Womenswear Key Account Manager

Location: London
Department: Sales
Location: London
Salary: £54,000 – £66,000 + Car + Bonus

A World Renowned Premium Brand

Women’s Key Account Manager – Footwear

The company

The business designs, markets and sells men’s, women’s footwear to customers worldwide.

The Role

Develop strong relationships with current & new key account customers within the women’s footwear sector.
Enhance business partnerships through strong sales account plans which includes product, distribution & marketing approaches which reflect the brand aspirations by becoming the retailer’s brand of choice.
Research, analyse and evaluate financial, marketing factors to capitalize on opportunities and minimize effects of competition within women’s footwear sector.
Build Strategic Partnerships on a “win/win” basis.
Work closely with Country Manager/Marketing Manager, to help deliver powerful women’s brand marketing campaigns with key account customers.
Manage the process to final execution involving all relevant parties.
Analyse open to buy, stock turns and sell through in order to impact sales plans with key account customers, and to win growth opportunities.
Work with product team to develop ranges targeted at key accounts.
Coordinate training, visual merchandising support for key retail partners via field service team. This is to strengthen brand awareness & the products attributes at retail & to support the business objective of ‘winning at retail’.
Work closely with Country Manager in relation to future sales plans, brand & product needs.
Help with management of sales planning and product forecasting.
Work to achieve the required sales and gross margin targets as defined by the brand plan
Manage to budget stock levels and ensure that sales are to forecast and plan.
Perform duties consistent with the company’s policies & targeted objectives for the year relating to company’s appraisal scheme.
Perform other duties as required/assigned by Country Manager or Senior Management team. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required.

Must have experience selling women’s footwear to key accounts
Key accounts management experience with sales experience in athletic and/or fashion footwear environments within the UK
Previous experience of working with our key accounts would be a significant advantage
Able to demonstrate that they have significantly grown a key account business
Implemented targeted marketing campaigns for key account businesses
Experience of working on product development/product line management
Provable negotiation and influencing skills
Knowledge & experience of the apparel industry for future role development would be of benefit
A degree/qualification in business, marketing, communications or equivalent work experience
Good oral and written communication skills.
IT proficient including Power Point, Excel and Word.
Effective presentation and public speaking skills.
Footwear product knowledge Travel required.

Due to the high volumes of responses to online advertisements, regrettably we are only able to acknowledge successful applications. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.