Kenton Bentley Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Directly manage solutions to grow assigned accounts business, while driving results that deliver market share growth for Sazerac brands. - Build brands by utilizing consumer and category trends to educate customers, solve problems and maximize sales.- Lead in-store selling, merchandising, marketing and execution for accounts.- Develop mutually valuable relationships with assigned customers, through understanding their key needs and requirements.- Plan and implement programs to deliver distribution, merchandising, display, and retail promotional objectives.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

- Responsible for a mid-west region of 13 U.S. states, in which I provide support to state sales teams through submitting quotes and addressing concerns raised by state regulators with regard to company products.- Register and renew all Sazerac and subsidiary alcohol labels to state regulatory agencies to ensure state compliance.- Obtain and renew annual state licenses and sales permits to allow company alcohol sales.- Facilitate support to internal and external teams to deliver accurate product information and state pricing.- Utilize company systems and software, such as COGNOS and AS400, to maintain state buy lists and update NABCA code information, which helps reduce and meet the State Violation Suspended Orders KPI.

Frankfort, Kentucky

- Planned, coordinated, and documented corporate and consumer events, ranging from 10 to 700 attendees, under the Distillery Events Team.- Analyzed advertising equivalency reports to measure potential marketing opportunities for Sazerac brands.- Published news releases for national awards received by the Distillery and various Sazerac brands.- Comprised reports tracking social media presence and engagement using Facebook Analytics to visualizeyear-over-year comparisons.- Produced content for Instagram and Facebook accounts that aligned with brand identities, and monitoredweekly spirits industry blogs using Meltwater and Google Analytics- Built targeted media lists containing national and regional contacts that were then used for news releases.

Richmond, Kentucky

- Contributed daily to the Student Life Social Media Account copywriting and scheduling.- Designed graphics utilizing Adobe programs, to be used in all publications including print and digital.- Created, scheduled and advertised events in chalking, t-shirt giveaways and flyers to ensure awareness of approximately 30 campus-wide events.

Richmond, Kentucky

- Assisted in developing a Greek Life accreditation program for 28 fraternity and sorority chapters totaling over 1,700 students.- Served as Greek Life Liaison for the Eastern Kentucky University Progress newspaper to ensure coverage for Greek Life events.- Conducted benchmarking research, which consisted of reaching out to other universities and their different programs implemented on campus.- Designed a booklet using Adobe InDesign, showcasing the 14 fraternities in the campus community, which was then provided to over 500 students.

- Supervised 85 high school students- Planned, managed, and organized campus-wide activities for Upward Bound students- Led daily wellness checks and manage interpersonal conflicts with the residences of the camp