005823
Store Support Centre, British Columbia, Canada
lululemon athletica
Founded in 1998 in beautiful Vancouver, BC lululemon athletica creates components to live longer, healthier fun lives.
strategic sales
We create WOM and build brand awareness in communities by sharing our best in the world technical product with key yoga and athletic influencers around the world. We build win-win relationships with yoga and fitness studios, athletic teams and entrepreneurs to create conversation about our product and ultimately drive guests to our vertical channels. We generously share our culture of developing leaders, personal responsibility and goal setting to elevate the world from mediocrity to greatness.
We do this to:
• Get our product on the right influencers/brand awareness
• Support health & fitness entrepreneurs
• Create demand & drive sales to our stores and ecommerce
• Provide a competitive barrier & convenience
a day in the life of a strategic sales account manager
• Opportunity for potential field-based position or Vancouver SSC based position
• You will identify new strategic partners and develop brand building relationships in new and existing markets, while managing existing partnerships
• You lead market planning conversations with cross-functional partners in retail operations and community to support building strong communities and store performance in each of your markets
• You will provide retail training on product (EIT), VM, buying and sell through strategies
• You are a great coach and support our partners with their product orders and inventory management needs
• You are passionate about generously sharing our culture of goal setting, developing leaders and personal responsibility
• You process partners orders electronically and confidently track your sales, reporting on business trends
• You visit partners in market and enroll store teams in visiting and sweating at partner locations
• You ensure annual scorecard reviews are completed at your partner locations
• You manage our brand integrity including pricing policy, web logo usage and other terms as laid out in the lululemon retailer agreement
• A/R management (as applicable)
the finer print
• 3+ years experience in a relationship management or customer service role
• Post secondary education required in business administration or sales and marketing
• Willing and able to travel to the US to work with partners and lululemon stores once a quarter
• You have strong computer skills
• You are a great connector and love building relationships both internally and externally
• You love variety and are a master multi-tasker
• Experience as a lululemon educator is a strong asset
• You love to have fun and sweat
