Duties
Your new companyA luxury skincare brand at the forefront of innovation.
Your new roleThis brand is looking to recruit a highly experienced Senior Account Manager to progress into a Head of Sales role. Your duties will include:
- Develop and executive retail strategies and plans for their customers, guiding expansion into new store and markets within existing and new accounts
- Expand the store team presence and head up the account management function
- Identify new growth opportunities, sell brand and product propositions and negotiate commercial plans and terms
- Lead and implement trade and promotion plans
- Lead regular store visits and ensure merchandising guidelines are adhered to
- Analyse all sales and retail data
What You'll Need To Succeed
- Relevant or able to step up to the role from a leading brand as a senior commercial contributor, ideally in the luxury market.
- Strong communication and presentation skills with attention to detail for creating sound commercial arguments.
- Experience working with their own commercial P&L.
- Entrepreneurial and willing to roll up your sleeves, work fast and solve problems.
- Growth mindset and comfortable learning and doing what it takes to make things work.
- Collaborative and supportive leader and team member.
- Able to manage complexity with structured problem-solving; very comfortable with numbers, but also pragmatic.
- Strong leadership skills and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of motivating and guiding teams and external partners towards success.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and decision-making skills.
- Deep understanding of the luxury market dynamics and consumer behaviour.
- Experience of managing key luxury channels and partnerships.
- Must be comfortable travelling in the UK and very occasionally abroad.
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