Brand Account Manager - Jimmy Choo, Versace & Dolce & Gabbana (Midlands)

ESSILORLUXOTTICA GROUP; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Brand Account Manager to drive sales across the Midlands. In this role, you'll be responsible for enhancing customer relationships, delivering targeted sales, and ensuring effective territory coverage. You will play a crucial part in promoting iconic eyewear brands and ensuring customer satisfaction through training and support. Join a global community focused on innovation and excellence in the eyewear industry, where your contributions will help redefine customer experiences and drive brand success.

Qualifications

• Strong customer service and sales experience required.
• Effective planning and scheduling for customer meetings.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales by meeting customer needs and building relationships.
• Conduct presentations of new collections to clients.

Skills

Customer Service

Sales Skills

Effective Planning

Team Collaboration

Knowledge of Eyewear

Job description

If you've worn a pair of glasses, we've already met.

We are a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames, and sunglasses. We offer our industry stakeholders in over 150 countries access to a global platform of high-quality vision care products (such as the Essilor brand, with Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest and Transitions), iconic brands that consumers love (such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear and Costa), as well as a network that offers consumers high-quality vision care and best-in-class shopping experiences (such as Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Salmoiraghi & Viganò and the GrandVision network), and leading e-commerce platforms.

Join our global community of over 190,000 dedicated employees around the world in driving the transformation of the eyewear and eyecare industry.

Your #FutureInSight with EssilorLuxottica

Are you willing to pioneer new frontiers, foster inclusivity and collaboration, embrace agility, ignite passion, and make a positive impact on the world? Join us in redefining the boundaries of what's possible.

Job Title: Brand Account Manager - Jimmy Choo, Versace & Dolce & Gabbana

Location: Midlands

Contract: Permanent

Your role

As a Frames Brand Account Manager, you are responsible for the delivery of targeted sales for your territory across the Midlands.

Main responsibilities:

1. Guarantee sales in your area by delivering individual targeted sales volumes, values, return rates, and brand distribution and penetration objectives by effectively identifying and meeting customer needs;
2. Develop business by building relations with customers and visiting them periodically;
3. Effective territory coverage - you will ensure frequency of visits and a consistent level of service for all customers in accordance with company guidelines;
4. Driving customer recommendation - ensuring effective brand, product, and visual merchandising training for your customers' sales and/or dispensing staff to ensure that our customers not only buy our products, but actively recommend them;
5. Deliver presentations of new & seasonal collections to clients at least two times per year for registration of orders in accordance with adopted annual plan of the Company;
6. Follow up new leads and referrals resulting from field activity;
7. Support local and international events and trade marketing and visual merchandising initiatives;
8. Keep product range at clients' outlets, quality and quantity of stock and store supplies under control, ensure that orders input is done in a timely manner and control on orders execution;
9. Identify and resolve client concerns related to EssilorLuxottica products and services;
10. Guarantee respect and correct deployment of commercial policy.

Main requirements:

1. A 'can do' attitude - be performance aware and performance responsible, take full ownership for personal and team results while continually striving to find new ways to improve;
2. Effective planning - implementing an effective customer contact strategy: demonstrating a consistent, and effective customer meeting schedule and routinely scheduling future appointments at the end of each call, building effective 'bottom up' customer goals in order to deliver objectives;
3. Being an active team member - creating internal and external business partnerships, showing willingness to share ideas and actively supporting other members of the team and other company functions.
4. Ideally knowledge of eyewear, sports enthusiast, experience selling branded sports eyewear/clothing/equipment and/or have an understanding of the Optical Industry/world.
5. Have a full, clean driving license (essential);
6. Have demonstrable customer service and selling experience, ideally in a field sales environment.

Recruiting process:

Our recruitment process may vary; If you are selected, you will be contacted by our recruiters to guide you through the specific steps for your application.