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As a fast-growing company, Honest Tea is always on the lookout for energetic and enthusiastic people who can help grow the company. Employees must be flexible, able to work independently and share our commitment to social responsibility. Honest Tea is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its employees. Listed below are job descriptions for positions currently available with the company. If you are interested in applying for a position, send a resume and cover letter to jobs@honesttea.com

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2012 Summer Road Warrior Program
Openings in:

Seattle, WA

San Francisco, CA

Los Angeles, CA

San Diego, CA

New York City/North New Jersey/Long Island (Nassau)

Mid-Atlantic (Washington DC Metropolitan area)

Overview:
We are looking for employees who will be "road warriors" promoting Honest Beverages in retail stores and at consumer events as well as being apart of our in-store merchandising sales team. Road Warriors will seek out guerrilla marketing/sampling opportunities wherever thirsty people can be found.

Event types include (but are not limited to): Consumer (outdoor concerts, film festivals, marathons, road races, and parades), Retail (college block parties, grand openings), In-Store Demos (sampling at Whole Foods, Fairway, etc.) and Guerilla (sampling on the street in key areas of major cities)
Marketing Responsibilities Include:
  • Driving to all location sites within specific region
  • Setting up and breaking down all equipment required for each event
  • Promoting the Honest Tea brand at each event

In-Store Merchandising includes (but is not limited to): hanging POS materials in retail accounts, resetting cooler shelves, placing glide racks and refurbishing coolers.

Do you have what it takes to be a Road Warrior? Please watch the "Road Warriors 2011" video to find out:

Sales Responsibilities:
  • Within the assigned market, execute merchandising, sampling, store resets, placing glides and POS
  • Open new accounts
  • Participate in route rides, crew drives, and kick-offs within assigned territory and in other territories (travel as required)
  • Placement of coolers, hard point of sale and soft point of sale in accounts
  • Perform merchandising functions

Overall Requirements:
  • Ability to work long hours including nights and weekends and overnight travel.
  • Must be able to work a 5 day work week including weekends for the entire summer (10-12 weeks).
  • Must be an Undergraduate student.
  • Ability to lift 30 pounds at a time.
  • Good driving record and daily access to a vehicle.
  • ENTHUSIASM AND ENERGY AND WILLINGNESS TO WORK HARD.

Honest Tea is an Equal Opportunity Employer, competitive salary offered. All majors welcome. All final candidates will be asked to complete a background check including driving record, education, and criminal records.

Send all resumes to summerintern@honesttea.com. Please include a statement telling us why you would make a great "road warrior" and the city where you want to work.

No phone calls or third party recruiters please!

2012 Summer MBA Internship
Openings in:

Bethesda, MD

Honest Tea is the nation's top-selling organic bottled tea company with a mission to make great-tasting, truly healthy organic beverages sweetened with less sugar and fewer calories than most bottled beverages. All varieties are USDA-certified organic and all teas are Fair Trade Certified™. Honest Tea has been continuously recognized for its impressive growth and mission-driven business practices. In addition to being named one of The Better World Shopping Guide's "Ten Best Companies on the Planet based on their overall social and environmental record," Honest Tea was also listed as one of PlanetGreen.com’s “Top 7 Green Corporations of 2010,” received Greenopia.com's coveted 4-Leaf Rating as "the greenest beverage company" for the third year in a row and was recently ranked by The Huffington Post as one of the leading "8 Revolutionary Socially Responsible Companies.” The Coca-Cola Company purchased Honest Tea in March 2011.

Overview:
Exclusively through Net Impact, Honest Tea offers a 10-12 week summer internship for a hard-working, enthusiastic, and creative MBA student interested in gaining hands-on experience in a mission-driven, consumer products company. The intern will be immersed in Honest Tea’s fast-paced, ever-changing environment with new and exciting challenges thrown their way each day. Interns will be exposed to all sides of the business from sales to operations. Ideal candidates for this position are open-minded and adapt well to dynamic environments.

Past summer projects have included creating an Honest Food bar alongside Honest Tea’s Operations, Marketing and Graphics department, and working with Sales to bring the bar to market. Other MBA intern projects have included publishing the company’s annual Mission Report as well as detailing Honest Tea’s sustainability efforts and challenges.
Summer Internship Responsibilities Include:
  • Coordinate and participate in guerilla-style marketing, promotions and sales
  • Assist with new product development
  • Develop marketing materials
  • Coordinate corporate partnerships
  • Develop new sales relationships
  • Create retailer/distributor incentives and promotional programs
  • Research material sourcing and become involved with the manufacturing process

The intern should be open to being “on the road” and traveling in order to work with distributors and/or on consumer promotions for a portion of the internship. This is a great opportunity to help an entrepreneurial enterprise continue its rapid growth and to learn about managing a company from many different angles. (Faint of heart need not apply.)

