Area Sales Manager Italy and Greece

Your mission

The ASM Italy & Greece is fully accountable for the sales leadership and direction of the GS business in the area. She/he is responsible to laterally lead the partner business in the respective markets to drive brand execution across all channels with the aim of setting, meeting and exceeding the overall targets. She/he is accountable for delivering exceptional client experience, brand visibility and operational excellence, thanks to the proper planning and implementation of the GS Distribution, Retail and Training strategy.

Key Responsibilities

- Follow up and achieve the sales budget (in unit and value) on the concerned area

- Ensure the right presence and environment of the brand at the POS and digital level

- Monitoring and ensure the quality and quantity of the stock level at the POS following the International Guidelines.

- Responsible for any opening or closing of doors in the concerned area under the guidance of the GS Europe Sales Director

- Representative of the brand throughout the concerned territory, and responsible for the same in term of quality and quantity regarding the way the brand and products are marketed

- In charge of the Trade/POS events in liaise with the GS Europe HQ and Marketing department

- Follow up, coordination and liaise between POS and the Physical Distribution department on logistic aspect

- Coordination of watches orders especially during launch periods

- Support market with material and services from local headquarters for product launch, events and promotion

- Feed latest information on activities, promotions, material availability to POS

- Control local marketing activities and defined budget with and under the guidance of the GS Europe structure

- Feed of information and follow up with the GS Europe headquarters

- General Administrative work, filling and organization of the information flow (incoming/outgoing) 

- Client visits Organization

- Partners teams training thanks to the GS training and eLearning

- Responsibilities of POS sales statistics.

Requirements

- Fluent in verbal and written in Italian/ English and ideally French

- Basic understanding on how to market a luxury consumer goods (Ads, sales, distribution, pricing, communication, PR and POSM)

- Ability to travel (up to 70%)

- Ability to work in team, and to take adequate decision

- Digital and IT friendly

- Open minded, can listen

- Communicative

Reporting line

Based in Milan

Report to Grand Seiko Europe Sales director

Starts May 2025