Assistant Store Manager Jobs

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles.

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The successful individual will leverage their proficiency to:

• Inspire team to meet and exceed performance standards and sales goals
• Demonstrate empowerment to solve customer problems and meet customers’ needs;
• Assist n developing plans to address key business issues, and utilizes plans to impact business and achieve desired results
• Able to influence others to gain support to achieve goals and complete projects
• Demonstrate effective time management skills.
• Communicate effectively with store leader, peers, supervisors, and corporate partners
• Take ownership and accountability for store and support the Store Leader in driving desired business outcomes and building effective teams
• Run the daily operations of the shop, including motivating team, assisting with a high level of customer service, problem solving, and fostering leadership of luxury clientele service behaviors
• Act as advocate for the team, able to motivate others to achieve results

The accomplished individual will possess:

• Deep understanding of business acumen, KPIs, and retail math
• Ability to work flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including nights, weekends and some holidays
• Knowledge of, and ability to use Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and staff, both written and verbally
• Experience in retail management. Big-box or Luxury Retail experience is appreciated!
• Demonstrated adaptability and a team-player attitude

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Creativity : Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Perseverance : Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Dealing with Ambiguity : Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Interpersonal Savvy : Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility : Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Building Effective Teams : Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
• Managerial Courage : Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.