Temporary Associate

Tapestry, Inc.; Montreal; On-site; CAD 33,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(K)

Paid parental leave

Commuter benefits

Disability insurance

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Kate Spade New York is seeking a stylish and client‑focused stylist for our Montreal boutique to help customers discover looks that express their personal style. You will work with clients to pair items, build cohesive outfits, and provide outstanding service throughout the shopping journey.

Ideal candidates bring strong retail experience, excellent communication, and a passion for fashion. This role includes evening and weekend shifts and a dynamic, customer‑centric environment.

Qualifications

• Strong sales skills with excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.
• Previous experience in a retail environment.
• Ability to multitask, set priorities, and collaborate within a team.
• Knowledge of social media and willingness to learn omnichannel and virtual selling techniques.
• Proficiency in English (or local market language).

Responsibilities

• Greet customers warmly and confidently, demonstrating solid product knowledge.
• Listen actively and ask relevant questions to understand customer needs.
• Provide styling advice, suggest complementary items, and create complete looks.
• Be creative in presenting ways to wear products and encourage exploration of new styles.
• Guide customers in purchase decisions and ensure a smooth checkout experience.
• Value and celebrate customers' choices and invite them to return.
• Generate results through strong client relationships and effective storytelling.
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the brand and product features across all categories.
• Maintain operational excellence, including back-of-house organization and in-store transactions.
• Give and receive feedback in an honest and constructive manner.

Skills

Retail sales

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Multitasking

Social media knowledge

English proficiency

Job description

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.

Le ou la styliste agira comme un conseiller ou une conseillère de confiance, offrant une expertise pour aider les clients à choisir des produits qui correspondent à leur esthétique et à leur mode de vie. Cette personne travaillera avec le client pour découvrir et exprimer son style personnel tout en lui montrant comment intégrer les produits Kate Spade à sa garde‑robe existante.

Responsabilités principales

Engagement client et stylisme

• Accueillir les clients chaleureusement et avec assurance, en démontrant une solide connaissance des produits.
• Écouter activement et poser des questions pertinentes pour bien comprendre les besoins du client.
• Offrir des conseils de stylisme, suggérer des articles complémentaires et créer des looks complets.
• Faire preuve de créativité pour présenter différentes façons de porter les produits et encourager les clients à explorer de nouveaux styles.
• Guider les clients dans leurs décisions d’achat et assurer une expérience de paiement fluide.
• Valoriser et célébrer les choix des clients, tout en les invitant à revenir.

Ventes et sens des affaires

• Générer des résultats grâce à des liens solides avec les clients et à un storytelling efficace.
• Démontrer une connaissance approfondie de la marque et des caractéristiques des produits dans toutes les catégories.
• Maintenir l’excellence opérationnelle, incluant l’organisation de l’arrière‑boutique et les transactions au point de vente.
• Donner et recevoir de la rétroaction de façon honnête et constructive.

Exigences

Compétences et expérience

• Compétences professionnelles en vente, avec d’excellentes aptitudes interpersonnelles et en communication.
• Expérience préalable dans un environnement de vente au détail.
• Capacité à gérer plusieurs tâches à la fois, à établir des priorités et à travailler en collaboration au sein d’une équipe.
• Connaissance des médias sociaux et volonté d’apprendre les techniques de vente omni‑canal et virtuelle.
• Maîtrise de l’anglais (ou de la langue locale selon le marché).

Horaire

Capacité à travailler selon un horaire flexible pour répondre aux besoins de l’entreprise — incluant les soirs, les fins de semaine, les périodes achalandées et les journées de fort trafic en magasin (incluant, sans s’y limiter, les jours fériés).

Note : Ce document présente un aperçu des tâches et responsabilités du poste et ne constitue pas une liste exhaustive de toutes les exigences de performance.

Ability to lift at least 25 lbs. regularly (up to 50 lbs, occasionally), to climb, bend, kneel, and maneuver sales floor and stockroom.

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 articulate 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.

Kate Spade. 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.

Base Pay Range $16.60-$19.00 Tapestry will comply with minimum wage requirements and any other applicable pay laws based on city, county, and state regulations.

Here are some of the benefits that we offer:

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401 (K)
• Paid Paternity and Maternity leave
• Commuter Benefits
• Disability insurance
• Tuition assistance

Our growth is creating great opportunities! Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

At Tapestry, we bring together the iconic brands of Coach and Kate Spade New York—uniting bold ideas, diverse voices, and boundless creativity to stretch what’s possible.

Driven by dreamers and makers, we turn passion into progress.

By embracing differences and pushing boundaries, we create with purpose, uplift one another, and shape a more inclusive, sustainable future—together.

Our Brands Spark Personal and Emotional Connections Our brands go beyond products—they inspire confidence, encourage self-expression, and build lasting emotional connections with consumers. Through constant innovation and deep customer insight, we anticipate where shoppers are headed and adapt to meet them with personalized, seamless experiences. Our digitally powered, unified shopping journey allows our brands to become part of people’s lives—meeting them when, where, and how they choose to shop.