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Sales Agents Wanted
Territories: South East England and Ireland

Company History

Established in 1996 our head office is based in Weesp, Amsterdam. Sinner is one of Europe’s leading Free Sports companies specialising in eyewear, goggles, helmets, protection and accessories. Sold in the UK since 1999, Sinner is currently sold in 24 countries worldwide.

Sinner stands for the best technologies developed together with top athletes and unbeatable value. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. Sinner will offer you unrivalled performance at the best price. At Sinner we believe that everybody is a sinner in their own way. So don't try to be a saint, but enjoy your life by being yourself.

We are looking for established Sales Agents to join our team to cover the South East of England and Ireland.

For more information please contact

Kevin Whitehouse at Crystal Trading on 01905 621155 or kw@crystaltrading.com

Posted 06.02.2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

European Operations Manager

Founded in the United States in the mid 1970s as the Sports Division of one of the world's leading orthotic labs, Superfeet Worldwide became its own company in 1977 with the mission to ‘provide affordable orthotics to the general public’.

Since our beginning over 30 years ago, Superfeet has consistently and successfully created premium insoles for different types of feet, activities, and sports. But our business is grounded in something bigger than our product- our Employees created their own set of Core Values that we now use as a basis for our mission.
We remain true to this mission– to create affordable orthotics for the general public – while weaving our vision, purpose and core values into every decision we make. In fact, the heart of Superfeet Worldwide is built around these core values, and we work daily to make a positive difference in all of the lives we touch. This desire guides how we create our products and shapes the way we treat the people we work with.

If you join our team as our European Operations Manager, you won’t just be a partner, you’ll become an integral part of our growing Superfeet family.

JOB TITLE	European Operations Manager
SUPERVISOR’S TITLE	Director of Warehousing
DEPARTMENT	Operations

 

Position Overview and Responsibilities

The European Operations Manager is responsible for the leadership and oversight of Superfeet’s Operations team, located in the UK. The Operations team includes Customer Service, accounting, production scheduling, shipping, and inventory management.

He or she will work to ensure that Superfeet’s European Operations are in keeping with our Core Values and extremely high quality and customer service standards.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Uphold the Values and Purpose of Superfeet within the European Operations Team, striving to foster an atmosphere of initiative and involvement.
• Support and lead the European Operations Team through direction and mentorship.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards, professionalism, deadlines, and proper procedures.
• Help correct errors or problems when necessary.
• Recommend / implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production and distribution methods, equipment performance, product/service quality, and efficiency.
• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production and distribution goals.
• Make recommendations to management concerning such issues as staffing decisions and procedural changes and budgets and reports.
• Work with sales department to ensure orders are filled quickly and accurately, in keeping with Superfeet's high standards.
• Requisition materials, supplies, equipment parts, or repair services.
• Initiate and coordinate inventory and cost control programs.
• Institute employee suggestion and/or involvement programs.
• Ensure timely shipment of customer orders.
• Present a pleasant and professional impression when assisting customers.

Attributes

• Outstanding leadership and rapport skills
• Ability to maintain and promote strong relationships with Superfeet team members, clients, and vendors
• Ability to solve problems and ensure smooth team operations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be mature, personable, creative, highly motivated and flexible
• Position requires good judgment and excellent organizational skills
• Outstanding Customer Service skills
• Attention to detail, a high level of organization, and an understanding of computers and accounting are all essential in this position.

Travel Responsibilities

 Willing to travel the European market when needed
 Ability to travel to the corporate office and other business related events in the United States as needed

Qualifications and Experience

 5-10 years of experience in a similar role, including at least 2 years experience leading a team
 Degree in a related field a plus

Reporting Structure

This full-time position reports to the Director of Warehousing, Superfeet Worldwide. Salary is dependent on experience.

Please forward CV and covering letter to nplatte@superfeet.com

Posted 03.02.2012

 

 

 

REGIONAL SALES MANAGER – HOME BASED SOUTH

We are looking to recruit a talented, self-motivated Regional Sales Manager to join our UK Sales team, ideally based in the South. Reporting to the Sales Manager your brief will be to manage a portfolio of accounts, maximise sales potential and profitability, targeting and evaluating new opportunities and delivering regional training initiatives.

