Wholesale & Concessions Executive

**Wholesale & Concessions Executive**

**About the Role**:

- To analyse and potentialise Wholesale/Concession Accounts for Celtic & Co.
- Work with the Senior Merchandiser and Accounts Personnel to establish and implement strategy, report on performance, adjust stock assortment and maximise availability to potentialise sales.

**About the Company**

Celtic & Co. has been creating timeless, sustainable clothing and footwear for over 30 years. We care greatly about our environment and community and this ethos flows through everything we do. We only ever use natural, sustainable materials, and keep our production miles to a minimum, sourcing mainly from Great Britain and manufacturing our sheepskin footwear and accessories by hand in our Cornish factory. All this contributes towards a better fashion future - we strive to do better every day and take industry standards as a threshold to go beyond.

Our style takes great inspiration from our beautiful Cornish location; its colours, patterns and textures. We are extremely dedicated to quality, circular fashion principles and attention to detail. We are passionate about providing the best products and service to our customers and our efforts have been recognised with two Queens Awards and one Kings Award to date.

We are a proud, British manufacturer with two sites located close together in Cornwall. Our factory is based in Newquay and our head office and warehouse are located in Indian Queens.

**What we can offer**:

- Great work life balance
- Working in a beautiful part of the UK
- A supportive open-minded team environment
- Exclusive 50% discount
- Family feel business
- Free parking
- Cycle to work
- Employee Assistance Programs

**Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities Include**:

- Plan Account sales by season/week, product hierarchy, price, colour, size
- Plan assortment by season within the Celtic critical path
- Set up and maintain Account WSSI’s as appropriate
- Stay informed of all Marketing activity externally and in-house that could affect performance - feed into sales and stock forecasts
- Weekly and adhoc sales analysis - timely reporting to Celtic Teams
- Work closely with Celtic Merchandising Team to stay informed of the performance of all Celtic channels, total stock levels and product lead times
- Management of Account stock levels and replenishment
- Propose assortment adjustments to potentialize sales
- Manage the administration of stock movements
- Be the primary Account contact
- Document/minute all Account calls/meetings - feedback to the appropriate Celtic Teams
- Liaise with Celtic Marketing and Digital Teams with regards to Account imagery requirements
- Any other miscellaneous responsibilities that relate to the Account(s).

The scope of the Employee's roles and responsibilities may expand or be varied dependent on the needs of the Company's business to adapt to changing market conditions.

**Key Skills**
- Numeracy Skills - strong numeracy skills and the ability to analyse data and sales reports and forecast accordingly
- Problem-Solving - ability to identify issues and suggest solutions quickly and effectively, as well as the ability to process information clearly and accurately
- Customer Focus - ability to build and develop relationships with Account Personnel, putting them at the forefront of strategies and plan
- Computer Skills - ability to manipulate data, utilise datasheets and produce presentations

**Desired Experience**
- Merchandising/Planning - 1-3 years working as a product, wholesale or franchise merchandiser/planner to Assistant Merchandiser/Planner level ideally in a fashion environment
- Sample Management; including organization and maintaining sample cupboard, organizing new and carryover styles for Range Review and Final Selection meetings and sorting through and preparing samples to be ‘returned to stock’.
- Lead Sample Sale process; selecting suitable, cost effective product with lower work requirements/ higher retail values suitable for the online sample sale. This will include: sorting through samples, arranging labelling where necessary, completing sheets for stock sent to Factory, compiling stock lists for Ecom to arrange web page.
- Work alongside Garment technician on order critical path, to ensure any issues are highlighted/ identified early on and the Merchandising Team are kept informed.
- Ensuring relevant teams are updated with any changes to the range including working alongside the Marketing and Graphics team to ensure product imagery represents the bulk order; informing the Graphics team of colour/ style/ trim changes
- Primary contact for approval of sample invoices
- Work on product copy alongside entire product team according to critical path requirements; ensuring information is correct
- Continually liase with other departments on queries relating to product.
- Send out parcels or call in samples from stock for the department, collect post and sample deliveries.

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