My client is a major luxury womenswear brand to the stars! They are looking for a Wholesale Manager to join their Central London Head Office.
Reporting into the Wholesale Director, you play a pivotal part in driving sales across the brand, where you will work with customers in the UK and Internationally for each sales campaign.
You will prepare reporting across the brands performance from a sales and sell-thru perspective, and support the Director across budget forecasting. You will work cohesively with the other departments in the brand such as Production and Logistics, to ensure orders are managed and delivered on time.
If you would prefer to be part of a smaller team, where you have the opportunity to really grow and enhance your career, then this is the role for you.
Wholesale Manager- Luxury Brand- The Role
- Responsible for area account management, managing day-to-day operations while building strong partnerships with existing and potential wholesale customers to achieve sales budget targets
- Supporting global B2B wholesale sales planning and strategy in line with business goals
- Understanding international markets, identifying partnership opportunities, and building growth strategies while maintaining consistent brand positioning
- Preparations for seasonal sales campaigns in NY, London, Milan and Paris, supporting with uploading of the collection on JOOR, ensure all assets are ready in a timely manner and arrange collection trainings with agents
- Management and servicing Agents for various territories, monitoring payments and deliveries, supporting with customer queries, and managing sample movements post market
- Analysing seasonal performance, conducting sell-through analyses, highlighting quantitative and qualitative sales feedback to be presented to management on a weekly basis
- Track seasonal STGs for majors, updating RTV tracker weekly to proactively monitor projected EOS results
- Conduct regular store visits and arrange seasonal trainings for key accounts
- Support with budget forecasting, ensuring budget master sheet is set up and updated throughout the season
- Working with Production, logistics and finance teams ensuring in-season monthly shipping targets are met, managing risks and opportunities including re-cuts, reorders, returns, payments and terms of contract.
- Working closely with Wholesale Coordinator to support day-to-day operations and management of accounts
- Support with other ad hoc sales department tasks
- Be a great ambassador for the brand
- Reporting to the Director of Sales
Wholesale Manager- Luxury Brand- The Person
- 3-5 years of fashion wholesale experience in international luxury markets
- Strong analytical and numerical skills – systems expertise – ability to run and analyse data
- Advanced skills in Excel, proficiency in Zedonk, Joor, MS Office
- Excellent command in English, additional language preferred but not essential
- Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills
- Highly motivated, ambitious with entrepreneurial approach
Please apply with your updated CV to m.coote@peoplemarketing.co.uk
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