Senior Sales Account Manager (Maternity Cover 8-12 months)

Paper Mache Tiger is looking for an enthusiastic applicant with proven experience in designer wholesale for a maternity cover role.

As a sales account manager you will work under the sales director and company director to manage your brands to achieve sales targets, build relationships and work towards exciting sales growth for all brands at Paper Mache Tiger.

Duties will include, but not limited to:

·         Account/ Client management – designers, suppliers, buyers

·         Diary management – buyers and designers

·         Selling collections – seasonally

·         Seasonal preparation support – i.e. brand strategies

·         Product development support – i.e. seasonal feedback documents

·         New business support

·         Cold calling

·         Working as a team with other sales staff, managers and director(s)

·         Comprehensively updating databases on a regular basis

·         Management of interns

·         Ensure that all necessary materials for each sales season are ready in a timely manner (samples, line sheets, look books, pricing, etc.)

·         Assistance in building and developing partners/brands

·         Admin support

·         Take and process orders, negotiate payment and delivery terms.

·         Distribution support – inventory stocktaking

·         In-store training activity

·         In-store visual merchandising

·         Liaising with PR external departments (in-store and brand PR)

·         Processing orders

The Ideal Candidate

·         Minimum 2 years designer wholesale experience with a passion for sales and building relationships

·         Knowledge of fashion seasonal calendar and deadlines

·         Excellent communication skills – written and verbal

·         Enthusiastic and hardworking

·         Strong knowledge of Office software

·         Knowledge of JOOR preferable

·         Strong sense of initiative

·         Ability to work calmly under pressure

·         Ability to work in a close team

·         Ability to work directly with assigned designers

·         Honest and hardworking

·         Multilingual preferred but not essential

Salary and package on application.