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Account Manager – Pet Specialty
Are you passionate about pets and energized by building meaningful customer relationships? Do you thrive at the intersection of sales, trend, and product? If so, this might be the role for you.
SportPet Designs is seeking an Account Manager to independently manage two pet specialty accounts, including both domestic and international responsibilities. This is a remote, full-time position offering a salary range of $100,000–$110,000. The ideal candidate brings a strong sales foundation paired with an eye for trend — our pet specialty accounts include pet apparel and lifestyle products where understanding consumer and retail trends is a genuine part of the job. This role is multifaceted and rewards someone who is equally comfortable analyzing business performance and collaborating with design and merchandising teams on product assortment.
About us: SportPet Designs is a leading provider of “pet lifestyle” products — we design and wholesale trend-right, quality items sold in top retailers worldwide, across both brick & mortar and online channels. We are a dominant player in pet hard & soft lines (apparel, tethering, feeding, bedding, toys, cat furniture, scratch & dog containment). With offices in San Francisco, CA and Waukesha, WI and owned manufacturing facilities across Asia and the Americas, we are an established company with a strong reputation and a global footprint.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Independently manage two pet specialty accounts (domestic & international) by:
o Creating customer assortments in collaboration with the merchandising and design teams, incorporating trend insights, best sellers, and customer needs — including pet apparel and lifestyle categories where trend awareness is key
o Communicating customer assortment strategies to internal teams to ensure timely and accurate execution
o Collaborating with internal teams including production, sales operations, packaging, design, product development and merchandising to achieve customer goals
o Meeting with customers to present product lines, trends, competitive information, and aid in assortment selection
o Tracking and managing customer needs and priorities
o Meeting or exceeding financial targets (sales & margin)
o Sample review, organization & preparation
o Creating and maintaining online based design catalog
o Managing inventory levels to ensure proper in stock positions and communicating with customer inventory teams
- Support the Director of Sales on business development efforts as needed
- Serve as a champion of the SportPet brand — growing brand share within accounts, identifying new opportunities, and cultivating lasting customer relationships
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 3 years sales or retail experience
- Strong knowledge of MS Office suite (Powerpoint, Excel, etc)
- Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a fast-paced corporate environment
- Flexibility with regards to job responsibilities
- Effective interpersonal and organizational skills; especially working directly with senior level executives
- Strong attention to detail
- Proficiency in assortment creation, merchandising & project management
- Experience with forecasting/demand planning and inventory management
- Impeccable communication skills across all channels
- Excellent discretion, judgment, tact and diplomacy
- Must demonstrate an energetic, positive, helpful demeanor
- Genuine passion for pets — we make products for pet lovers, and it shows in everything we do
Job Type: Full-time, Remote. Salary: $100,000 annually.
Living in the San Francisco Bay Area a plus.
Travel: Approx. 5-10% to tradeshows, customer or corporate office visits
Salary : $100,000 - $110,000