Applicant Requirements:
  • Resume
  • Cover letter
  • Must be an Undergraduate student.
  • Two writing samples (can be from school or previous job) OR one writing sample and one brief constructed response (BCR). BCRs should showcase your creativity and writing ability and should be approximately 500 – 600 words
  • 1) If you were to create a new line extension at Honest Tea, what would it be? How would you market it?

    2) If you were to create the next marketing campaign for Honest Tea, what would it be and why? Please be green-minded and consider sustainability!

To apply for Honest Tea’s MBA summer internship visit www.netimpact.org

Marketing - Brand Manager – Honest Tea (PET & Glass) and Honest Ade
Openings in:
Bethesda, Maryland
Overview:
The Brand Manager is responsible for creating, managing and leading the successful execution of brand-building and volume-driving programs, including marketing campaigns, program development, materials creation, new product launches, and initiatives that support Honest Tea’s product lines (both PET and Glass formats). The ideal candidate works hard, has great project management skills, is a self-starter, and is looking to be a part of an exciting, fast-paced, innovative company that’s making a difference.
Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):
  • Develop breakthrough marketing plans and programs for Honest Tea’s flagship Tea and Ade product lines:
    • Analysis, planning, and strategy development across all retail channels.  Includes competitive analysis, positioning, packaging, new products, pricing, promotions, pricing. and communications.
    • Integrated, on-brand ideas and lead program development.  Includes partner outreach and management.
    • Develop motivating and instructive Operating Plans, sell sheets and positioning documents for major programs and brand initiatives to be used by Honest Tea’s field team (either to use as is or adapt as needed for bottler/distributor or customer sell-in.)
  • Close collaboration with Sr. Promotions Manager and Creative team on all stages of program development and execution
  • Post-program evaluation and recommend improvements for future initiatives
  • Establish and maintain a keen understanding of the Honest consumer (demographics and psychographics; attitudes, usage, motivations and needs in order to improve trial and loyalty)
  • Close collaboration with fellow CCNA brand marketing teams, the VEB team and/or CCR channel teams, when appropriate. (e.g, strategy).
  • Understand and manage volume and profit targets for product lines, both nationally and regionally
  • Provide solutions and suggest creative alternatives that support brand strategy when targets are off plan
  • Support company mission around health & wellness, environmental sustainability, and social responsibility.
  • Manage all project timelines including managing expectation of others internally and key external partners.
  • Monitor marketing budget for Tea and Ade product lines
  • Develop and maintain relationships with Marketing agencies and strategic partners
  • Ensure the Tea and Ade product lines are communicated and represented with the highest integrity across all parts of the marketing department
  • Successfully work with all other departments within Honest Tea including DSD Sales, Natural Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations and Human Resources

Requirements:
  • Excellent project management skills – a real “doer”
  • Bachelors Degree in Business or Marketing (or related field)
  • 5+ years experience in marketing, brand management and retail programming experience in the non-alcoholic beverage and/or consumer products industry preferred
  • Experience with accessing/analyzing Nielsen and Consumer Attitude & Usage information
  • Experience working with multiple departments implementing one strategic vision
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communications skills (verbal/written) with the ability to interact effectively internally as well as with external contacts
  • Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Office
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Must excel in multi-tasking within a fast-paced organization


Honest Tea is an equal opportunity employer and offers benefits to full-time and part-time employees including, medical, dental, vision, PTO, 401(k) match and wellness programs. All final candidates will be asked to complete a background check including driving record, education, employment and criminal records.

Send all resumes to jobs@honesttea.com. No phone calls or third party recruiters please!

Area Marketing Manager
Openings in:
LA/Orange County CA
Overview:
The Area Marketing Manager will be responsible for building brand loyalty in assigned territory by executing marketing programs that connect consumers with the brand. This position is responsible for successful identification and execution of promotional events, guerilla sampling and retail demos. Full product knowledge and understanding of product benefits is required.

