Swimwear Anywhere, Inc. is the premier designer and manufacturer of swimwear in North America.

Through our extensive portfolio of brands and licenses, our privately owned company has led the swimwear industry in quality and innovation since 1933.

The originators behind bra sized swimwear, the company is known for its exceptional fit, quality, and fashion forward designs. Our expertise in textiles, blended with a rare ability for forecasting trending technologies, is evident in Swimwear Anywhere Inc.’s vast collections of labels.

Swimwear Anywhere owns the Coco Reef, Coco Rave, Beach House, Roxanne, and Gabar brands and holds the swimwear licenses for designer labels such as Michael Kors, Carmen Marc Valvo, Vince Camuto, Tommy Hilfiger, Proenza Schouler and Kate Spade.

Swimwear Anywhere, Inc. is looking for a Sales Professional who will be responsible for managing, maintaining, and growing a sales territory for our men’s line. The Sales professional will monitor each individual store to sell-in the collection, which will include major department stores, franchise stores, online accounts, and independent specialty retailers.

Responsibilities:

• Forecast sales plan for collection, by account
• Project and plan business by account  to ensure adequate inventory levels
• Review profitability reports to make decisions on how to grow a business (understand sales to stock ratios, gross margin, markdowns etc)
• Call upon stores for upcoming market and continually grow sales territory in appropriate stores
• Schedule market appointments; Set up the showroom for market
• Orchestrate product knowledge meetings for stores in order to train in-store selling staff of merchandise features, quality, fashion trends, and company direction
• Work with account base to assure congruent merchandise assortment
• Advise account base of merchandise ready and any production issues
• Monitor, track and analyze account base selling; generate and track weekly selling, door selling, seasonal turn, and seasonal margin
• Enter orders into system for current selling season
• Shop the market to identify current and emerging competitors and communicate information back to Sales Director
• Partner with Sales Director on a daily / weekly basis of territory status

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 5-7 years professional experience in  Men’s Active Apparel sales at wholesale level or related experience (ie buyer)
• Understanding of the apparel industry and how to analyze the business with “retail math” (ie., VMT reports, sell through, on-hands, inventory, and margin)
• Must have strong relationships of key stores in each territory
• Adept with public speaking and conducting presentations to retail executives
• Excellent computer skills with an emphasis on Microsoft Excel, AS400, and RepSpark
• BS College Degree (preferably in Business or Fashion Merchandising)
• Domestic travel required

Please apply with your resume, cover letter and salary requirement. Please reference Job ID SLMsr.