Key Account Specialist (15 month FTC, c. £26 - £28,000 per annum)

We are currently recruiting for a Key Account Specialist to join our wholesale team within the Travel Retail pillar based in Milton Keynes, UK for 37.5 hours a week. 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, our core hours are Monday to Friday 10am – 3pm beyond this you can work your hours to suit you. We are based in a brand new office in the heart of Milton Keynes next to centre:MK and our global working policy is working 4 days in the office and 1 from home.

Make An Impact

You will make your impact by supporting the Key Account Manager in developing our rapidly growing Travel Retail business through being the main point of contact for 2-3 key accounts. You will create a true partnership with our retailers by helping them to build commercial ranges that are right for their customer whilst maximizing all selling opportunities.

Responsibilities will include:

• Ownership of several retailer accounts

• Being a key contact for accounts for administrative support

• Completing retailer specific spec sheets

• Providing information for brand approval process for our retailers

• Preparing for customer visits and account presentations

• Supporting range and product presentations based on input from Key Account Manager and other stakeholders across the business

• Coordinating promotional activities

• Receive, adapt & transfer tools from our European teams

• Ensuring retailers receive updates and communication

• Supports the sell in of products and brands using company developed sell in tools

• Collating competitor product and range developments.

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 & 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.

• Someone who has a "can do" positive approach

• Organized, proactive and commercially minded

• Passionate about achieving results

• Are highly self-motivated and can easily adapt to change

• Ability to multitask

• Is keen on developing deep product knowledge and range understanding

• Able to create relationships and build trust

• Embodies our core values

• Experience working within a similar role in wholesale or retail environment would be an advantage

This role would be well suited to a Buying Assistant, Merchandising Assistant or graduate with a relevant degree similar who is interested in gaining experience within a wholesale environment, working for a large fashion and lifestyle brand.

• Salary of £26,000- £28,000

• Discount on licensed and Fossil brands

• 25 Days Holiday, plus bank holidays

• 3 Duvet Days

• 2 Volunteer Days

• Simply Health

• Free gym onsite

• Free parking onsite

• Free watch for new employees after 3 months

• Pension

• Fossil Birthday Watch

• Agile working

At Fossil, we don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products and our community. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in all employment practices without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex and sexual orientation. Anyone requiring special accommodations to our application process please email ukrecruitment@fossil.com and we will assist you.