The ideal candidate works hard, is a self-starter, and is looking to be a part of an exciting, fast-paced, innovative company that’s making a difference.
Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):
  • Act as ambassador for the brand by sampling product at key events, demos and guerilla samplings
  • Oversee and manage team of brand ambassadors while remaining within allocated budget
  • Support retail accounts and help drives sales to retail partners through sampling
  • Manage event logistics including pre-event preparation, set-up and break down, greeting event manager, gathering a crowd and greeting and educating the audience
  • Deliver timely event recap
  • Maintain accuracy of product inventory
  • Use good judgment when sourcing consumer events
  • Create excitement and positive experience for consumers
  • Successfully work with all other divisions within Honest Tea including Natural/Specialty Food, Marketing, Finance, Operations and Human Resources

Requirements:
  • Bachelors Degree in Business or Marketing (or related field)
  • 1 to 2 years relevant management experience in events, promotions, media, consumer marketing or community marketing
  • Must be able to work a Wednesday – Sunday schedule
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communications skills (verbal/written) with the ability to interact effectively internally as well as with external contacts
  • Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Office
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities


Honest Tea is an equal opportunity employer and offers benefits to full-time and part-time employees including, medical, dental, vision, PTO, 401(k) match and wellness programs. All final candidates will be asked to complete a background check including driving record, education, employment and criminal records.

Send all resumes to jobs@honesttea.com. No phone calls or third party recruiters please!

DSD - Regional Sales Manager
Openings in:
Northwest (The territory covers the PacNW, NorCal, Rocky Mountain and Swire territories)
Overview:
The Regional Sales Manager will be responsible for building the Honest Tea brand through management, sales, merchandising, sampling, and retail support. The Regional Sales Manager must assign, train, motivate, manage, and evaluate the business activities of Honest Tea subordinates and distributors within assigned territory to deliver maximum sales, executional results, and customer satisfaction for the company’s product lines. She/he will develop sales objectives,  prepare and execute product programs, and analyze and evaluate the status of the company’s products as well as the competitive environment on an ongoing basis.  

This position requires a hard working, self-starter, manager who is looking to be a part of an exciting, fast-paced, innovative company that’s making a difference. Room for advancement available.
Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):
  • Develop and manage the progress of assigned distributor organizations’ (and field personnel, when appropriate) performance in the selling and merchandising of the company’s product lines either directly or through the area sales managers within the region
  • Monitor ongoing business trends to effectively forecast sales volumes for each distributor market on a monthly basis
  • Develop and present creative and results oriented presentations to distributors and/or key accounts
  • Maintain customer contact in conjunction with distributors to expedite resolution of customer problems/complaints and to improve overall customer relations, sales volume, and profile in the marketplace
  • Successfully work with all other divisions within Honest Tea including Natural/Specialty Food, Marketing, Finance, Operations and Human Resources
  • Maintain discounts percentages (17% and under) and budget for the division while achieving case sales goals
  • Review and evaluate distributor performance in achieving sales and merchandising objectives through specific objectives for distributors that are clearly articulated, mutually agreed upon and effectively measured
  • Actively participate in the development and implementation of sales programs, schematics, and all other such brand development projects that relate to field execution
  • Conduct market audits in all classes of trade to assess the company’s products’ position in the marketplace; monitor competitive activity and developments
  • Maintain a high level of interaction with key trade customers to ensure customer satisfaction, educate on product line and category developments and trends, as well as maintain a full understanding of key customers’ organizations
  • Maintain thorough and current understanding of existing and projected product lines, category trends of key trade customers, of competitors and the marketplace in general
  • Successfully work with all other divisions within Honest Tea including Natural/Specialty Food, Marketing, Finance, Operations and Human Resources

Requirements:
  • Must have prior non-alcoholic beverage experience and be a proven team leader.
  • 5 to 7 years experience in sales and management, preferably in the beverage and/or consumer products industry
  • Ability to organize and lead management teams successfully
  • Ability to travel as well as work long, flexible hours, including nights and weekends, as required
  • Excellent driving record and insurance, required
  • Personal vehicle to use, if necessary
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communications skills (verbal/written) with the ability to interact effectively internally as well as with external contacts
  • Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Must excel in multi-tasking within a fast-paced organization
  • Work well both independently and as a team
  • Strategic and committed to success


Honest Tea is an equal opportunity employer and offers benefits to full-time and part-time employees including, medical, dental, vision, PTO, 401(k) match and wellness programs. All final candidates will be asked to complete a background check including driving record, education, employment and criminal records.

Send all resumes to jobs@honesttea.com. No phone calls or third party recruiters please!

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