Sr. Sales Associate I (Outlet City Metzingen)

Tapestry; Gemeindeverwaltungsverband Metzingen; Vor Ort; EUR 30.000 - 40.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading fashion brand is looking for a Senior Sales Associate in Metzingen, Germany. In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for achieving sales goals, providing exceptional customer service, and acting as a brand ambassador. Ideal candidates should have prior retail management experience, a high school diploma, and a passion for fashion. This position requires flexibility in schedule including evenings and weekends.

Leistungen

Competitive salary

Employee discounts

Career development opportunities

Qualifikationen

• Previous management experience in a luxury retail service environment preferable.
• Possess current knowledge of fashion trends and competition in the marketplace.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Aufgaben

• Achieve store goals in sales, productivity, and service.
• Act as an ambassador of the brand.
• Meet personal sales and productivity goals while delivering excellent service.

Kenntnisse

Sales skills

Customer service

Retail management

Communication

Teamwork

Ausbildung

High school diploma or equivalent

College degree preferred

Tools

Cash register systems

Basic computer skills

Mobile POS

Jobbeschreibung

Sr. Sales Associate I (Outlet City Metzingen) Tapestry•Metzingen, BY, DE

Stellenbeschreibung

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always stood for optimistic femininity. Today, the brand is a global life and style house with handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, gifts, home décor and more. Polished ease, thoughtful details and a modern, sophisticated use of color—Kate Spade New York’s founding principles define a unique style synonymous with joy. Under the vision of creative director Nicola Glass, the brand continues to celebrate confident women with a youthful spirit.

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands powered by optimism, innovation, and inclusivity.

SENIOR MUSE

Primary Purpose

The Senior Muse contributes to achieving store goals in sales, productivity, and service by utilizing Kate Spade selling skills, and Kate Spade Service training. You will responsible for meeting personal sales and productivity goals, and delivering service that meets or exceeds expectations. You will represent Kate Spade to the consumer, act as an ambassador of the brand, and ensure customers’ needs are consistently exceeded.

PROFILE

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following proficiencies:

• Understand how individual productivity impacts the store;
• Behave like a brand ambassador;
• Model sales behaviours taught in company sales training programs;
• Maintain high energy on the sales floor;
• Consistently achieve sales goals;
• Able to work with multiple customers simultaneously;
• Consistently anticipate and meet customers’ needs;
• Service all customers according to the Kate Spade Approach standards;
• Participate as a team member and encourage team to meet and exceed performance standards;
• Champion company initiatives and supports management decisions;
• Demonstrate professional ethics.

Further requirements:

• Previous management experience in a luxury retail service environment preferable
• High school diploma or equivalent; college degree preferred
• Possess current knowledge of fashion trends and competition in the marketplace
• Knowledge of cash register systems, basic computer skills (including the ability to use iPad/laptop, Mobile POS and Internet)
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and team (both oral and written), manoeuvre sales floor and meet moderate stockroom lifting and store climbing requirements
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the business, including nights, weekends and holidays

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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 the 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. Visit Kate Spade at .