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Senior Manager, International Sales & Key Accounts

Soko GlamSeolleung, South KoreaOnsite

Senior Manager, International Sales & Key Accounts (Independent Contractor)


๐Ÿ“ Location: Seolleung, South Korea (Remote, with potential travel) ๐Ÿ“… Contract Duration: 6โ€“12 months (Flexible) ๐Ÿ•’ Estimated Hours: ~40 hours/week ๐Ÿ“ฉ Reports to: Senior Director of Business Development (based in London) ๐Ÿ’ผ Contract Type: Independent Contractor (Monthly retainer; competitive contractor rate)

ABOUT US


Soko Glam is a leading curator and distributor of Korean beauty products with a mission to help all people believe there are only good (skin) days ahead. Since 2012, weโ€™ve been at the forefront of bringing K-beauty to the global stage through thoughtful curation, education, and authentic storytelling. Our global footprint continues to grow through both e-commerce and retail partnerships, and weโ€™re passionate about empowering consumers to embrace a skin-first approach to beauty.

ABOUT THE ROLE


Weโ€™re seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial Senior Manager of International Sales & Key Accounts to support Soko Glamโ€™s global growth as an independent contractor based in South Korea. This role will lead efforts to expand and nurture our retail presence by developing new strategic partnerships and managing key global accounts.This is a great opportunity for someone who is proactive, collaborative, and thrives in a fast-paced, nimble environment. Youโ€™ll work independently while partnering cross-functionally with global stakeholders and brand partners to drive meaningful growth for Soko Glamโ€™s B2B and wholesale channels.

Key Responsibilities


  • Lead and execute B2B sales strategies focused on expanding Soko Glamโ€™s global retail footprint, with a core focus on K-beauty.
  • Identify, engage, and secure new retail and distribution partners across key international markets.
  • Manage and grow existing wholesale accounts and retail relationships with excellence.
  • Represent Soko Glamโ€™s brand and portfolio of Korean partners in business development and account meetings, both virtually and in-person.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (marketing, merchandising, operations) to ensure account success and operational readiness, leveraging strong project management skills to coordinate activities, track progress, and ensure timely delivery of key initiatives. Maintain meticulous attention to detail to ensure accuracy and completeness in all aspects of account management and reporting.
  • Deliver clear and timely updates to the Senior Director of Business Development; prepare account performance summaries and market insights, utilizing analytical skills to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
  • Travel domestically within South Korea and internationally as needed to support meetings, brand events, and partner visits.

Qualifications


  • 8+ years of experience in international B2B sales, account management, or business development, ideally within the beauty or consumer goods space.
  • Extensive network of contacts within the Korean beauty industry, including strong relationships with key decision-makers at leading K-beauty brands and retailers.
  • Deep knowledge of Korean beauty trends, brands, products, and retail ecosystem.
  • Proven ability to independently manage sales pipelines and deliver growth through strategic partnerships.
  • Strong project management and communication skills; highly organized and responsive.
  • Comfortable working independently while managing multiple deadlines and stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated analytical skills with the ability to interpret sales data, market trends, and financial reports to inform strategic decisions and identify opportunities for growth. Exceptional attention to detail is critical for accurate reporting and effective account management.
  • Bilingual proficiency: Fluency in both Korean and English required.
  • Familiarity with working in global, cross-cultural environments.
  • Experience in startup or fast-growth environments strongly preferred.

Additional Notes


This is an independent contractor role. The selected contractor will operate with autonomy and discretion in how work is completed, while remaining responsible for fulfilling agreed-upon deliverables and timelines. While Soko Glam may propose general collaboration windows to facilitate communication with internal stakeholders and external partners, the contractor retains full control over their schedule.The contractor will also:

  • Submit a monthly invoice for services rendered, in accordance with the scope of work and hours mutually agreed upon.
  • Not be subject to performance evaluations, annual reviews, or other assessments typically associated with an employment relationship.
  • Not be eligible for employee benefits, including paid leave, severance, health insurance, or retirement contributions.
  • Utilize their own tools, equipment, and resources in the performance of services, unless otherwise agreed upon for operational efficiency (e.g., the use of a company email address for brand and communication consistency).