This will be a demanding role and to be successful you will need to have:

• Proven sales experience within branded consumer goods environment
• Great communication skills and self-awareness with the ability to adapt easily to changing situations
• Proven successful experience of sales and negotiation skills
• Highly developed presentation skills
• Excellent rapport with customers and peers
• Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office, SAP)
• A genuine empathy with the outdoors and outdoor products
• A current clean driving licence and prepared to spend nights away from home
• Self-motivation and able to work with minimum supervision
• Creative solutions to achieve our goals
• Determination to achieve stretching objectives

If you have a passion for footwear and the outdoors and are interested in the above role, please go to www.brasher.co.uk for further details or send your CV with salary details podrecruitment@pentland.com

Posted 27.01.2012

 

Store Management Positions: Manchester

Ellis Brigham is at the cutting edge of Mountain Sports retailing with stores nationwide. We currently have a fantastic opportunity for two dynamic and self-motivated individuals, who share our love and passion for Mountain Sports and for providing superior customer service.

We are currently looking for two Store Managers to work at our Ellis Brigham store and our Mountain Equipment store, which are both located on Deansgate in Manchester.

As a Manager of two of our key stores you will be a key individual in the future success of the company. The ideal candidate will have a comprehensive knowledge of outdoor clothing and equipment; including climbing hardware, ski equipment and snow sports clothing, as well as other related mountain sports products.

You must be an excellent communicator, experienced and confident when dealing with customers, self-motivated and with a proven sales track record. In previous roles you will have demonstrated great leadership skills and shown that you have developed and motivated teams of individuals to achieve success whilst delivering first class customer service and retail standards.

You may currently be working as a Store Manager, Department Manager or Assistant Manager within another store, or have similar previous experience elsewhere, and be looking to take that next step to assuming more responsibility and running your own store.

In return for your hard work we offer full training, competitive rates of pay, staff discount and flexible working opportunities along with good career development prospects that come from working for the UK’s most progressive mountain sports retailer.

To apply, please send an up to date CV and covering letter to jobs@ellis-brigham.com. Please put Manchester Store Managers in the subject line on any emails.

Closing date for applications: Monday 13th February

Posted 25.01.2011

 

PRODUCT MANAGER OUTDOOR THE NORTH FACE  

GENERAL SUMMARY

As a member of the European Product Department, the Product Manager is responsible for the research, coordination and ultimate execution of the European product line assigned by the Senior Product Manager. This position requires insight into the needs of the European consumer, retailer and athlete, both from the current market perspective as well as future growth
opportunities by researching, identifying and defining current and future market opportunities.

The Product Manager will work within the European Product Department and alongside the US Product team to indentify and execute a global product line that hits corporate growth, margin and profit goals from concept to market.

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Research the European market to identify opportunities and to stay on top of competitors, product innovations, emerging trends, materials, features and price points to successfully launch commercial & innovative product collections into the market at correct price points.
• Build collections or products and brief designers on direction, line plan, product features and price positioning working within the product development and sales calendar to meet deadlines to ensure the timely execution of the product line.
• Initiates and manages product feedback and inputs to the US and EU Sales to ensure TNF Europe has innovative, premium, technical products that drive sales to meet corporate goals.
• Manages SKU efficiency to targeted company goals.
• Work closely with the Product Development team during internal prototype reviews and vendor visits.
• Partners with RD&D, Forecasting, Sales, Retail and Marketing to effectively manage the design, development, distribution and net margin goals of the European product line from concept to product launch into the market.
• Actively participates and presents at the global product design review meetings at the TNF headquarters in the US and present collections to the Sales Teams or accounts during the product development cycle and at Sales meetings. Assists in merchandising at sales meetings and trade shows and provides additional support to sales teams when needed.
• Maintain all product administration files (e.g. line lists, line segmentation plans, line efficiency reports, SKU lists, discrepancy lists, commodity codes, etc) and ensure prompt and accurate communication of all changes and updates to relevant departments and the sales team.
• Work with Marketing and E-Commerce on workbooks, hangtags and product information to communicate features, technologies & benefits to generate consumer appeal.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: A degree in Marketing, Economics, Business, Merchandising, Fashion/Clothing Management or related field.
• Experience: Minimum two years experience within a similar role or company, preferably within the outdoor industry (preferably Outerwear and Tekwear).
• Language skills: The ability to communicate in English is essential. Other European languages are a plus.
• Analytical/Technical skills: A sound knowledge of Windows software packages including Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Experience in working with a database tool and CAD/Adobe Illustrator packages would be a benefit.
• Others: European & International travel will be required occasionally. An interest and active participation in outdoor sports and activities would be a benefit.

