Key Account Manager - Fashion Influencers

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Key Account Manager - Fashion Influencers
adidas – New York, NY
PURPOSE
We are seeking a dynamic and innovative individual to join our team as a Key Account Manager, Fashion Influencer. You’ll be responsible for driving sales with our top fashion influencer customers, cultivating strong account partnerships, and utilizing your in-depth knowledge of consumers and retailers to identify their needs and stay ahead of current and emerging trends. You will lead a team that truly understands and celebrates sneaker culture. You'll collaborate with both local and global accounts and teammates, participate in industry meetings and events, and amplify our digital communications to drive strategic growth and product opportunities. Additionally, you'll be part of a collaborative and diverse team that values innovation, creativity, and professional development.
Key Accountabilities

• Deliver on time reporting and forecasting for all required reports and documents to appropriate parties
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with all internal departments and assigned key accounts based on respect
• Using strong business acumen and retail math abilities drive the top and bottom line number for the account.
• Manage, track and resolve all customer compliance issues regarding freight claims, charge-backs, shipping violations, RTV and DFA
• Leverage market and competitor trends along with buyer preferences at the category level to build strategic sales plan
• Based on specific product and brand direction for focus categories at account lead the sell in and especially sell through process in collaboration with marketing and retail
• Develop strategic sales plan for complex retail accounts leveraging account insight and goals to achieve sales targets and align with brand and category objectives.
• Collaborate with marketing and retail activation partners to drive sell through programs at the account
• Drive account growth and profitability by assessing and building on areas of momentum; capitalize on product/pricing opportunities and course correct with innovative sales tactics to improve sales performance with account.
• Manage all credit claims and issues to resolution

Knowledge Skills And Abilities

• Ability to enhance consumer interaction/experience at our retail partners.
• Ability to apply financial data to make decisions and influence outcomes. This includes margins, retail math, forecast/projections, probability and statistical inference, fractions, percentages, ratios, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and influence outcomes with both internal and external contacts.
• Strong understanding of retail sales practices
• Ability to portray a confident and winning attitude in challenging business interactions.
• Ability to lift and carry samples and bags weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Strong presentation skills. Effectiveness in a variety of formal presentation settings within and outside of the company. The ability to command attention and manage group process during the presentation. Can change tactics midstream when something isn't working without audience noticing. Ability to understand and incorporate all levels of brand marketing plans and ideals in to presentations
• Ability to effectively interact with all levels of business via phone, written communication and in person
• Ability to tell a holistic story verses taking a transactional approach.
• Agile and confident communication skills with internal and external business partners.
• Advanced computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Passion for sport.
• Merchandising and planning skills, and the ability to create merchandise plans based on sell through targets.
• Thorough knowledge of key metric levers and how to use them to create increased profitability and sales for both adidas and its’ retail partners.
• Experience working across a wide range of business partners on projects
• Ability to make “on the spot” decisions
• Ability to travel up to 50%
• Proven background that reflects being results-oriented
• Ability to lay out practical and logical assortment plans based on retail space, inventory turn, and sell through

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in field sales, preferably with key accounts within a consumer goods company in the sporting goods industry. The equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
• Four year degree preferably in Business, Marketing, Advertising or a related field.

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