Sales Associate - part time

Tapestry; Gretna; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a vibrant team at an established global lifestyle brand, where your sales skills and customer service expertise will shine. In this role, you will be the face of the brand, engaging with customers and ensuring their needs are met with excellence. You will contribute to store goals through your passion for sales and your ability to connect with people. This position offers the chance to be part of a dynamic environment that values creativity and teamwork, all while promoting a culture of inclusivity and personal growth. If you thrive in a fast-paced retail setting and are eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a retail service environment is essential.
• Very good English proficiency is required.

Responsibilities

• Achieve personal sales and productivity goals while delivering excellent service.
• Act as a brand ambassador and meet customers’ needs consistently.

Skills

Customer Service

Sales Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Problem Solving

Education

High School Diploma

Experience in Retail

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.

Primary Purpose

The Muse contributes to achieving store goals in sales, productivity, and service by utilizing Kate Spade selling skills, and Kate Spade Service training. You will be 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 support management decisions;
• Demonstrate professional ethics.

Further requirements:

• Very good English proficiency (essential);
• Previous experience in a retail service environment (essential);
• Background in working in luxury retail (desirable);
• The ability to communicate effectively with customers and staff and manoeuvre the sales floor.

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.

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 www.katespade.com.