Sales and Merchandising Coordinator

We are currently looking for a high-energy self-starter for our Ann Arbor sales team. A fun, entrepreneurial, fast-paced place to work. The perfect job for a career-oriented recent graduate -- We will train the person with the right energetic attitude and natural sales skills who can fit in well with our office environment!

JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Attend jewelry tradeshows as sales representative for Etre
- Prep merchandise and miscellaneous action items for tradeshows
- Full knowledge of products, including descriptions and costs (will train)
- Solicite new customers (cold-calling, mass distribution emails, online research)
- Field walkup (retail) sales of customers who walk into the showroom
- Provide all levels of customer support
- Monitor all website inquiries
- Process and ship online orders
- Process and ship orders to wholesale customers
- Maintain merchandising catalogs
- Submit purchase orders
- Supervise all open orders
- Maintain database and invoice information
- Maintain inventory of Etre’s merchandise stock
- Quality Control of all incoming products
- Proactively monitor incoming shipments
- Enter bills
- Process incoming checks
- Generate weekly and monthly sales reports
- Answer phones as needed
- Manage customer complaints and returns
- Maintain customer distribution email lists
- Help implement and maintain online marketing campaign (Myspace, Facebook, blogging)

REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Communications, Business, or Marketing
- Previous selling experience
- Internet-savvy
- Must be willing to travel some weekends
- Be goal and results oriented, reliable, consistent, self-motivated, assertive, determined, persistent and willing to grow in the company
- Previous leadership positions a plus
- Highly motivated self-starter with effective communication skills
- Pay strong attention to detail and possess excellent organizational skills
- Possess ability to establish, develop, and maintain professional relationships with customers and co-workers
- Possess good analytic and technical abilities (proven ability to learn new analytic and technical skills through work experience)
- Must be friendly and outgoing
- Ability to multi-task
- Positive can-do attitude with ability to adjust to a fast-paced, always-changing startup company environment
- A team player but competitive when necessary
- Proficiency in MS Excel, Word
- Proficiency in MS Access, Outlook, MS Publisher, QuickBooks, and/or Adobe Photoshop not necessary but a plus

SALARY/WAGE: Commensurate with Experience

TO APPLY: Please submit a resume and cover letter with salary requirements to sales@etredesign.com. No phone calls please.