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Location: Leicester
Type: Permanent
Industry: Ladieswear
Job Ref: TGM1861
The Company:
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Sales Account Manager to join a reputable and established supplier of fashion to high street retailers.
The Role:
- Update and manage critical paths.
- Ensuring purchase orders are correct before sending to factory
- Follow order status with factories / far-east offices
- Provide administrative support to the team
- Communicate with customers and Far East teams via email and telephone
- Chase samples ensuring they meet deadline requirements.
- Steam and package samples for delivery to customers
- Preparation of showroom for customer meetings, hanging, collecting samples.
- Manage the Garment Technical function in line with critical path requirements
- Assess technical issues, which could delay the critical path
- Create risk assessments for all styles on order and provide a list of test requirements based on the product and buyer manuals
- Ensure the following fittings are carried out with the in line with the customer requirements:
- Maintain effective communication with overseas technologists in all technical and quality requirements for each style as required by the customer
- Travel may be required within the UK and overseas
- Maintain good working relationships, an open dialogue and effective communication, both within the team and at all levels with other teams/departments within the Company.
Skills Required:
- Excellent MS Office skills especially Word and Excel, with some PowerPoint an advantage
- Willingness to learn with excellent communication skills
- Hindu speaking would be advantageous
- Capable of working under pressure and on own initiative with a flexible approach to the workload
- Strong organisational skills
- To work as part of a small team – be a team player
- Self-motivated
- Willingness to undertake some travel in the UK
- Experience in the garment / fashion business with knowledge of production cycle in factories in China, Bangladesh & India – desirable.
- Have demonstrable ability to work to critical deadlines
- Technical ability with knowledge of garment make-up and production methods with knowledge of fit on mannequins and pattern alteration.
- Have a good working knowledge of customer quality standards
- Strong interpersonal and people management skills
- Full UK Driving Licence – preferable