Ecommerce Business Development Associate

**Ecommerce Business Development Associate**

**We want to know what unique attributes you can bring to our team and what we may learn from your experience.**
**Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter describing your current goals and why you'd make a great addition to this team. Any submissions without the requested information will be rejected.**
- **Who are we looking for?**_

At Vita - we place the same amount of importance on the **quality of work** as we do to the **quality of the person**. This means that as important as it is to have a high-performing individual be a part of our team, we’re also looking for a person that equally contributes to a positive working environment and thrives on team collaboration.

We’re looking for a unique individual who is self-motivated, an excellent communicator, passionately takes notes and makes to-do lists, and has a bias to action.

The individual should anticipate an ever-changing day and be able to cope with and withstand adversity; be flexible and be able to prioritize all competing priorities. The individual must be a self-starter and self-manage on any set of tasks to help the sales team reach its full potential.

If immediate gratification is something important to you, this is not the team you are looking for. Ecommerce sales is about relationship building, proactively providing information to our vendors, and working towards the long term-success of our company.

This is a position with room for growth and flexibility around your skill set - it is our goal to help people find their sweet spots so they can contribute at the highest level to the team.
- **Who are we?**_

At Vita, we’re leaders in the design of outdoor garden products to help create beautiful outdoor spaces for our customers.

We are dedicated to bringing joy, creativity, and inspiration to peoples’ lives through our designs and products.

Every aspect of what we do has a purpose, from the selection of materials to our innovative designs and philanthropic endeavours. We love what we do and are passionate about our customers, products, and employees.

We are a small, tight-knit team looking for the perfect person to help us in our Sales Team Nearly every e-commerce retailer with an outdoor category in North America sells our products.
- **Duties**:_

Immediately:

- Supporting the Business Development Team with product and information assistance for ecommerce and retail partners.
- In Time:_
- Provide support to our retail partners
- Implementing promotional activities
- Increasing visibility of our products and brand through these retailers
- Negotiate with external vendors to secure advantageous terms, maintain proper product information, and find ways to continue to Vita’s growth
- Competitor research and identifying potential customers/markets
- Scheduling and implementing the addition and updates of product information across 3rd party retail platforms
- Assist in the development and merchandise strategy of our products
- Optimizing Vita’s presence on retail partner sites by ensuring implementation of all available features and programs
- Identify new product opportunities (brands, categories, items, etc.) that meet the company’s goals
- Competitor research and identifying potential customers/markets
- Interaction and partnering with external teams to ensure up to date and accurate information is communicated to vendor partners
- Analyzing sales related data to predict future sales and determine trends
- Ensure Vita’s Marketing exceeds our retail partners requirements and each retail partner receives all the information needed for the consumers
- **Qualifications**:_
- Minimum 4-year experience working in a similar eCommerce environment
- Customer Service background is an asset
- Complete knowledge of MS Office with a strong emphasis on Excel, and strong computer program skills to be able to learn internal computer programs
- A self starter and bias to action. Whatever challenge you face, you find a way to solve it
- Strong attention to detail; scrutinize your business and polish the customer experience
- Strong teamwork skills. Nothing big can be accomplished standing-alone in front of a computer. We are a TEAM above all else.
- Ability to work in an ever changing work environment where the daily tasks can change frequently. You are a fundamental building block to a growing team.
- Must be able to work on multiple projects with competing priorities
- Clear and concise communication skills with proactive follow-up both internally and externally
- Phenomenal market research skills
- A stickler for precision, creativity, and excellence
- **Job Specs**:_
- Hours are 8AM-5PM EST
- The position starts with a 6-month probationary period, with the offer of a full-time position if expectations are met.
- Vita offers competitive wages, benefits package options and qualification for profit sharing (after one year of full-time employment)

We look forward to hearing from