This established international womenswear supplier is recruiting for a Junior Account Manager for its London office. You will be part of a multi-functional team dedicated to the design, development and production of womenswear for high volume, grocery and fashion retailers.
This is a great opportunity to be part of a fast paced commercial office with showrooms and owned offshore manufacturing!
Junior Account Manager - Responsibilities:
- Dealing with customer / accounts on all aspects of buying cycle and being first point of contact from the customer, dealing with all queries.
- Management of critical path from sampling through to bulk production to FOB or landed date. Ensure production/delivery is on time.
- Working with the design team to create ranges for each season /customer, with mini ranges in-between seasons ensuring levels of business and development of each account to grow business.
- Working on costings with dept on products. Looking where we can get savings and be competitive.
- Meetings with fabric suppliers looking at ranges, prices, lead-times.
- Working closely with the factories on getting prices and better lead-times.
- Ensuring all approvals on fabrics and linings are signed off on a timely basis
- Working with offshore teams to develop/source new fabric, competitive prices
- Ensuring all paperwork and submissions are correctly organised
Junior Account Manager - Skills and Requirements:
- Educated to degree standard
- Three years plus relevant experience in the clothing industry
- Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent organisational skills & accurate and attentive to manage the detail.
- A confident, proactive approach, capable of working effectively in a team under pressure in a demanding fast paced environment
- Proficiency in MSOffice: EXCEL is essential.
- Ability to interact effectively with customers, suppliers and colleagues.
- Applicants must have full Right to Work in the UK.
To apply please send your CV to c.turner@peoplemarketing.co.uk
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We regret that due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our vacancies, if you do not hear from one of our consultants within 5 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.