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Business Manager / Account Manager - Commerce, CA
Role and Responsibility
Responsible for developing and costing retail-ready products for Allied Home customers. Must have a good understanding of the Basic Bedding retail market and experience working with North American retailers. Must speak Chinese / Mandarin in order to communicate with our international business partners.
Essential Duties and Job Functions
- Costing and Quoting retail-ready bedding products
- Create product quote sheets based on design and customer requirements.
- Coordinate production details between overseas factories and sales or customers to ensure timelines are met.
- Design and Develop new products and product technologies based on market needs and requests from Sales and Customers.
- Set up pricing in the costing database and update pricing as necessary.
- Coordinate product sample requests from overseas suppliers.
- Review new product samples for design elements and scalability for the Basic Bedding market.
- Communicate specification details and quote requests to overseas suppliers to get pricing on retail-ready products and material components.
- Coordinate with suppliers on lead times for new products or large promotions.
- When applicable, negotiate pricing with overseas suppliers.
- Coordinate product rollouts and program expansions with Sales and Operations.
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage quote request timelines and deliver quote sheets in a timely manner.
- Manage pre-production sample request timelines and provide status updates on a regular basis.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Experience in developing and costing of Basic Bedding products.
- Knowledge of Basic Bedding Products and North American Retail Market trends and customer assortments would be an asset.
- Must have some knowledge of manufacturing of textile finished products.
- Minimum of 5 years of related work experience is required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be detail-oriented and able to multi-task and meet tight deadlines.
- Must be proficient in English. Chinese would be a plus.
- Proficient in Excel, Word, and Outlook, required.
- Training on the use of the costing database will be provided. Must become proficient within 30 days of hire.
Work Environment:
- Office
Work Hours:
- 40 Hours per week, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. There will be after-hours work required to meet deadlines and some travel required during Market Week and customer meetings.
**PLEASE APPLY TO BE CONSIDERED**
A world leader in the down and feather manufacturing business. The company is a family-run operation with multiple manufacturing facilities worldwide. The company manufactures a variety of different bedding products, pillows, comforters, mattresses pads, etc., including our own proprietary blends of Down, and a line of private label, high-quality, synthetic-filled bedding.
