Kate Spade Sales Associate

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Kate Spade — Sales Associate III in New York, NY. Client-facing retail role selling handbags and accessories with a focus on high-touch service and sales performance.

Overview

Kate Spade is a design-led lifestyle brand known for its optimistic aesthetic across handbags, accessories and ready-to-wear. The label operates global boutiques and wholesale channels and is part of the Tapestry portfolio, offering employees a blend of creative brand heritage and structured retail operations within a large luxury group.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Deliver exceptional, high-touch customer service to cultivate long-term client relationships and drive repeat business.
  • Achieve and exceed individual and store sales targets through proactive selling, product storytelling and clienteling.
  • Maintain visual merchandising standards, ensure on-floor presentation reflects seasonal directives and brand guidelines.
  • Execute point-of-sale transactions, returns and exchanges accurately while ensuring cash handling and sales reconciliation procedures are followed.
  • Manage stockroom operations and inventory accuracy, including receiving, replenishment and loss-prevention best practices.
  • Support store operations through opening/closing duties, daily reporting and collaborative teamwork with peers and leadership.
  • Represent the brand professionally at all times and uphold Kate Spade’s customer experience and service values.

Qualifications

  • Proven retail sales experience, preferably within a luxury or premium fashion brand.
  • Demonstrable clienteling skills and the ability to build rapport with diverse clientele.
  • Strong verbal communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
  • Numeracy and accuracy for sales transactions, basic reporting and target tracking.
  • Flexible availability including evenings, weekends and peak retail periods.

Skills

Clienteling Visual merchandising Point-of-sale (POS) operations Cash handling and reconciliation Inventory control and loss prevention Cross-selling and upselling techniques Customer relationship management

Experience

Typically requires a minimum of two years of frontline retail experience, ideally in luxury or premium fashion, with a consistent track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets and managing client relationships.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent; vocational or post-secondary coursework in fashion, retail or business preferred.

Workplace

The successful candidate will be located in New York, New York, USA. 1.629 luxury roles are listed in New York on Cerulean, 1154 posted in the last 48 hours. Across the New York region, Cerulean lists 1.748 open positions — 1172 listed in the past two days. Cerulean currently advertises 3.470 open roles in USA, including 1322 added in the last 48 hours.

Culture

The workplace blends a creative, design-driven identity with the discipline of global retail operations. Employees are expected to be customer-centric, collaborative and adaptable in a fast-paced boutique environment that values brand stewardship and personal development.

About Cerulean

Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.