Head of Sales with Marketing

About us

Alonuko, founded by British born, Nigerian Oluwagbemisola Okunlola is a Women's fashion brand which focuses on creating iconic pieces, that introduce every woman in their best self. Established in 2012, Alonuko is limitless when it comes to its source of inspiration. From World affairs, experiences during travel to dreams that initiate foundations for creative exploration, Gbemi expresses much of her perspective of life through design and presents it to the world through fashion.

Oluwagbemisola Okunlola was born on 17th August 1994, and raised in London by both parents amongst her four siblings. Okunlola, commonly known as ‘Gbemi’, recognised her creative flair, love for fashion and meticulous eye for detail at a very early age, and by 11, after growing up watching her mum create beautiful gowns for clients, followed in her footsteps and with one of the machines in a corner of the house, taught herself to sew.

Nearly 10 years since its inception, Alonuko is internationally recognised by the likes of Vogue, Insider, Huffington post and Essence to name a few. Renowned as a leading British bridal brand, particularly championed for their intricately hand designed embroideries and perfect matching illusion tulles, especially for women of colour- who are usually underrepresented, Gbemi continues to explore and create beyond the standard, to deliver exceptionally for the Alonuko woman.

Based in London, Alonuko caters to woman throughout the world, constantly finding more ways to reach as many of their customers in the most seamless way possible, through events such as trunk shows and pop ups. Alonuko products are created to work with the female form, not to hide imperfections or flaws but to accentuate desired features.

Gbemi believes, a woman should work with their qualities within, to edify her beauty without.

The successful candidate for the sales and marketing manager role will have extensive knowledge and experience in both sales and marketing and will be responsible for driving and maximising sales as well as improving our current marketing strategy. The ideal candidate has excellent organizational skills; including attention to details, the ability to set and meet deadlines and the ability to work under pressure. A background in sales, marketing and data analytics is essential. Experience within the fashion industry is also essential.

What you can expect to be doing day to day:

• Strategy and planning - Ensuring we have easy access to the key metrics and data needed to drive forward both sales and marketing, this can include sourcing and creating relevant reports using data provided by external consultants. You may also be required to manage our budget and revenue models, and work with department leads to set and measure progress against our quarterly priorities.
• Hiring - As a growing business we will need to find A-players to help us achieve our audacious goals. As Head of sales and marketing, you may occasionally need to work with our CEO to align on our hiring needs, collaborate with hiring managers across various departments and have overall responsibility for us making our key hires in this department each quarter.
• Finance - Collaborate with our external finance support to assess and monitor sales. Key task will include generating sales reports, creating strategic revenue plans, client conversion reports and working on maximising conversion rates.
• Marketing - Working closely with the marketing and social media team to create a successful marketing strategy, continually assessing the best way to reach new clients and achieve global recognition for our brand.

About you

The role is designed for someone with a minimum of 3 years sales and marketing experience with a proven history of success in implementing solid sales and marketing strategies and systems.

• Interpersonal skills - you will have strong interpersonal skills and understand issues from multiple perspectives.
• Effective communication - to be successful in this role, you’ll communicate with and challenge others in an effective and collaborative way.
• Prioritisation - you will have excellent prioritisation skills and be able to discern where your team should be spending time and you should make an effort to drive forward wider business priorities and goals.
• Making data driven decisions - you will be comfortable analysing and presenting data to internal and external stakeholders and be incredibly data drive in your approach to shaping business priorities.
• Project delivery - you can be relied upon to deliver projects through delegation, executing them yourself, project managing, outsourcing or communicating back that we need to pivot our focus

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £40,000.00-£45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• sales and marketing managment: 3 years (required)

Work Location: In person