Requirements: English
Company: Open Executive Search & Selection - Milan & London
Region: Cremona , Lombardy
Market Director Italy | Luxury Fashion | Interesting Package
Our Client is a global luxury fashion company, and we are looking for their Italy''s Market Director. We want to meet candidates with a solid Wholesale background and you need to be fluent in Spanish and in English. We are looking for a manager used to deal with high-end brands in a truly competitive environment.
Responsibilities:
- Create the commercial sales strategy to achieve both short term and long term commercial targets
- Identify and develop wholesale business opportunities
- Collaborate with key accounts to achieve growth
- Provide commercial insights on the collection and support for merchandising
- Follow and manage calendar deadlines for the wholesale department
- Responsible for designated wholesale accounts to ensure the development of relationships, timely deliveries, successful performance, and proper representation of the collection and the brand
- Leading and planning sales campaigns for the collections including retailer capsule collections
- Daily communication with existing accounts and worldwide sales agencies.
- Drop-planning through communication with in-house production department and warehouse to ensure timely deliveries
- Order confirmation, Invoicing, and accounts receivable management
- Research and monitor all markets to discover new retailers and potential partners and evaluate current accounts in our sales pipeline
- Analyze sell-through reports and transform insights into actions
- Collection training for sales staff
What we are looking for:
- Solid experience with luxury fashion wholesale
- Fashion wholesale customer network and knowledge
- Direct experience with the fashion industry, including wholesale companies, retail companies
- Strategic business planning, sales negotiation, brand positioning, customer relations, KPI control, and logistics.
Your Skills:
- Strong skills in business planning
- Excellent business analytical skills
- Excellent sales and negotiation skills
- Building and maintaining timelines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent skills in customer relationship management (CRM)