Overview
With a highly communicative and collaborative mindset, this position will primarily lead, manage and develop the multi-brand strategy to acquire new customers with a focus on lease operators and key national accounts. This self-motivated, results oriented sales leader will support the Sr. Sale Manager Resort, with strategic market and customer business planning, customer growth partnerships, and key business analysis and tactical execution. The role requires a highly visible commitment to developing and maintaining strong, cross-functional working relationships with key internal, sales support departments. Core competencies in organic and new business development, including opportunity identification, marketing and merchandising.
Responsibilities
* Establish and cultivate strong, key customer business relationships through enhanced market and customer knowledge, customer engagement, and shared vision for the shared business opportunity .
* Develop key strategic customer partnerships - National/regional supply agreements focused on exclusive or premium share opportunities (Event Network, Color Inc., Travel Traders, etc.)
* Develop resort customer classification prioritization and /or specialization with a focus on core competencies (Hotels chains, National Parks) and enhanced emerging market focus (Breweries, Outdoor Outfitters, etc.).
* Assist Sr. Sales Mgr. with development and execution of customer class and key customer business plans, including marketing and promotional plans, key customer programs and initiatives, customer and rep sales objectives, rep expectations, etc.
* Support Sr. Sales Mgr. with tracking and evaluating seasonal and annual sales and financial performance at brand, market, customer, gender/product, and program level.
* Contribute in the preparation and execution of key internal, cross functional business reviews, customer forecasting, customer operations, customer resource support , etc.
* Assist Sr. Sales Mgr. with rep evaluation, recruitment & training of new reps.
* Partner with sales & Brand to assist with development of POP & concept shop development.
Qualifications
* Four year degree
* Five Seven years of sales and sales management experience in the apparel industry
* Knowledge of the Resort Market, preferable with custom logoed apparel.
* Quantifiable accomplishments in development of attainable and aggressive sales goals
* Knowledge in translating marketing plans into effective sales strategies in the apparel industry
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require now, or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status
EOE/AA: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled
Only applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact us directly:
Telephone: 877.999.5553
Email: HBI_TA@hanes.com
Winston-Salem, NC
HanesBrands is a socially responsible manufacturer and marketer of leading everyday basic apparel under some of the world's strongest apparel brands in the Americas, Europe and Asia, as well as in Australia and South Africa. Our iconic innerwear and activewear apparel brands found in the United States and elsewhere include Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, Maidenform, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra and Gear for Sports. Outside the United States, we also have dominant national and regional brands, including DIM, Nur Die/Nur Der, Lovable, Abanderado, Shock Absorber, Zorba, Sol y Oro, Rinbros, Track N Field and Ritmo.
We are the world’s largest marketer of basic apparel. We sell bras, panties, shapewear, sheer hosiery, men's underwear, children's underwear, socks, T-shirts, sweatshirts, fleece and other activewear. In the United States, we sell more units of intimate apparel, male underwear, socks, shapewear, hosiery and T-shirts than any other company.
Founded in 1901, Hanes has a long history of innovation, product excellence, and brand recognition. In fact, nearly 90 percent of U.S. households have our company's products in them. We revolutionized Tagless T-shirts and underwear, we invented the sports bra and the stretch-cup T-shirt bra, we were the first to advertise a bra on national television (Playtex), and we are innovating with ComfortBlend and temperature-control X-Temp fabrics and seamless Smart Sizes bras.
Our Sell More, Spend Less and Make Acquisitions strategies are driving growth and creating value for our shareholders, consumers, retailers, employees and communities. Hanes has made more than a half dozen acquisitions, including Maidenform Brands, Gear for Sports and Knights Apparel in the United States and DBApparel in Europe.
Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., Hanes is a member of the S&P 500 and is ranked No. 490 on the Fortune 500 list. The company has approximately 65,300 employees in more than 40 countries.
Unlike most apparel companies, Hanes primarily operates its own manufacturing facilities. More than 90 percent of the apparel units that we sell worldwide and in the United States are manufactured in our own plants or those of dedicated contractors.
We take great pride in our strong reputation for ethical business practices and the success of our Hanes for Good corporate responsibility program for workplace practices and community and environmental improvement. The company is the only apparel producer to ever be honored by the Great Place to Work Institute for its workplace practices in Central America and the Caribbean. In the United States, the company has earned the Forbes magazine Best Place to Work honor. Hanes has won U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star sustained excellence recognition for seven consecutive years. Hanes has significant goals for reducing energy use, carbon emissions and water use and publicly reports its progress each year.