Seasonal Sales Associate

Overview

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Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio and a global lifestyle brand offering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more.

• Achieves individual sales goals.
• Develops strong product knowledge across all categories.
• Responsible for ensuring exemplary customer service by delivering the ultimate kate spade Experience.
• Able to develop a personal connection with guests through effective use of the selling skills.
• Understand and communicate the kate spade new york aesthetic, brand philosophy and lifestyle to the customer.
• Demonstrate interest and ability to work as part of a team.
• Execute operational tasks as per company directives.
• Accurately processes all POS transactions.
• Adhere to and apply visual directives, ensure that store standards are executed daily.
• Professional selling skills and exceptional interpersonal skills.
• Proactive ability to multi-task and prioritize.
• Works well in a team environment.
• Available to work store schedule, as needed, including evenings and weekends; standing for extended periods of time; able to safely lift boxes up to 40 pounds; comfortable climbing ladders.

• 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 quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others:
  Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person s career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• 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…