Area Leader, Las Vegas

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. 

 

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Area Leader (Multi-Store Manager)

 

Primary Purpose: This Area Leader will oversee a home store in Las Vegas and multiple store locations in Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. The Area Leader will be responsible for the strategic development of the business and the achievement of the stores’ financial goals in partnership with the District Leader. This Area Leader will also act as the Store Leader in their home store. They are responsible for leading the home store to achieve sales plans by leveraging key KPI’s (conversion and adt) and ensuring that that channel priorities have an in-store strategy in place to achieve.

 

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in retail to…

• Meet and/or exceed sales plans, control expenses and improve metrics for multi-store districts through leadership, training and development, coaching and personal example.
• Oversee sales development of the area by partnering with store leaders on business driving initiatives as well as store specific business plans.
• Communicate and achieve store productivity targets including sales per hour, adt, upt, and capture rate.
• Ensure members of management are effectively utilizing the divisions of responsibilities program to take ownership of the business in their respective areas.
• Conduct regular store visits to ensure standards are maintained, expectations are being achieved and action plans are developed in order to move the business forward.
• Coaching on all customer service issues in order to exceed customer expectations.
• Model and supervise the selling environment, provide consistent coaching on sales training process in order to ensure the highest level of client service and sales.
• Ensure visual merchandising directives are implemented efficiently as per direction and visual standards are maintained in your area at all times.
• Act as a liaison between stores, corporate partners, buyers and visual director to ensure that merchandise assortments reflect the brand strategy and stock levels are appropriate to meet the needs of the business.

Leadership Presence/Steward of Talent

• Understand and able to communicate the kate spade new york brand aesthetic, brand philosophy and lifestyle to the sales team and client.
• Responsible for the recruiting, interviewing and hiring of store team. Develop a leadership talent pool to achieve succession planning goals for reporting location and district stores.
• Assist store leaders in training, coaching and development, customer service standards, standard operating procedures, impeccable visual standards and employee relations compliance.