Key Account Specialist Travel Retail EMEA (30k + bonus) in Milton Keynes

We are currently searching for an experienced Key Account Specialist to join our team based in Milton Keynes for 37.5 hours a week. This role is an amazing opportunity for an accomplished key account support looking for their next role. If you're interested in the fashion watch industry and enjoy working with beautiful products, this could be an exciting new chapter in your career.

Work life balance is important to us here at Fossil, with this role you will be able to take advantage of our agile working policy, you can start your day anytime between 8am and 10am. We are based in a brand new office in the heart of Milton Keynes next to centre:MK and our global home working policy is 4 days in the office and 1 from home.

As a Key Account Specialist, your role supports the Key Account Manager in developing the business with our Travel Retail Key Accounts throughout EMEA. This role coordinates promotional activities, reviews performance, identifies opportunities and prepares customer visits. Based in the Head Office this role will require a high degree of internal and external communication with the customer and internal cross functional teams. This role will also have some responsibility for managing a number of smaller accounts in their entirety which is a great opportunity for a more experienced key account specialist looking for their next step.

You will be based in the Milton Keynes office with occasional travel to support our EMEA partners, duties include:

• Preparing customer visits
• Key contact for accounts for administrative support
• Supporting range & product presentations based on input from KAM
• Preparing customized account presentations
• Fill in retailer specific spec sheets
• Provide information for door approval process
• Coordinates promotional activities
• Develop deep product knowledge and range understanding
• Ensuring retailers receive updates and communication as set out by the Sales Lead / Organization
• Collating competitor product and range developments
• Supports the sell in of products and brands using company developed sell in tools
• Responsible for checking the standard wholesale price and sending it to accounts

We are looking for people who embody our core values; Authenticity, we are all in with our unique selves. Everyone is different at Fossil and we love it! Grit, we push through, we bounce back and we set our sights on the prize and go after it. Curiosity, we ask what if? What’s next? Sense of Humour, we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Yeah, seriously. Making an Impact, we go big. We perform. We make a difference.

For the role specifically we are also looking for:

• Highly effective written and verbal communicator
• Ability to understand and act on sales reports
• Strong negotiation skills
• Ability to build and maintain strong customer relationships
• High degree of self motivation and adaptability to change
• Business fluent in speaking English is a must, additional languages preferred
• Experienced in a wholesale environment
• Building and maintaining key customer relationships
• Develops a strong understanding of products, categories and brands
• Confident using Excel

Salary of £30,000 per annum plus bonus, Employee Discount on licensed and Fossil brands, Birthday Watch, Agile and home working, Welcome Watch, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, 3 Duvet days, Option to buy holiday, Service milestone holiday awards, Free onsite gym, Free parking, Health Cash plan Scheme, Pension plan, Life assurance, EAP and Mental Health support.