Jobs at Caleres

Independent Sales Representative responsible for developing leads, contacting local businesses, visiting retail accounts, promoting footwear and apparel brands, closing sales, and maintaining customer relationships. The role requires external sales experience, territory and account management, opportunity identification, strong communication, and regular client follow-up. Compensation is commission-only at 7% with uncapped earning potential; product training and samples are provided.

Manages SEC filings, including 10-Q, 10-K, and 8-K reports; researches technical accounting matters; supports month-end close; maintains financial reporting controls under Sarbanes-Oxley; benchmarks disclosures; and implements process improvements and automation. The role requires accounting expertise, strong Excel skills, cross-functional collaboration, and experience with public-company reporting.

Leads seasonal marketing campaigns, omni-channel strategies, brand initiatives, promotions, vendor partnerships, co-op programs, and cross-functional marketing projects. Manages budgets, creative approvals, reporting, and customer experience initiatives while coaching direct reports. Requires strong leadership, communication, project management, retail marketing knowledge, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Independent Sales Representative responsible for representing footwear brands, developing local business leads, visiting retail accounts, closing sales, and maintaining customer relationships. The role requires footwear or apparel sales experience, strong communication and presentation skills, territory management, opportunity identification, pre-visit planning, and consistent client follow-up. Compensation is commission-only at 7% with uncapped earning potential. Product training and samples are provided.

Develops seasonal item, category, and account sales plans for footwear brands. Manages assortments, product tiers, dropship inventory, forecasts, monthly buys, profitability, markdowns, and sales and operating plan projections. Uses consumer, retail, wholesale, and assortment analytics to identify growth opportunities, optimize key items, manage inventory, and support financial objectives across accounts.

Execute and optimize email and SMS marketing campaigns, collaborate with cross-functional marketing and merchandising teams, coordinate product samples and campaign assets, proofread materials for brand consistency, monitor performance, and support seasonal campaigns, retailer initiatives, paid media planning, packaging updates, and partnerships.

Manages HR business partnerships, talent planning, performance management, succession planning, onboarding, employee relations, conflict resolution, investigations, compliance, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness. Analyzes workforce and performance trends, advises leaders, supports fair compensation and hiring practices, facilitates training, and promotes a diverse, respectful, high-performing workplace.

Lead business strategy and growth for assigned retail accounts, serving as a trusted advisor and managing forecasts, budgets, profitability, assortment, merchandising, and promotions. Build cross-functional and customer relationships, negotiate opportunities, analyze sales and market data, identify risks, and develop new partnerships to expand brand presence and improve account performance.

Leads HR strategy and execution for business leaders, including talent management, organizational design, workforce planning, employee relations, performance management, and compliance. Designs people programs that improve culture, engagement, retention, and organizational effectiveness. Advises leaders, develops leadership capabilities, strengthens talent pipelines, and builds high-performing teams while solving complex workforce issues and translating workforce data into actionable insights.

Supports account sales and profitability by entering orders, contracts, and purchase orders; monitoring inventory, order status, drop-ship details, and deliveries; recommending reorders; and resolving customer issues. Builds relationships with accounts and sales representatives, provides prompt service and suggestive selling, and assists Account Executives at store visits and shoe shows with meeting setup, samples, notes, and order entry.

Lead wholesale accounting close activities, prepare financial reports, perform reconciliations and balance sheet analyses, ensure GAAP and SOX compliance, analyze variances against budgets and forecasts, and support cross-functional financial decision-making and process improvement.

Supports sales account management for footwear customers by entering orders, contracts, and purchase order information; monitoring inventory, order status, deliveries, and reorders; resolving order issues; and maintaining customer and internal partnerships. Assists Account Executives with store visits and shoe shows, including meeting setup, sample packing, note-taking, and order entry. Provides responsive customer service, suggestive selling, and account-specific business expertise.

Administer enterprise identity and access management, including user accounts, permissions, passwords, SAP security roles, and provisioning. Support access governance, security compliance, audits, vulnerability investigations, remediation, and Tier II access-related support. Maintain documentation, monitor performance metrics, troubleshoot issues, and use scripting or automation to improve security administration processes.

Designs marketing materials across digital, print, retail, events, direct mail, and internal communications. Develops graphics, photography concepts, and GIF animations; collaborates on photo shoots involving styling, wardrobe, and art direction; partners with creative and marketing teams on projects; and researches competitive market and footwear trends.

Analyzes customer behavior, loyalty participation, campaign performance, and marketing engagement. Builds automated reports and dashboards, conducts testing and segmentation analysis, supports CRM and loyalty campaigns across email, direct mail, and SMS, and presents insights to cross-functional stakeholders. Recommends strategies to improve targeting, engagement, revenue, and marketing efficiency while promoting data-driven decision-making.

Monitor security service performance, investigate information security alarms and events, conduct risk and vulnerability assessments, evaluate controls, participate in security architecture reviews, develop incident response processes, and create security and privacy education programs. The role requires hands-on experience with firewalls, endpoint security, SIEM, vulnerability scanning, and certificate management.

Leads merchandise and inventory planning across eCommerce, marketplace, wholesale, and omnichannel channels. Develops budgets, forecasts, allocation, replenishment, assortment, and lifecycle strategies. Analyzes sales, inventory, conversion, and product performance metrics to optimize availability, sell-through, inventory turns, and profitability. Partners with merchandising, digital commerce, marketing, supply chain, operations, and IT teams while coaching planning talent and improving forecasting processes and analytics capabilities.

Manage operational supply chain activities for a strategic national retail account, including order lifecycle execution, customer portal maintenance, shipment planning, routing, replenishment, compliance, and reporting. Partner cross-functionally to resolve issues, prevent chargebacks, improve processes, and ensure on-time delivery. Lead root-cause analysis, continuous improvement initiatives, and customer account operations while serving as a supply chain subject matter expert.

Provides phone-based customer and technical support, troubleshoots hardware and software, administers client devices, documents resolutions, and improves support processes. The role requires strong customer service, problem-solving, PC operating system knowledge, Microsoft Office proficiency, and either a bachelor’s degree in information systems or two years of related experience.

Creates multi-channel digital and print marketing assets across email, websites, social media, paid media, trade shows, and events. Supports brand storytelling, campaign execution, brand identity, styling, product photography, and art direction while collaborating with creative and marketing teams. Manages multiple design projects and delivers polished work on schedule.