What are the responsibilities and job description for the Showroom Assistant position at Artemide?
Positioned in the New York Showroom. Assisting the sales team in achieving their objectives.
Position Type: Full Time (40 hrs per week)
Work Hours: Monday to Saturday 10:00AM - 6:00PM
Report to: Showroom Manager & Sales Director
Responsibilities
- Assist with daily showroom operations
- Assisting clients in the showroom as well as providing superior customer service via phone and email
- Enter quotes and orders for showroom clients
- Follow up on quotes and deliveries for clients in regard to projects, orders and general inquiries
- Research potential client leads
- Maintain database, entering new client information into database for mailings and e-blasts
- Assist with completion of long-term showroom projects
- Field sales calls, acting as the liaison between salespeople and clients
Marketing & Merchandising
- Help organize events & be available and flexible for after-hour events
- Maintaining the overall presentation of the showroom
- Help implement new window displays
- Handle transfers for catalogs and marketing material from ordering to closing deliveries
- Manage & organize inventory (stock & supplies) within the showroom
- Prepare marketing material for clients handling and mailing purposes
- Coordinate mailings of catalogs
Showroom Maintenance & Administrative Tasks:
- Make sure all bulbs are working and manage bulb stock
- Responsible for office-supply
- Petty cash reconciliation
- Process claims, returns and exchanges for showroom clients, including paperwork and shipping
- Responsible for shipping repairs to warehouse (when required), including managing the related paperwork
Logistics:
- Receiving and shipping orders to clients
- Coordinate UPS deliveries
Skills & Qualifications
- Self-motivated, self-directed, and committed to achieving goals
- Excellent attention to detail in both administrative and merchandising duties
- Respectful of brand image
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, customer service skills and the ability to prioritize while handling multiple tasks is required.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment
- Ability to use basic Office and Outlook programs.
- Previous experience or serious interest in design is an advantage
- Experience in high-end retail sales is a benefit
Application
Please send your application directly to: newyorkshowroom@artemide.net
(Only applications sent to this email will be considered.)