This position is classified as an independent contractor engagement and does not constitute an employment relationship under the Labor Standards Act of South Korea.----------------------

๊ตญ์ œ ์„ธ์ผ์ฆˆ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ € (ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ง)


๐Ÿ“ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€: ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์„œ์šธ (์„ ๋ฆ‰ / ์žฌํƒ ๊ทผ๋ฌด, ํ•„์š” ์‹œ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์™ธ ์ถœ์žฅ ํฌํ•จ) ๐Ÿ“… ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 6โ€“12๊ฐœ์›” (์œ ์—ฐ ์กฐ์ • ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ) ๐Ÿ•’ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์‹œ๊ฐ„: ์ฃผ๋‹น ์•ฝ 40์‹œ๊ฐ„๐Ÿ“ฉ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ƒ: ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ (์˜๊ตญ ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜) ๐Ÿ’ผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ํ˜•ํƒœ: ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ง (์›” ๋‹จ์œ„ ๊ณ ์ • ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ / ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด)

ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์†Œ๊ฐœ


Soko Glam์€ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ „ํŒŒํ•˜๋Š” ์„ ๋„์ ์ธ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์ œํ’ˆ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋ฐ ์œ ํ†ต ํšŒ์‚ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2012๋…„ ์„ค๋ฆฝ ์ดํ›„, ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์„ ์ •, ๊ต์œก ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ , ์ง„์ •์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌํ…”๋ง์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Šคํ‚จ์ผ€์–ด ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๊ณผ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด '์ข‹์€ ํ”ผ๋ถ€์˜ ๋‚ '์„ ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‚ฌ๋ช…์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฌ์ง€์…˜ ๊ฐœ์š”


Soko Glam์˜ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ™•์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•  ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ๊ตญ์ œ ์„ธ์ผ์ฆˆ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ๋‹ด๋‹น ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์ง‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํฌ์ง€์…˜์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด B2B ์„ธ์ผ์ฆˆ ๋ฐ ๋„๋งค ์ฑ„๋„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ด ์—ญํ• ์€ ์ž์œจ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ํ˜‘์—…์„ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์ ํ•ฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž ๋ฐ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์™€์˜ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ํ˜‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด Soko Glam์˜ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œ์ผœ ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฃผ์š” ์—…๋ฌด


  • K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ B2B ์„ธ์ผ์ฆˆ ์ „๋žต ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ ๋ฐ ์‹คํ–‰
  • ์ฃผ์š” ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ๋ฐ ์œ ํ†ต ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ๋ฐœ๊ตด ๋ฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ
  • ๊ธฐ์กด ๋„๋งค ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์˜ ์œ ์ง€ ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ
  • Soko Glam๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์˜ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ž๋กœ์„œ ๋Œ€๋ฉด ๋ฐ ๋น„๋Œ€๋ฉด ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฏธํŒ… ์ฐธ์„
  • ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…, ์ƒํ’ˆ๊ธฐํš, ์šด์˜ ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ถ€์„œ์™€ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™” ๋ฐ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ ํ™•๋ณด
  • ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ ๋ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ณด๊ณ 
  • ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ, ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ๋ฏธํŒ… ๋“ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์™ธ ์ถœ์žฅ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰.

์ž๊ฒฉ ์š”๊ฑด


  • B2B ์„ธ์ผ์ฆˆ, ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์ตœ์†Œ 8๋…„ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ ๋ณด์œ  (๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ๋˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์žฌ ์‚ฐ์—… ์šฐ๋Œ€)
  • ํ™”์žฅํ’ˆ ์—…๊ณ„ ๋‚ด ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ์ธ๋งฅ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๋ณด์œ 
  • K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์‹œ์žฅ, ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ, ์ œํ’ˆ, ์œ ํ†ต ๊ตฌ์กฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด
  • ์„ธ์ผ์ฆˆ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ ๋…๋ฆฝ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต์  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด์œ 
  • ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ, ๋ถ„์„๋ ฅ, ๋ฐ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ์Šคํ‚ฌ
  • ์ž์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž์™€์˜ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์กฐ์œจํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฐ ์˜์–ด ๋ชจ๋‘์— ๋Šฅํ†ตํ•œ ์ด์ค‘ ์–ธ์–ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž
  • ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์„ ์ง€๋‹Œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ์˜ ํ˜‘์—… ๊ฒฝํ—˜
  • ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—… ๋˜๋Š” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—… ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ์šฐ๋Œ€

