Account Manager VF Brands

About the role: 

We have an exciting role available for a Account Manager to join our VF Team in VIC. Reporting to the Head of Sales your responsibilities will include delivering sales of relevant brands to assigned Wholesale Customers / Accounts. Looking after Vans VIC & TAS and Timberland across Australia. 

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Sell In future ranges and deliver the brand strategies, product stories and key commercial objectives for each season to the accounts.
• Manage the order book continuously and sell available free stock to drive positive stock management and achieve sales outcomes for the wholesale business.
• Consistently monitor and report on sell through of all wholesale accounts.
• Ensure an efficient process for sales, finance, marketing, operations, and customer experience is achieved. 
• Deliver consistent communication with key personal at all accounts. This should be done through Buying/Showroom visits, in store visits, website views, phone calls, video calls, emails and texts as required.
• Help to support the negotiation, completion and overall delivery of Accent Trading Terms and the wholesale businesses Key Commercial objectives.
• Remain relevant to the brand being sold and the customer being serviced as well as staying up to date with the overall marketplace.
• Manage costs of doing business.  Account Managers must be diligent on all costs and act within budget and expectations for travel, samples, marketing, entertainment, helping to ensure profitability for the brand and wholesale business.

To be successful you will ideally have:

• Must have experience – 3 Years Plus of Sales / Account Management within branded footwear/apparel
• Understand retail, apparel & footwear product, supported by sufficient business skills.
• University degree in business with a sales focus is preferable.
• Industry Exposure – Sales, Retail, Sports, Apparel, Account Management.

At Accent Group Limited we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and inclusion. We believe in the diversity of our people across age, gender, identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical and mental ability. We strive on creating an equal employment environment where everyone from any background can be themselves. The Accent Group acknowledges, and pays respect, to the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of the land. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori people.