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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Are you ready for an incredible opportunity with an amazing company? Then this opportunity may have been woven just for you! Valley Forge Fabrics is on the lookout for a professional and energetic Project Associate to join our first-class Project Management Team. Don't have textile experience? Don't worry, we'll train you! We are an innovative textile, design and manufacturing company with a fast, results-oriented culture. Valley Forge Fabrics is the largest supplier of decorative fabric for hospitality environments world-wide. We provide hotels, casinos, restaurants, cruise ships, and really cool people with amazing textiles for furniture, drapery and bedding. We are a financially strong company that has been around since 1977 and we take pride in our focus on sustainability and innovation. Here at Valley Forge Fabrics we focus on our biggest asset, our employees. Job Summary: An integral part of the Project Management Team, the Project Associate is responsible for contract hospitality design projects at all project phases. The Project Associate also helps to ensure excellent communication and flow of information between our customers, Account Managers and Sourcing Teams. The day-to-day: * Responsible for full life cycle of all pre-sales functions which includes building and managing all opportunities and project details utilizing Salesforce. * Delegates tasks to Sourcing, Textile Design and Print Teams on new sample development. * Ensure tasks are completed within set project timelines to exceed customer expectations. * Receives Project Packages from Account Managers and reviews each item for accuracy * Curates custom design packages according to customer direction utilizing our extensive textile library. This includes cutting, sewing and tagging fabric samples. * Reviews and approves/rejects samples prepared by Sourcing Team. * Prepares and sends samples to Account Managers and Customers. * Interacts daily with customers in order to meet customer and Account Manger needs. * Prompts Account Manager to obtain project and sample updates. * Create visually appealing binders, sales presentation materials for Account Manager. * Coordinates with Sourcing in order to negotiate costing within project budget while overall improving company profitability. * Builds costing within Salesforce in order to generate proposal to customer. * Responsible for organization of assigned area within the textile library. * Other responsibilities as assigned. Qualifications: * Ability to work in a fast paced environment where priorities and deadlines change throughout the day. * Must possess strong attention to detail, be extremely organized and able to juggle multiple tasks at once. * Great customer service and communication skills are required * Previous project management experience is a strongly preferred * Ability to excel in a team setting * MS Office experience required * Extra brownie points if you have experience with Salesforce * An eye for color and design is a plus * Bachelor s degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. The culture at Valley Forge is all about our employees and our community. This year we packaged over 43,000 lbs of food at Feeding South Florida during our annual Give Back Day, and we love to celebrate things like our annual Valley Forge Spirit Week (everyone loves pajama day!), and Friendsgiving each November. In our fabulous 80,000 square foot facility, complete with a gym, yoga studio, and slide! (yup that s right, a slide) we are all about working hard and playing hard. We are a fast-paced and energized group of people who share a purpose for creating a uniquely beautiful world. We invest our time and resources into each other, our local community, having fun and getting things done. So go ahead and just click that apply button, we can t wait to meet you! AAP/EEO Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Valley Forge Fabrics, Inc. is an EO employer M/F/Veteran/Disability
Associated topics: chief program officer, cpo, manage, manager, management, monitor, product manager, project manager, relationship manager, task