Job Title: National Sales Manager-Grand Image Home
Hiring Company: Grand Image
Job Location: Seattle, WA 98134; preferred but not required
Full Time Position- Base salary plus sales bonus plan.

We’re looking for a nimble, seasoned Sales Manager with excellent client development skills, deep connections within the design community nationally or long relationships in the retail home market. A flexible and versatile candidate with a deep understanding of retail merchandising who is not only great at defining the market and delivering that feedback to the development team in response, but also has the drive and commitment to maintain and build on our key account relationships. Our ideal candidate can easily move from a sales presentation with a retailer buying team, to a home furnishings tradeshow floor, to a development meeting with our Art Director. To be successful in this role, you should be experienced with the Home Furnishings industry with established relationships and contacts, as well as an understanding of artwork and design. Additionally, experience in end-to-end EDI/ecommerce is a plus. There is also a significant amount of data management and project management. This segment of our business is managed internally by the candidate with sales support coming from an external repping group and design and marketing support coming from the internal Grand Image team. The ideal candidate is Seattle metro area based but would consider other candidates. Travel with national reps and to 6 national trade shows yearly are required, plus training and onboarding any new sales reps. See www.grandimagehome.com.

Required Experience and Qualifications:
• Solid understanding of home furnishings market product, pricing and competition
• Highly efficient digital skills including full MS Office suite as well as Photoshop, Google suite and Asana and SalesForce a plus.
• Strong understanding interior design and art
• Knowledgeable in EDI compliance and systems
• Excellent communication skills; visual, verbal, and written
• Effective presentation capabilities
• Previous project management experience a plus
• Ability to build effective relationships with key stakeholders internally as well as partnering outside the organization
• Easily able to adapt to new situations and concerns; is comfortable wearing many hats
• Proven record of measurable retail success
• Strong ability to work independently while remaining part of a team

Art and design company Grand Image seeks National Sales Manager for its Grand Image Home division; with a focus on residential designers and retailers for our Grand Image Home vertical, with the ability to flourish in a fast-paced and vibrant organization.
About Grand Image and Grand Image Home:
Grand Image is a design driven company with a simple mission- We create because aesthetics matter. Grand Image provides uniquely creative art consulting and curation services to the Architect and Design community while making the process fun and easy. Backed by over 100 years of collective art experience and over 25 fine art degrees, Grand Image is recognized as a natural leader in the upscale art consulting arena. We are a company of doers, learners, and creatives who like new challenges, saying yes to our clients, and making things happen. In our world, it isn’t about what’s new, it’s about what’s next.
We partner with interior designers, art consultants, and wholesalers.to create custom art solutions for multiple channels and mainstream brands such as including hospitality Marriott and Four Seasons , Multi family, Healthcare Big Tech, Developers and many others.

Grand Image Home is a newer vertical (48 months) featuring a curated collection of framed and finished artworks designed specifically for the residential interior design market and “home” retailers such as Anthropologie, Neiman Marcus, and Ethan Allen-all customers. The collection is primarily sold through our national multi-line repping group and is exhibited at national furniture markets in High Point NC, Las Vegas, and Atlanta

www.grandimagehome.com