Sample Coordinator, Tech Performance

Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company®—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand. Skechers, a global Fortune 500® company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.

About the role

The Sample Coordinator is responsible for managing all of their assigned division’s footwear samples, coordinating sample requests and shipments, maintaining their division’s showrooms with the most complete and correct sample line. This includes prioritizing and distributing samples, and communicating with the team to ensure that samples arrive on time and timelines are kept.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain assigned division’s showrooms multiple times a day, which includes, but is not limited to: organizing the showroom walls and auditing the rooms once a week; adding new styles to the showroom walls; removing all reduced and dropped styles from the showroom walls; ensuring that the most up to date and correct sample is placed in the showroom; creating table displays of key styles; cleaning showrooms before and after management and account meetings; laying out new development samples based on management’s direction.
• Organize and maintain storage dress shops; overseeing samples inflow and outflow of the storage area and following set guidelines for the divisions dress shop and designated aisles.
• Coordinate sample shipments and distributions for domestic and international conferences, trade shows, and photo shoots which includes, but is not limited to: ensuring that all new samples arrive on time, and are distributed the same day that they arrive in the office; communicating with our Asia offices regarding samples ETD; tracking orders regularly to ensure minimal room for error/delays and working with office services when issues arise; fulfilling sample requests and shipping out the samples in a timely manner; working with the other sample coordinators to manage timelines for packing and shipping samples out for meetings and tradeshows; distributing incoming development, fit, national account, and confirmation samples to the appropriate people; working with sales reps and product team to coordinate the use of