Sample Coordinator, OTG Boots

7OW Skechers USA Inc. II; California (MO); On-site; USD 32,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Skechers is seeking a Sample Coordinator in Manhattan Beach, CA to manage footwear samples for the assigned division, maintain showrooms, and coordinate sample shipments for events and meetings. You will work with sales reps and product teams to ensure samples are available on time and accurately displayed.

The role requires organization, communication, and the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, with travel by company vehicle as needed.

Qualifications

• Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Product Development, Fashion, or Design preferred.
• 1-2 years professional work experience in an office environment or footwear retail experience.
• Proficient with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point); Photoshop and Illustrator is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain assigned division’s showrooms multiple times a day.
• Organize showroom walls and audit rooms weekly.
• Add new styles to showroom walls and remove outdated ones.
• Ensure most up-to-date sample is in the showroom.
• Create table displays of key styles.
• Prepare showrooms for meetings and photoshoots.
• Coordinate sample shipments and distributions for domestic and international conferences and trade shows.
• Track orders and ETD with Asia offices.
• Fulfill sample requests and provide ETA and tracking information.
• Audit line sheets for product information and images.

Skills

Highly organized

Team player

Verbal communication

Written communication

Multitasking

Physical ability

Driver's license

Willingness to travel

Education

Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Product Development, Fashion, or Design

Tools

MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Photoshop

Illustrator

Job description

WHO WE ARE:

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company®—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

The Sample Coordinator is responsible for managing all of their assigned division’s footwear samples, coordinating sample requests and shipments, maintaining their division’s showrooms with the most complete and correct sample line. This includes prioritizing and distributing samples, and communicating with the team to ensure that samples arrive on time and timelines are kept.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Monitor and maintain assigned division’s showrooms multiple times a day, which includes, but it not limited to:
• Organizing the showroom walls and auditing the rooms once a week.
• Adding new styles to the showroom walls.
• Removing all reduced and dropped styles from the showroom walls.
• Ensuring that the most up to date and correct sample is placed in the showroom.
• Creating table displays of key styles.
• Cleaning showrooms before and after management and account meetings.
• Laying out new development samples based on management’s direction.
• Organize and maintain storage dress shops.
• Overseeing samples inflow and outflow of the storage area and following set guidelines for the divisions dress shop and designated aisles.
• Coordinate sample shipments and distributions for domestic and international conferences, trade shows, and photo shoots which includes, but is not limited to:
• Ensuring that all new samples arrive on time, and are distributed the same day that they arrive in the office.
• Communicating with our Asia offices regarding samples ETD.
• Tracking orders regularly to ensure minimal room for error/delays and working with office services when issues arise.
• Fulfilling sample requests and shipping out the samples in a timely manner.
• Working with the other sample coordinators to manage timelines for packing and shipping samples out for meetings and tradeshows.
• Distribute incoming development, fit, national account, and confirmation samples to the appropriate people.
• Work with sales reps and product team to coordinate the use of “rare” corporate samples and “keep” samples for scheduled account meetings in person and through virtual presentations.
• Work with the Digital Imaging team to ensure all samples are shot and displayed online.
• Properly dress lace each sample prior.
• Create invoice for the box of samples sent over to be photographed, labeling style, and type of photo shot needed for the sample.
• Fulfill all sample requests and provide ETA and tracking information.
• Audit line sheets for correct product information and images.
• Track NA and Sales samples and maintain a log for all styles in the division.
• Work directly with the Product Manager for a list of NA/SLS/INA/CAN/AKS samples and order accordingly.
• Print development reports for Merchandisers and VP, track development when necessary.
• Monthly rotational sample coordinator duties such as:
• Creating an invoice and shipping out daily samples to China from the Production and Design Department.
• Distributing mail to recipient’s desk from dedicated mail drop off trays in the office.
• Driving boxes of samples from one office to another to get photographed, and distributed back to their respective teams.
• Laying out production samples that have been sent to sales reps to be approved by Product and Design team.
• Covering the receptionist desk while the receptionist is at lunch.
• Removing the office “IRA” boxes once they are filled.
• Other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

• Must be highly organized; able to take direction and work independently.
• Must be a team player with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to work in a professional manner.
• Must have proven ability to prioritize and met deadlines, provide a high level of attention to detail, and handle multiple deadlines simultaneously.
• Must be able to move and lift boxes of footwear samples between buildings.
• Must be able to travel by company vehicle between the Skechers office buildings through Manhattan Beach.
• Must possess a valid Driver’s License with a clean driving record and be insurable under company’s standard liability policy, as issues by company’s current insurance carrier.

REQUIREMENTS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Product Development, Fashion, or Design preferred. 1-2 years professional work experience in an office environment or footwear retail experience. Proficient with MS Office (Outlook, Word, Adobe Acrobat, Excel and Power Point) Photoshop and Illustrator is a plus but not required.

The pay range for this role is $23.00-$25.00/hr USD.

About Skechers

Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment.

Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.

Reasonable Accommodation Applicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing [e-mail].

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily.

The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.

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Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories.

Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

From footwear to apparel and accessories, Skechers has a product for you and your family.

Learn more about our many product offerings here.