๊ธฐํƒ€ ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ


๋ณธ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์€ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ง์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ž๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์กฐ๊ฑด ํ•˜์— ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

  • ์ž‘์—… ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ์ผ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์žฅ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ƒํ˜ธ ํ˜‘์˜๋œ ์ผ์ • ๋ฐ ์‚ฐ์ถœ๋ฌผ์„ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์™„์ˆ˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๋ฐ ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž์™€์˜ ์›ํ™œํ•œ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜์„ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํ˜‘์—… ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ œ์•ˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ณ ์ •๋œ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ์š”๊ตฌ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งค์›” ์ธ๋ณด์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ณด์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋ นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ •๊ทœ์ง ์ง์›๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ‰๊ฐ€, ์—ฐ๋ด‰ ํ‰๊ฐ€, ์ธ์‚ฌ ๊ณ ๊ณผ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋Š” ์ ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์œ ๊ธ‰ ํœด๊ฐ€, ํ‡ด์ง๊ธˆ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ณดํ—˜, 4๋Œ€ ๋ณดํ—˜ ๋“ฑ ์ •๊ทœ์ง ๊ทผ๋กœ์ž ํ˜œํƒ์€ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์—…๋ฌด ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ์‹œ ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ์žฅ๋น„ ๋ฐ ๋„๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ ๊ณ„์ •์ด ์ œ๊ณต๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฒ•๋ น์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ž‘์„ฑ๋œ ๋ณ„๋„์˜ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋˜๋ฉฐ,

ใ€Œ๊ทผ๋กœ๊ธฐ์ค€๋ฒ•ใ€์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ณ ์šฉ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Life at Soko Glam

Soko Glam is your most trusted online beauty shop and lifestyle brand with the best selection of Korean beauty products and content. Based in New York City, the Soko Glam team travels to Seoul regularly to scour the Korean skin care and makeup market, consult industry/product experts, and meet tastemakers to bring back a selection of beauty products that are truly tried used and trusted by Korean women and genuine beauty innovations. Soko Glam's Co-Founder and Curator is Charlotte Cho, who is (among other awesome things) a board certified esthetician and the author of The Little Book of Skin Care: Korean Beauty Secrets for Healthy, Glowing Skin. She personally tests and reviews every single product before it is selected for the Soko Glam community. Soko Glam launched in 2012 and is the pioneer in K-Beauty in the U.S. and one of the fastest growing brands in New York City. Known for popularizing the 10-Step Korean Skin Care Routine, Soko Glam has been featured in major publications including The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Allure, Into The Gloss, Bloomberg, Refinery29, and more, helping millions adapt the Korean รขโ‚ฌล“skin-firstรขโ‚ฌย philosophy to their daily routine. Here at Soko Glam, we are a lean team that packs a BIG punch. We move fast, smart, and like to think outside the box - challenging the status quo. We do things differently, pioneer the way, and continue to innovate at every stage of our company. We're obsessed with providing our community a personal, trustworthy, and overall awesome experience. Our Mission: To help all people believe there are only good (skin) days ahead If you're a great fit for the Team Soko Glam, open positions can be found on our careers page at sokoglam.com or visit https://angel.co/sokoglam. If you are interested to collaborate with Soko Glam, please reach out to partnerships@sokoglam.com If you are a retailer interested in carry brands on Soko Glam, please contact retail@sokoglam.com or orders@sokoglam.com
Thrive Here & What We Value- Beauty curation with diversity celebration- Transformative skincare experiences- Equal employment opportunity for all- Competitive compensation package (medical insurance, 401K, PTO, life insurance, long term disability)- Small agile team with performance-based pay progression- Opportunities for selfexpression and inclusivity- Veteran or military status support- Disability accommodations- Caregiver benefits- Unemployment protection

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