines in general.




- Consistently work to add value to the Wholesaler in helping them meet their business needs with the prime objective of becoming their preferred supplier.
- Able to work within key budget guidelines set forth by Riboli management.
- Must be able to conform to working conditions to meet the demands of the market. This may include working evenings and weekends.
- Travel is necessary to meet job responsibilities as outlined herein.
- Work with top and middle management of wholesalers to identify problems and create solutions pertaining to Riboli Family Wines portfolio.
- Job execution will break into following components:
- 60 % time in the Field (on own, with wholesaler reps or Riboli management)
- 20 % time on Wholesaler concentration (in market or conducting sales meetings / planning meetings)
- 20 % time on Administrative, Preplanning and Follow up.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education, Experience & Skills

- A four-year college degree and/or equivalent work experience enabling the incumbent to perform job responsibilities as required. (Equivalent work experience could include supplier, distributor sales or wine industry management jobs).
- Minimum of 5+ years in the beverage alcohol industry with multiple years of sales experience.
- Good written communication skills. Incumbent must possess the ability to develop and provide all necessary written reports, correspondence and presentations necessary to satisfy job requirements.
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📌 District Sales Manager, CO/KS/WY (Quinte West)
🏢 Riboli Family Wines
📍 Quinte West