Account Executive, Wholesale - Online (12-month FTC)
London, LND, GB
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Primary Purpose: The Account Executive will join the Online Wholesale Sales team for a 12-month fixed-term contract and support with maintaining and developing key and multi-brand online accounts for Coach and Kate Spade in Europe.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Wholesale to:
- Assist the Account Manager with requests and requirements for European online accounts
- Track sales weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly and produce seasonal trade reports to highlight wins, challenges and opportunities
- Work closely with cross functional teams to manage the order lifecycle: order upload, tracking inbound and outbound shipments, ensuring the smooth shipment of the order book
- Share updated ATS lists on a weekly basis for both brands, recommend swaps and reorders to drive in-season trade
- Develop short-term seasonal plans to meet sell-through targets and present in monthly sell-through meetings
- Participate in trade calls and raise queries/concerns where relevant
- Manage weekly site canvassing to drive trade and in-season actions
- With the support of the Account Manager, communicate with Accounts Receivable on payment issues, claims, and queries
- Support the Account Manager during 4 markets a year across Women’s & Men’s Leathergoods, assist during appointments and manage pre-market preparation (e.g. line sheets, Go to Market deck, imagery)
- Communicate clear deadlines to accounts and manage orders and processing in NuOrder
- Support the Account Manager with planning quarterly and yearly sales forecast
- Own the management of the client database, update cross-functional teams on organizational changes and ensure the correct contacts are used across all teams
- Partner with Wholesale Customer Service to ensure timely deliveries and highlight concerns ahead of time with the Account Manager where relevant
- Liaise with Marketing & PR teams on marketing activations, ensure products are delivered on time, available and ready to go-live in line with marketing timelines
- Partner with Demand Planning and Wholesale Operations on warehouse delivery dates and delays
The accomplished individual will possess:
- Previous experience in a similar role within Wholesale/Sales, or Online Merchandising/Buying
- Highly analytical, strong numerical skills and proven experience tracking and analysing trade/sales data
- Proficient in Microsoft 365, including Excel & PowerPoint
- Highly motivated, ambitious and target driven to achieve sales
- Team player, confident and personable
- A self-starter with the ability to independently manage time and workload effectively
- Strong organisation, communication, and problem-solving skills
What Tapestry can offer you:
- Hybrid working (3 days working from the office, 2 days remote)
- Option to finish early on a Friday (Flex Fridays)
- 1 Paid Volunteering Day per year and opportunities to volunteer with global projects
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Internal mobility & career progression
- Regular Social Events - Seasonal & Cultural
- Equity Inclusion & Diversity initiatives which include employee resource groups & regional inclusion council
Other benefits include:
- 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays (pro rata)
- Tapestry brand discount up to 50% off Coach, Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman
- Private Healthcare with health assessment (Bupa)
- Bupa rewards - Financial wellbeing support and wellness discounts
- Free 24/7 support for family building, fertility and menopause with Maven
- Private Dental Cover
- Eyecare vouchers
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employer Pension Contribution
- Gym discount
Our Competencies for All Employees
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. Visit Tapestry, Inc. at http://www.tapestry.com/
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