Sales Assistant - Maesa Group : Job Details

**Sales Assistant**

at Maesa New York **About Maesa**

Maesa is the world's largest independent beauty company, housing numerous, fast growing it brands within all categories of beauty. We are a high growth global company in the middle of the transition from founder lead to private equity owned. With an incubation flywheel ideating on new global brand launches, Maesa pushes creative and technical boundaries to deliver exceptional performance and establish global staying power. Maesa has a keen focus on marketing and white space analysis, which guides its thinking on marketing existing brands as well as development of new brands through its extremely unique structure. We are vertically integrated globally with inhouse marketing, branding, product development/formulation, packaging design/engineering and regulatory. With a focus on modernity and sustainability, we design innovative solutions and make proactive choices to achieve environmental neutrality and consumer wellness. Maesa has mastered commercializing creativity, making itself a leader in the fundamental revolutionary change in the beauty industry. Headquartered in New York and Paris, with additional offices in Los Angeles, Vienna, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Dongguan, Maesa employs about 400 team members worldwide.

**Position Summary**

Assists SVP and Sales team with the execution of sales plans and initiatives for business across specialty retail customers and brand customers; focuses on enhancing business relationships and driving repeat business for this category of customer.

**Position Responsibilities**

* Working closely with Director of Sales and team, supports the annual sales plan within the organizational strategy and objectives

* Assists with implementation and execution of sales policies and practices

* Ensures communications are coordinated and support sales plan objectives and meet organizational expenditure requirements in conjunction with CMO

* Recommends sales strategies for improvement based on market research and competitor analyses

* Performs other related duties as assigned, including managing messenger/fed ex/ reports as requested and other sundry duties

* Work closely with Marketing/Planning/Operations to ensure optimum customer service

**Essential Skills and Experience**

* Have a passion for beauty

* Thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment.

* Working towards a bachelors degree in Business Administration, Sales and Marketing or related field

* Planning: an ability to think ahead

* Management: the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities

* Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level

* Strong customer orientation

* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

* High performance teams and a strong team player

* Commitment to company values