Temporary Wholesale Showroom Assistant

Primary Purpose:
The Showroom Assistant will play a pivotal part in the set up and management of our European showrooms and EMEAI Wholesale market, including creating digital tools and sample management. This candidate will also support the Client Operations manager in various seasonal initiatives to drive the Coach Wholesale EMEAI business and support the sales team.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency to...

- Manage sample flow throughout the season from Service Providers to European showrooms. Liaising with DHL and suppliers when issues arise.
- Work with VM, Buying and Sales team to ensure successful showroom set-ups and breakdowns across Coach and agent showrooms.
- Support the facilitation of buyer appointments including setup of meeting space and guaranteeing showroom standards are maintained throughout market. Support sales team with samples for virtual market appointments when required.
- Day to day running of London showroom including managing market calendars, ordering supplies and managing stock levels.
- Coordinate facilities maintenance in London Showroom and manage all invoicing and POs across London and Munich showrooms.
- Managing sample requests across wholesale and marketing for key clients. Virtually support Munich showroom with sample requests.
- Manage ecommerce image and copy process, ensuring key wholesale accounts are set up for online seasonal product launch.
- Assist in creation of digital tools for market launch and market appointments
- Daily communication of updates to Sales team and key CW EMEAI partners throughout market
- Train and oversee seasonal showroom temps for in-person markets.
- Assist in the maintenance of both internal and external (B2B) communications platform, creating content on campaign launches, key business updates and monthly newsletters.
- Manage regular file uploads to internal communications platform, liaising with key cross functional partners within the business to ensure timely upload
- Support Client Operations Manager in various seasonal initiatives including monogramming machine maintenance
- Work with Wholesale Operations team and construction to maintain CW EMEAI master store file.

The accomplished individual will possess...
- A real desire to work within the fashion industry and an understanding of the luxury goods market
- A proactive attitude to work and have advanced multi-tasking skills
- Clear administrative/ organizational skills
- A natural interest in building relationships

The outstanding professional will have...
- A good knowledge of Microsoft Office in particular Excel & Powerpoint
- European Language skills - German, French, Italian desirable
- Prior knowledge of Photoshop & NuOrder

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
- Managerial Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
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