Sales Assistant: New York

Place Showroom•New York City, NY

2d•$25 - $30

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 organizational skills and perform well under pressure. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to PO processing from orders, sample coordination, and general assistance to our sales team. The candidate may participate in trade shows and markets throughout the East Coast. The candidate will also participate in product knowledge seminars with Place's brands. This is an amazing opportunity to build a 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
2+ years experience in an wholesale apparel sales environment
Proficient in Microsoft Excel
Ability to travel up to 50% and valid driver's license

Responsibilities

Account analysis
Scheduling and multi-tasking
Appointment preparation and showroom floor merchandising
Preparing for road an in-person appointments
Liaison between Accounts and Account Executive
Manage and analyze selling reports
Process orders and other general account management
Sample coordination for com buys, coop and editorial features
.com product audits: ensuring styles go live online timely and all style information and photography is accurate and at brand standard
Administrative ownership – managing on order documents, PO tracking and shipment logs, maintaining updated account information on internal database