Location: Lugano Headquarters

If you wish to apply for this role, please upload your CV in English to our official websites: www.vfc.com> Careers Jobs- Europe or www.thenorthface.com -> Career

Posted 05.01.2012

 

 

 

Want to work for one of the World’s biggest ski brands? Amer Sports have an exciting opportunity to join our Salomon & Bonfire Customer Service team on a permanent, full time basis.

The Amer Sports business is based on strong brands that are respected by athletes world-wide and our major brands include Salomon, Wilson, Precor, Atomic and Suunto.

The overall purpose of the role is to pro-actively be part of the customer services team by delivering an efficient and consistent service from start to finish supported by expertise and enthusiasm. This includes the delivery of excellent customer service by building relationships with customers and the provision of seamless communications both internally and externally.

The role is specifically looking after our Bonfire, Snowboard and Running retail customers, so the ideal candidate will have previous snowboard experience and a desire to work in the industry, as well as an interest in running. If you have a genuine passion for snowboarding and running and have excellent administrative skills then this could be the role for you.

Main duties:

• To be the customers main contact point for updating and keeping them informed of their order’s progress
• To take all customers orders accurately and process them into our IT systems ensuring that all SLA’s are met
• To take ownership for all orders ensuring they are completed on-time and in full, and where applicable switch and/or up-selling to ensure customer requirements are met.
• To provide effective administrative support to the external sales teams
• To conduct all daily checks in order to ensure that high standards are delivered and mistakes minimised
• To take ownership and resolve all customer issues and complaints in a professional and honest manner
• To liaise with our accounts department and provide support for credit control when required

Key Skills required:

• Excellent administration and organisational skills – ability to multi-task is essential
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Have the ability to work on own initiative and be self motivated
• Strong customer focus
• Ability to thrive in a sales driven team environment

Qualifications and Experiences required:

ESSENTIAL:
• Min 5 GCSE’s or equivalent
• Previous Sales administration experience in an office environment
• Computer literacy - including Word and Excel
• End-user of snow sports products

DESIRABLE:
• Customer Service NVQ
• Previous industry experience
• Selling and negotiation experience

Closing datefor applications: 3 February 2012.

Please forward covering letter and CV to Sophie.hughes-mcbraerty@amersports.com

Posted 03.01.2012

 

 

Want to work for one of the World’s biggest ski brands? Amer Sports have an exciting opportunity to join our Salomon Customer Service team as maternity cover for a fixed term basis.

The Amer Sports business is based on strong brands that are respected by athletes world-wide and our major brands include Salomon, Wilson, Precor, Atomic and Suunto.

The overall purpose of the role is to pro-actively be part of the customer services team by delivering an efficient and consistent service from start to finish supported by expertise and enthusiasm. This includes the delivery of excellent customer service by building relationships with customers and the provision of seamless communications both internally and externally.

The successful candidate will have a strong alpine background with at least several years of ski experience. If you have a genuine passion for skiing and have excellent administrative skills then this could be the role for you.

Main duties:

• To be the customers main contact point for updating and keeping them informed of their order’s progress
• To take all customers orders accurately and process them into our IT systems ensuring that all SLA’s are met
• To take ownership for all orders ensuring they are completed on-time and in full, and where applicable switch and/or up-selling to ensure customer requirements are met.
• To provide effective administrative support to the external sales teams
• To conduct all daily checks in order to ensure that high standards are delivered and mistakes minimised
• To take ownership and resolve all customer issues and complaints in a professional and honest manner
• To liaise with our accounts department and provide support for credit control when required

Key Skills required:

• Excellent administration and organisational skills – ability to multi-task is essential
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Have the ability to work on own initiative and be self motivated
• Strong customer focus
• Ability to thrive in a sales driven team environment

Qualifications and Experiences required:

ESSENTIAL:
• Min 5 GCSE’s or equivalent
• Previous Sales administration experience in an office environment
• Computer literacy - including Word and Excel
• End-user of Snow sports products

DESIRABLE:
• Customer Service NVQ
• Previous industry experience
• Selling and negotiation experience

Closing date for application: 27 January 2012.

Please forward covering letter and CV to Sophie.hughes-mcbraerty@amersports.com

Posted 03.01.2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

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