Managing Director Luxury Fashion

Managing Director Italy | Luxury Fashion | Interesting Package

Our Client is a luxury fashion company, and we are looking for their Italy's Managing Director, with a solid Wholesale background. We are looking for a manager used to dealing 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)