Complexities: Solved
BevAssets – aka “the dynamic duo Sam Anderson & Alicia Vargo” – has been an exceptional partner as I build the operating foundation for Arbore Levant Ltd and prepare my premium heritage craft spirit brand for eventual U.S. import.
Their support has extended well beyond conventional consulting: they have worked alongside me across commercial strategy, go-to-market and route-to-market planning, importer-of-record considerations, and account development with a rare combination of practical expertise, out of the box problem solving, responsiveness, and genuine commitment.
For a founder pursuing an ambitious NYC beachhead, their roll-up-your-sleeves, “we’re in it with you partner” approach has been both commercially invaluable and personally reassuring.
Sam and Alicia create the kind of trust, energy, and clear-eyed partnership that turns bold plans into executable ones.
Our Approach
Finovate partnered with the company to design a future-ready salesforce, implementing a new reporting structure and an optimized balance of generalists and specialists. The goal was to maximize synergies while minimizing customer impact. This collaborative effort involved several key steps:
Identify the Current State
Identify the current state of the salesforce at each company, including headcount, organization structure, products sold, territories and customers covered, and compensation design.
Design the Future-State Salesforce
Design the future-state salesforce and analytically pressure-test the resulting changes to the customers, territories, and products covered to ensure a smooth transition.
Manage an Implementation Program
Launch and manage an implementation program in the first year to deliver synergies on an ambitious timeline. This includes migrating to a new organizational structure and a new set of roles and responsibilities, communicating clearly to key stakeholders and identifying quick wins.
The Results
Customer orders remained steady during the sales transition, and financial performance in the impacted business units exceeded internal forecasts.
Sales representatives were shifted toward the future-state, guided by the new organization structure, territories, product coverage, and compensation design in both North America and Europe.
The combined company was also on track toward full integration of sales enablement tools, including revised training programs, rationalized sales IT systems and updated sales dashboards and performance metrics.
Identified net synergies for the third year expected to exceed expectations at 1.5 times the initial target.
Our Expertise Is As Broad As Your Dreams
We’re standing by to tackle your beverage industry barriers.
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