Sales Assistant: New York City
About The Position
Place Showroom is seeking a driven sales assistant to join our sales team. We’re a full service wholesale women's apparel showroom for leading contemporary and emerging brands. As a representative of Place Showroom, the ideal candidate is outgoing with high energy that thrives in a fast pace work environment. Excellent communication and presentation skills and confident with cold calls and building new relationships. Time management and ability to prioritize tasks timely to achieve deadlines with high volume workload. The candidate must possess strong written and organization skills and perform well under pressure. This is an amazing opportunity to build career working amongst a dynamic sales team. At Place, you will have exposure to work with a wide range of accounts while having the opportunity to build key relationships within the industry.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- Interest in a long term career in wholesale apparel industry
- Customer-service oriented
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Proficient on a Mac computer
- Ability to travel as needed
- Must have valid/current driver's license
Nice To Haves
- Outgoing with high energy
- Thrives in a fast pace work environment
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Confident with cold calls and building new relationships
- Time management and ability to prioritize tasks timely to achieve deadlines with high volume workload
- Strong written and organization skills
- Perform well under pressure
Responsibilities
- PO processing from order entry to shipment tracking
- Participate in trade shows and markets throughout the East Coast
- Participate in product knowledge seminars with Place's brands
- Conduct product knowledge seminars at our retailers
- Scheduling and multi-tasking
- Appointment preparation and showroom floor merchandising
- Preparing for road and in-person appointments
- Liaison between Accounts and Account Executive
- Process orders and other general account management
- Sample coordination
- Administrative ownership – managing on order documents, PO tracking and shipment logs, maintaining updated account information on internal database
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
