Support Associate

Coach Stores Limited; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Career progression

Volunteer day

Job summary

Kate Spade New York in the United Kingdom seeks a Sales Support Associate to keep the store organized, process deliveries, replenish floors, and uphold store standards.

You will engage customers, support omni/virtual selling, and contribute to a vibrant, inclusive team while delivering exceptional service in a fast-paced retail environment. Flexible schedule including weekends and peak periods, with opportunities for growth, staff discounts, and community involvement.

Qualifications

• Retail experience and a passion for service.
• Excellent client service and communication; ability to engage customers on the floor.
• Strong communication and an elevated sense of personal style.
• Social media awareness and willingness to learn omni/virtual selling techniques.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; strong English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Manage and process inbound deliveries promptly; monitor and prioritize daily workload.
• Organize and maintain accessibility of merchandise in stockroom and selling floor.
• Maintain knowledge of stock levels, unit counts, and sales performance.
• Support floor moves and ensure selling floor is consistently stocked throughout the day.
• Execute price changes and markdowns as required.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization standards across selling floor, stockroom, and offsite/warehouse.
• Audit compliance and work toward achieving shrinkage goals.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Customer service

Job description

About Kate Spade New York

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. Our company name Tapestry, represents the diversity of our brands and the diversity of our people. We know that having a diverse range of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences makes us more innovative and successful and it brings us closer to our consumer. Our goal is to create a culture that is equitable, inclusive and diverse - where all of our employees, customers and stakeholders thrive. Visit Our People page to learn more about Tapestry’s commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

The Sales Support Associate ensures an organized, efficient, and customer‑ready store by managing deliveries, maintaining accurate stock, and supporting daily floor replenishment and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and process inbound deliveries promptly; monitor and prioritize daily workload.
• Organize and maintain accessibility of merchandise in stockroom and selling floor.
• Maintain knowledge of stock levels, unit counts, and sales performance.
• Support floor moves and ensure selling floor is consistently stocked throughout the day.
• Execute price changes and markdowns as required.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization standards across selling floor, stockroom, and offsite/warehouse.
• Audit compliance and work toward achieving shrinkage goals.

Core Competencies

• Team-oriented mindset with willingness to collaborate.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multi-task, remain results-driven, and adapt to change.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Previous retail service experience; passion for retail and the service industry.
• Excellent client service and communication skills; ability to maneuver the sales floor and engage multiple customers.
• Strong communication and an elevated sense of personal style.
• Social media awareness and willingness to learn omni/virtual selling techniques.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, Strong English language proficiency. (for EU)

Schedule: Abilitytoworkaflexible scheduleto meet business needs—including nights, weekends, peakbusy season, and high‑traffic retail days(including, but not limited to, public holidays).

Note: This document serves only as a sample of job duties and responsibilities and does not include an exhaustive list of all performance requirements.

What Kate Spade can offer you:

• An inclusive, innovative, and fun working environment
• Internal mobility & career progression
• 1 paid volunteering day per year and opportunities to volunteer with global projects.
• Learning & development opportunities with our Ambassador Programme
• Regular social events
• Equity Inclusion & Diversity initiatives which include employee resource groups & regional inclusion councils.
• Attractive employee discount
• Compelling incentive programme

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 out 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 maintain 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.

Visit Tapestry, Inc. Our growth is creating great opportunities! Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it!

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.