Digital Wholesale Assistant

This position provides support to the Digital Account Manager to successfully achieve and surpass the sales and profit objectives of the digital wholesale team. This individual will assist the AM during all sales campaigns, and daily tasks to drive the business, and will be a key support contact for e-commerce wholesale accounts. This role requires a self-starter, with strong problem solving abilities and excellent communication skills.

Sales Support:

• Responsible for assisting in hitting monthly shipping goals
• Develop close working relationships with the operations and customer service team to track and maintain POs to ensure they are shipped on time and in full; Be able to communicate monthly shipping status to AM
• Communicate on a daily basis with buying office counterparts on matters relating to PO confirmations; shipping status and sales
• Aid in identifying swap and chase opportunities in season to ensure shipping budget is met
• Analyze weekly and monthly selling reports and be prepared to offer suggestions based on customer need and availability.
• Coordinate sample distribution to and from accounts.

Digital Support

• Walk the site of Digital Wholesale partners on a weekly basis to ensure a consistent customer experience and identify content opportunities
• Responsible for all on-site copy and product attributes, providing digital wholesale partners completing attribute templates and providing digital wholesale partners with all data as needed.
• Aid Account Manager in execution of digital advertising campaigns and digital marketing activations.

Market Preparation

• Assist with showroom set ups, and breakdowns and become familiar with the showroom and product (groups, colors, prices)
• Maintain organization of sample closets, and log all samples sent out of the showroom to customers and trade shows.
• Assist AM in putting market prep packs together for buyer including line sheets, CADS and seasonal selling.

·       Assist AM post market to organize notes and buy updates, and prepare orders for order entry.

• Work in conjunction with the Account Manager during market appointments and provide presentation support.
• Perform all other duties as assigned and required.

• A minimum of 1 year wholesale, e-commerce or other similar retail experience required.
• Amazon experience is a plus.
• Excel proficiency required. Word, Outlook, Salesforce, NuOrder experience a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills needed, as well as the ability to form interpersonal relationships
• Must be able to multi-task, pay great attention to detail, and exhibit strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Individual must be outgoing, well organized, and passionate about product and selling.
• Must be able to lift, carry, or otherwise move objects weighing up to 15 pounds.
• College Degree required.

Play as One Team:

• Showing respect towards everyone
• Commitment for the team’s work and decisions

Play with Elegance:

• Striving for excellence
• Treating others with fair play and humility

Play by Daring:

• Having the courage to speak up, experiment and take initiative
• To explore new opportunities

Play with Tenacity:

• Constantly seek continuous improvement
• Learning from our failures

At Lacoste, we’re committed to building the best team we can. We hire for potential and support every team member through each step of their career development. Building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive space for our team to think differently and push the status quo is incredibly important to us; and we strive to use these guiding principles as the foundation for how we interact with each other, how we build our business, and how we hold ourselves accountable to our core values.

* This job description is not intended to be exhaustive.  They can be changed orally or in writing at any time by the discretion of management.  We as Lacoste associates must also always ensure that all functions of our position are represented with our core values.

This position provides support to the Digital Account Manager to successfully achieve and surpass the sales and profit objectives of the digital wholesale team. This individual will assist the AM during all sales campaigns, and daily tasks to drive the business, and will be a key support contact for e-commerce wholesale accounts. This role requires a self-starter, with strong problem solving abilities and excellent communication skills.

Sales Support:

• Responsible for assisting in hitting monthly shipping goals
• Develop close working relationships with the operations and customer service team to track and maintain POs to ensure they are shipped on time and in full; Be able to communicate monthly shipping status to AM
• Communicate on a daily basis with buying office counterparts on matters relating to PO confirmations; shipping status and sales
• Aid in identifying swap and chase opportunities in season to ensure shipping budget is met
• Analyze weekly and monthly selling reports and be prepared to offer suggestions based on customer need and availability.
• Coordinate sample distribution to and from accounts.

Digital Support

• Walk the site of Digital Wholesale partners on a weekly basis to ensure a consistent customer experience and identify content opportunities
• Responsible for all on-site copy and product attributes, providing digital wholesale partners completing attribute templates and providing digital wholesale partners with all data as needed.
• Aid Account Manager in execution of digital advertising campaigns and digital marketing activations.

Market Preparation

• Assist with showroom set ups, and breakdowns and become familiar with the showroom and product (groups, colors, prices)
• Maintain organization of sample closets, and log all samples sent out of the showroom to customers and trade shows.
• Assist AM in putting market prep packs together for buyer including line sheets, CADS and seasonal selling.

·       Assist AM post market to organize notes and buy updates, and prepare orders for order entry.

• Work in conjunction with the Account Manager during market appointments and provide presentation support.
• Perform all other duties as assigned and required.

• A minimum of 1 year wholesale, e-commerce or other similar retail experience required.
• Amazon experience is a plus.
• Excel proficiency required. Word, Outlook, Salesforce, NuOrder experience a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills needed, as well as the ability to form interpersonal relationships
• Must be able to multi-task, pay great attention to detail, and exhibit strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Individual must be outgoing, well organized, and passionate about product and selling.
• Must be able to lift, carry, or otherwise move objects weighing up to 15 pounds.
• College Degree required.

Play as One Team:

• Showing respect towards everyone
• Commitment for the team’s work and decisions

Play with Elegance:

• Striving for excellence
• Treating others with fair play and humility

Play by Daring:

• Having the courage to speak up, experiment and take initiative
• To explore new opportunities

Play with Tenacity:

• Constantly seek continuous improvement
• Learning from our failures

At Lacoste, we’re committed to building the best team we can. We hire for potential and support every team member through each step of their career development. Building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive space for our team to think differently and push the status quo is incredibly important to us; and we strive to use these guiding principles as the foundation for how we interact with each other, how we build our business, and how we hold ourselves accountable to our core values.

* This job description is not intended to be exhaustive.  They can be changed orally or in writing at any time by the discretion of management.  We as Lacoste associates must also always ensure that all functions of our position are represented with our core values.