Wholesale Manager

Job Description

We are now looking for a Wholesale Manager to join our London Head Office team. This role is offered on a local full time, permanent contract, but travelling abroad during fashion weeks presentation seasons, and/or during Wholesale Marketing international events or store trainings is required.

In this position you will be overlooking the wholesale distribution and administration for our international wholesale partners, inclusive of all our product categories.

You will act as Miista’s brand ambassador and sell our footwear and accessories collections, but also our apparel (a new category for us) to our wholesale partners, supporting them throughout the season. You will work proactively to develop long-term relationships and ensure sales growth with existing clients, as well as prospecting new clients.

This position reports to the Commerce Director,

What you will do

• Create a global distribution strategy per brand category, identifying key markets and new target stockists and partners for new expansion opportunities
• Be responsible for reaching wholesale targets internationally per category and presenting new business while maintaining the existing international wholesale business
• Be responsible for customer negation agreements
• Manage orders and negotiating seasonal budgets per category
• Manage all pre-selling and post-selling sales activities, including processing order confirmations per category
• Ensure client satisfaction at all times, maintaining good relationships with the wholesale partners
• Manage in-store trainings before the collection launches per season in each of the bigger international wholesale partners (travelling required for this)
• Work in collaboration with the Finance Manager and with the Logistics Manager Overseeing deliveries, payments and logistics
• Handling various queries with the wholesale partners, such as short-shipments, mis-picks, re-orders, delivery schedule, after sales service etc
• Weekly review and reporting of sales performance, Sell Through and stock situation within the different markets
• Work in collaboration with our Marketing Team to plan Marketing support to our international Wholesale Partners, as for example store events in collaboration with our Wholesale Partners and Trunk Shows in collaboration with our Wholesale Partners
• Manage the setting up of the seasonal wholesale showrooms both digitally and physically in Paris, New York and London during Fashion Weeks, including managing the budget, coordinating of sales materials,  samples,  etc

 The Ideal Candidate

• At least 5 years of professional experience within wholesale and or retail
• Strong understanding of the designer and contemporary fashion market environment
• Excellent communication, collaboration and relationship-building skills
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• High accuracy attention to detail, and an analytical mind
• Strong negotiation skills
• Self-motivation and performance orientation, with a can-do and hands-on attitude
• Work well in a small team with adaptable personality
• Passion for fashion in general
• Fluency both in English and French
• Highly Proficient with I.T Software such as Word and Excel

We are looking forward to hearing from you

MIISTA’S PILLARS:

CRAFTSMANSHIP MIISTA brings together opposites in deliberate juxtapose; embodying an elegant balance in the unusual through an informed marriage of design, material and craft. All our materials are locally sourced from Italy and Spain. Although we have expanded a lot since 2010, growth has been organic and we’re still an independent company with a small, passionate team - but the core of our vision and success are our craftswo/men in Alicante, Spain; home to a highly skilled shoemaking community that has been upholding tradition since the 19th century. 

COLLABORATION We always strive to continue launching products that offer real value. Real value comes not only from discerning planetary needs and opportunities for progress; but also from exploring the unique strengths created through collaboration. In our Miista sphere we consider the importance of collaborating not only with our crafts(wo)men and suppliers, but with other industry creatives and artists.

CREATIVITY We aim to strengthen our relationships with creatives and friends, whilst constantly innovating within the realms of Miista. But no innovation is possible without people who co-create. We experiment with materials, develop new making techniques and turn our initial sketches into sophisticated but wearable designs. Transforming the unfeeling with emotion, into the familiar: made for life. We aspire to create not only beautiful pieces, but to create content that is thought provoking and allows expression.