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.
Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.
A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. Visit Our People page to learn more about Tapestry's commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.
The role will have the following main areas of focus/responsibility:
Drive performance against sales and margin targets; maximize in-season opportunities.
Build solid relationships with Marketplace partners across channels and TPR brands, ensuring regular trade meetings and key KPI’s are met and exceeded.
Support in the collation of all product data required for Marketplace product launches, including but not limited to, SKU codes, compositions, dimensions, care instructions etc.
Utilize multiple systems, including Rithum & Zdirect to ensure on-time & accurate product data sharing and error resolution with Marketplace partners to source required product data and ensure accuracy across all data fields.
Support in the seamless execution of new product launches on multiple Marketplace channels.
Compile weekly trade reports and provide analysis to inform trading actions to fuel growth.
Strong excel expertise to support: enriched data collation, trade analysis, pricing, product performance, with strong ability in vlookups, pivot tables, sum ifs etc.
In conjunction with the team, identify regional product opportunities & market trends, providing consolidated feedback to inform seasonal and core assortment needs
Increase knowledge of product, consumer and competition in local market and provide feedback to key internal stakeholders.
In partnership with the Digital Trading Manager and local Inventory Management team, understand and highlight existing business risks and opportunities regarding product investments and inventory.
Partner with IM team to ensure optimal stocks are maintained in line with upcoming promotional strategies, marketing initiatives and key trading periods.
Partner with Marketing to ensure optimal platform content by category and gender within global guidelines and support effective marketing plan aligned with investment.
Support on maximising product visibility on site, e.g. building catalogue tree edit visual guides for partners
Support weekly and monthly onsite execution for our Marketplace site content, including homepage refreshes, category banners, navigation banners etc.
Communicate monthly newness and onsite launches
Support in building communication tools, highlighting to the business assortment strategies and monthly quarterly hindsight
Support our customer service team with specific retailer / customer queries where necessary.
Build relationships and establish trust with the regional teams. Digital, Buying, IM, Marketing and Finance
What Tapestry can offer you:
Hybrid working (Tuesday - Thursday working from the office, Monday and Friday working remotely)
Option to finish early on a Friday (Flex Fridays)
1 paid volunteering day per year and opportunities to volunteer with global projects
Learning & development opportunities
Internal mobility & career progression
Regular social events - seasonal & cultural
Equity Inclusion & Diversity initiatives which include employee resource groups & regional inclusion council
Other benefits include:
25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
Multi brand discount up to 50% off – Coach and Kate Spade.
Private healthcare with health assessment (Bupa)
Bupa rewards - Financial wellbeing support and wellness discounts
Private dental cover
Free 24/7 support for family building, fertility and menopause with Maven
Eyecare vouchers
Employee assistance programme
Enhanced employer pension contribution
Gym discount
Interest free season ticket loan
Cycle to work scheme
At Tapestry, we are committed to building a diverse & inclusive workforce. We know that having a wide range of perspectives and experiences makes us more innovative and brings us closer to our consumers. If you are interested in this role but do not believe you meet all the set criteria, that’s ok. We are happy to work with individuals who have the drive, passion, agility and willingness to learn. So, take a chance and apply; you may just be who we are looking for. We would be delighted to hear from you.
Our Competencies for All Employees
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.
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.
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.
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 and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
Tapestry is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.
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Skills Required
- Advanced Excel skills (vlookups, pivot tables, sumifs)
- Experience using marketplace/product platforms (Rithum, Zdirect) for product data management
- Experience managing marketplace or retail partner relationships and meeting KPIs
- Ability to collate and validate product data (SKU codes, compositions, dimensions, care instructions)
- Experience supporting product launches and onsite content execution (homepage, banners, navigation)
- Experience compiling trade reports and performing trading/price/product performance analysis
- Ability to partner cross-functionally with Inventory Management, Digital Trading, Marketing, Buying and Finance
- Knowledge of product, consumer and competitive market trends
- Strong communication skills to handle retailer/customer queries and partner communications
What the Team is Saying
Tapestry - Coach and Kate Spade Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental bonding leave is standardized, with additional birth‑parent time supported through disability, plus adoption assistance and a phased return‑to‑work program. Access to Maven’s family‑building platform further strengthens family support.
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Healthcare Strength — Employer‑paid basic life and AD&D, short‑ and long‑term disability with company‑paid basic LTD, and a defined salary‑continuation schedule during short‑term disability are outlined. Medical plans support HSA/FSA options with current plan‑year limits reflected in materials.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) savings plan with company match is paired with an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. These programs provide retirement savings support and ownership opportunities.
Tapestry - Coach and Kate Spade Insights
What We Do
A tapestry is made of many threads woven into one story. So are we. Our global house of brands unites the magic of Coach and Kate Spade New York. By intertwining different people and ideas, we push ourselves in our work, pull out the unexpected in what we create, and expand the bounds of possibility. Our brands were created by dreamers who were determined to turn ideas into icons and, with passion, made it happen. We’ve grown by finding people similarly dedicated to the dream all over the world. We hold ourselves to high standards in every material, process, and person that plays a part in our work, and we embrace difference by design because diverse perspectives are at the heart of creativity. We find brilliance in the intersections—of beauty and function, of heritage and innovation, of accessibility and aspiration—which is how we break through with magic and logic in our culture and our craft. The result is that we stand taller together. Tapestry elevates the best in our people and brands. We use our collective strengths to move our customers and empower our communities, to make the fashion industry sustainable, and to build a house that’s equitable, inclusive, and diverse. Individually, our brands are iconic. Together, we can stretch what’s possible.
Why Work With Us
We believe that difference sparks brilliance, so we welcome people and ideas from everywhere to join us in stretching what’s possible. At Tapestry, being true to yourself is core to who we are. When each of us brings our individuality to our collective ambition, our creativity is unleashed.
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