Associate Manager, Wholesale Marketing

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Job Title: Associate Manager, Wholesale Marketing

 

Summary: The Associate Manager, Wholesale Marketing is responsible for managing and executing wholesale initiatives. This role drives alignment between marketing strategies and wholesale channels to ensure consistent brand messaging and vision.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison to major global wholesale accounts for marketing programs
• Partner with the internal Wholesale team on in-store activations and media amplification in order to maintain brand positioning
• Drive strategic initiatives with partners to ensure wholesale is a vehicle of customer acquisition, conversion, and brand awareness
• Organize/distribute seasonal assets to external partners via internal/external platforms
• Responsible for supporting the tracking, billing, and cross-checking of invoices and program budgets, and delivering on-target results.

 

Skills and Abilities Required

• Ability to multi-task projects with equal priority, anticipate issues, and provide creative solutions
• Excellent attention to detail, superior communication, and follow-up skills adapted for internal and external communication at all levels of seniority
• Fashion, media and trend savvy with a focus on digital innovation in the luxury space; should be a digital native with a passion for discovering out of the box solutions to support marketing programs
• Excellent team player and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with all levels both internally and externally with partners, vendors, publishers, wholesale accounts, etc.
• Organizational skills, timely delivery of projects
• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
• Project management skills

 

Education and Experience Required

• 3+ years of relevant work experience; a combination of work experience and education will be considered
• Media, brand, and wholesale marketing experience is a plus
• Tech savvy; fluency in PowerPoint and Excel is a must

 

 

Our Competencies for All Employees

 

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably hand