Brand Trainer - West Coast Ambassador

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Brand Trainer - West Coast
Primary Purpose:
Plan, implement, and deliver a structured learning and development program for Stuart Weitzman wholesale partners within your region. You will be responsible for driving and understanding sales goals by partners and by door, as well as building relationships with all managers & associates within the region across all accounts.
Your exposure to our customer is imperative to gain insights on best/worst sellers, product feedback, inventory and assortment opportunities, and reporting that info and competitive performance to the Domestic Training Manager & Wholesale Team. You will need to work independently while leveraging best practices and sharing successes and challenges. You will maintain a strong visual presentation of products across all Wholesale stores in your market ensuring product is presented with integrity both on the sales floor and in the stockrooms.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure all Wholesale partners are exceeding sales goals.
• Weekly or Bi-weekly recaps of market:
  • Sharing best/worst sellers, product feedback, inventory and assortment opportunities and competitive performance.
  • Reorder opportunities in each door weekly, based on visits
• Create, conduct and distribute product knowledge specifically geared to select wholesale partners in the west coast territory (Washington to Arizona).
• Create, facilitate, track and manage selling contests in the territory.

Skills and Abilities Required:

• Ability to quickly build rapport and establish trust and credibility with sales associates, managers and clients in different wholesale markets.
• Self-motivated, proactive, dedicated, and results-oriented with a strong ability to work independently in a fast-paced work environment.
• A solutions-focused mentality with a growth mindset.
• Adaptability and openness to change.
• Ability to travel more than 70% within designated market, being in a home office ~1 day a week and in stores 4+ days a week..

Education and Experience:
3+ years direct sales experience with a prov en track record of success in performance-based sales roles
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 handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

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