International Account Executive FR
About Wild
Wild is a high growth, venture backed, direct to consumer business looking to eliminate single use plastics in bathrooms across Europe and beyond.
Our mission is to shake up the throwaway culture of everyday bathroom products. Through our wildly sustainable products, we hope to redefine the future of personal care. We launched our refillable deodorant on WeAreWild.com in April 2020 and are growing rapidly having delivered millions of deodorants, raised over £7.5m in funding and now available in thousands of stores across Europe.
This is a very rare opportunity to join a brand at the early stages of its journey and have an impact from day one on a business that is focused on having a positive impact on people's lives and the environment.
About the role:
Having launched our subscription based business in 2020, Wild is now looking to scale up its European retail presence even more. With successful launches into Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Norway and Switzerland, Wild is looking for a Retail Exec to support this continued growth.
Bilingual French mandatory, Italian preferred.
The ideal candidate will help grow Wild’s retail presence in Europe with a focus on France and Italy and show their ability to build great partnerships with key stakeholders whilst also being able to put the necessary controls and processes around forecasting and planning in place to help Wild scale to the next level.
Don’t worry if you don’t feel as though you have all of the required skill sets on this job spec, we’re looking for someone with the right go getter attitude and hunger to learn - the rest is on us!
Key responsibilities:
Building & maintaining relationships: Help building strong relationships with large retailers and distributors in Europe to grow key accounts, owning and managing your own accounts
New business: Working with the international retail team to grow accounts and win new business opportunities, supporting in new business development activities like reaching out to new accounts, and thinking of creative ways to grab retailers attention
Forecasting: Planning and forecasting future growth and working closely with our operations team on stock holding and logistics, forecasting and order planning for your accounts
Growth & Engagement: Supporting to improve performance and engagement within Wilds current retail partners in Europe
Brand Ambassador: Attend trade shows and other events to network and represent the Wild brand
Your key competencies and skill sets:
Bilingual (English and French / Italian preferred)
Competent in using excel
Communication: being able to form great internal and external relationships
Ambitious - Able to think big and get people behind the Wild vision for a more sustainable bathroom.
Passionate - have a passion for Wild’s mission and want to keep improving everything we do.
Preferred: Experience in sales, account management or retail
Customer orientation: you seek to understand what customers need, and feel confident in supporting them to grow our accounts
Organisation: you can juggle multiple projects at once, and know how to prioritise your time
Sustainability: you’re keen to learn more about sustainability, and want to promote others to make more sustainable changes in their day to day lives
What you’ll get from us:
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Hybrid working, 3 days a week in our shiny new London office
Weekly early finishes and social events
Mental wellbeing support through Spill
Private healthcare with Vitality
A role at a young but well-established brand making a considerable splash in sustainable self-care
Our company culture is all about bringing your most authentic self to work, and this is how we can drive innovation and Wild ideas into the world! Each and every single one of our employees have huge input into who we are, and where we’re going to go in the future. We couldn’t do this without welcoming individuals from all areas of the world, ethnicities, genders, beliefs, socioeconomic backgrounds and more. We’re always looking to grow our team by hiring people with fresh perspectives and ideas!
- Department
- Retail
- Locations
- Wild HQ
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
International Account Executive FR
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