Tapestry Assistant, Travel Retail Competitive Intelligence
- Seniority
- Junior
- Posted
- Apr 1, 2026
About Tapestry
Tapestry is a global house of accessible-luxury fashion brands, including Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman. The organisation operates an extensive international wholesale and retail network — including duty-free and travel-retail channels — and combines creative design with a commercial, data-informed approach across brand and channel teams.
Tapestry seeks an Assistant, Travel Retail CI in New York, NY — junior role supporting travel-retail competitive intelligence, reporting and commercial analysis.
Role & Responsibilities
- Collect and consolidate market, channel and competitor data specific to the travel-retail (duty-free) channel across regions.
- Monitor pricing, promotions and assortment activity of competitors and travel-retail partners; escalate material shifts to senior commercial stakeholders.
- Maintain and update sales, sell-through and inventory trackers; prepare weekly and monthly performance reports for the travel-retail team.
- Build and sustain dashboards and visual reports for commercial and executive review (sales, KPIs, pricing elasticity, distribution footprint).
- Support product launch and range entry processes for travel-retail, coordinating with merchandising, supply chain and local distributors.
- Prepare clear, data-driven presentations and briefing packs for internal meetings and for airline/airport retail partners.
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis to test commercial hypotheses and support pricing, promotion and assortment decisions.
- Act as a liaison with regional travel-retail teams, distributors and retail partners to validate field intelligence and resolve data discrepancies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, economics, retail management or a closely related discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
- 1–3 years’ relevant experience in retail, travel retail (duty-free), wholesale, market research or competitive intelligence.
- Strong numerical aptitude with demonstrable experience producing commercial reports and KPI trackers.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to synthesise quantitative data into concise executive insights.
- Effective communicator with experience preparing presentation decks for cross-functional stakeholders.
Skills
Experience
1–3 years of analytical or commercial experience within retail, travel retail (airport/duty-free), wholesale or market research roles, with hands-on responsibility for data consolidation, reporting and competitor monitoring.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, economics, retail management or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Workplace
The successful candidate will be located in New York, New York, USA.
Culture
Tapestry promotes a commercial and creative workplace where cross-brand collaboration and customer-focused thinking are central. Teams combine design sensibility with disciplined analytics, and travel-retail functions operate in a fast-paced, relationship-driven environment that values accuracy, initiative and pragmatic problem-solving.
About Cerulean
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