Minimum Educational Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or higher. Degrees in marketing, business, or similar are useful. Textile science, design, merchandising, or management degrees are also valued.
Minimum Professional Requirement: The Membership Manager must demonstrate a strong work ethic, leadership skills, and a commitment to ongoing professional development, including managing or supervisory experience and experience in sales, membership, or marketing-related roles.
Other Requirements:
- Prior association experience is preferred. Prior textile-related experience is preferred. Typically, 5-10 years of related subject matter experience, and 2+ years supervisory or management experience expected.
- This role requires excellent written, telephone, and verbal communication skills, and demonstrated project management skills.
- The outreach function requires good presentation skills, including putting together and presenting appropriate presentations for the target audience. Experience in making oral presentations as well as sales experience is preferred.
- This position requires offsite travel; the person is responsible for representing AATCC in public and maintaining a professional image for the Association through the employee’s actions, speech, and dress; the person is expected to have a passport (or immediately apply for a passport when hired) and may be required to engage in overseas travel.
- Spoken and written facility with additional languages, especially Spanish or Chinese, are valued.
- Excellent computer skills and knowledge with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Association Management Software, and other computer programs as needed; Salesforce experience a plus.