Sales Assistant: New York City

Place Showroom is seeking a driven sales assistant to join our sales team. We’re a full service wholesale women's apparel showroom for leading contemporary and emerging brands.

As a representative of Place Showroom, the ideal candidate is outgoing with high energy that thrives in a fast pace work environment. Excellent communication and presentation skills and confident with cold calls and building new relationships. Time management and ability to prioritize tasks timely to achieve deadlines with high volume workload. 

The candidate must possess strong written and organization skills and perform well under pressure. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to PO processing from order order entry to shipment tracking. The candidate shall participate in trade shows and markets throughout the East Coast. The candidate will participate in product knowledge seminars with Place's brands and on occasion conduct product knowledge seminars at our retailers.

This is an amazing opportunity to build career working amongst a dynamic sales team. At Place, you will have exposure to work with a wide range of accounts while having the opportunity to build key relationships within the industry.

Responsibilities Scheduling and multi-tasking

Appointment preparation and showroom floor merchandising

Preparing for road an in-person appointments

Liaison between Accounts and Account Executive

Process orders and other general account management

Sample coordination

Administrative ownership – managing on order documents, PO tracking and shipment logs, maintaining updated account information on internal database

Qualifications Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Interest in a long term career in wholesale apparel industry

Customer-service oriented

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Proficient on a Mac computer

Ability to travel as needed

Must have valid/current driver's license

Salary: $24-28/hr, commensurate with experience