International Sales Manager with passion for sales expansion and shopper experiences

Wheat is one of the leading Scandinavian fashion lifestyle brands for children. We are passionate about creating clothes, footwear or fashion accessories that are not only stylish but also environmentally friendly, safe for children, and made to last.

For over 22 years, our products have been designed with the utmost care, using only the best materials and manufacturing processes. We hold a long-standing Danish design tradition and one of the most important design parameters is our unique approach to hand-drawn prints.

We are a strong international team of 40+ employees with headquarters in our CO2 neutral office in Gentofte (Greater Copenhagen), Denmark and local offices or showrooms in Munich, Oslo and London.

Job description

As Wheat new International Sales Manager, you will be on the driving seat of a formidable journey that will allow you to influence Wheat global expansion whilst keeping a strong base in our domestic market. During this international growth journey, you will lead the commercial relationship with Wheat’s network of agents & distributors and expand the brand footprint in select direct export markets. This is already a successful business area with exciting growth potential.

This will also take you to manage our consignment customers in Denmark, building up best practices which you will lift to an international dimension (first within the Nordics and further away in Europe) and new retail formats.

You will work in tandem with the Chief Sales Officer (to whom you will report directly to) and be supported by a strong Sales Administrator, and other supporting colleagues.  As such, you are a self-driven individual, autonomous yet a strong team player.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver the sales and profit targets
• Prepare sales budgets for each of the collection sell-in.
• Build joint sales and marketing plan with Distributors
• Work with agents and distributors on sales tactics and other activations with the support of the marketing team to drive distribution footprint, brand visibility and sell-through
• Support Agents with the management of Key Accounts
• Train retail staff, agents and distributors
• Ensure branding compliance (retail location and showroom) with the support of VM and marketing.
• Create with the marketing & VM team and other sales colleagues merchandising guidelines and continuously improve
• Guide the operations team to ensure compliance with the export procedure (labelling, certificate and other export documentation)
• Analyze sales performance of consignment customers and initiate relevant actions
• Monitor stock level and secure consignment locations are adequately replenished for the various sales campaign whilst securing the lowest inventory at the end of each season
• Be the link between business partners and the design team on product development opportunities
• Participation at trade fairs

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in a similar role or related within premium lifestyle, fashion, or consumer goods brands
• Proven sales track record
• Fluent in English
• Experience in sales and key account management in a fast-growing business
• Excellent relationship skills and outspoken – natural team player
• Proficient with all Microsoft Office and in particular Excel.
• Data driven – you can work with data and quickly process for actions
• Digital and SoMe savvy
• Keen eye for VM
• Open to multicultural business environment and international travels 

Our promise to you

• An exciting and challenging position in a company with a focus on growth and expansion.
• A warm and empowering environment where well-being and focus on professionalizing our sales processes are at the core, offering unique opportunities for responsibility and involvement according to your motivation and curiosity.
• A dedicated and passionate team.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

Wheat can offer a full-time position with start January 1st, 2025.

We offer an inspiring workplace with passionate colleagues, and a lot of fun.

If you are interested in applying for the job, please mark your application with “International Sales Manager” and send it together with your CV to: job@wheat.dk.

Latest deadline for sending through your application is November 15, 2024. But don’t wait… Interviews will be held on-going until the right candidate has been found.