Lead Supervisor I-1 Natick

kate spade new york•Natick, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Coach is a global fashion house founded in New York in 1941, part of the Tapestry portfolio. Inspired by the vision of Creative Director Stuart Vevers and the inclusive and courageous spirit of its hometown, Coach creates beautiful, crafted items. The Lead Supervisor role involves maintaining a strong leadership presence on the sales floor, achieving sales targets, and delivering an exceptional customer experience. This position requires embodying Coach values, increasing brand awareness, leading company initiatives, and supporting the full operation of the business. Key aspects include establishing trust, fostering collaboration, monitoring sales data, implementing team development, and creating a customer-centric culture. The role also involves supporting recruiting, interviewing, performance evaluation, and high-level training, while ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.

Requirements

1+ years of equivalent experience in Managing Competitive Retail Space at the Lead Supervisor level
Can bend, reach, stretch as well as lift, carry and move at least 25 pounds and, at times, lift and carry product, cartons, props or fixtures up to 50 pounds
Ability to lift at least 25 lbs. regularly (up to 50 lbs, occasionally), to climb, bend, kneel, and maneuver sales floor and stockroom
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
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

Responsibilities

Maintains strong leadership presence on the sales floor to achieve sales targets and deliver an exceptional customer experience
Serves as a Brand Ambassador embodying of Coach values and increasing brand awareness
Leads implementation of Company initiatives and support full operation of the business
Maintain a growth mindset for business and personal development initiatives
Establishes trust, maintains integrity, and supports an environment of collaboration within store and throughout the organization to promote a fair, positive experience, and an inclusive culture amongst the team
Monitor and analyze sales data, identify trends, and make recommendations to enhance store performance and implement individualized team development to increase overall customer experience
Exemplifies strong business acumen and executes forward-planned strategies to achieve leaderships initiatives surrounding store goals / KPIs
Supports the store with recruiting, interviewing, performance evaluation, high-level training as needed
Provides necessary feedback and guidance geared to improve individual performance on all levels; holds team accountable for achieving individual and business goals
Adheres to and enforces team compliance of Company policies and procedures in addition to store operational procedures
Assists in executing innovative strategies for exceptional customer experiences for both internal and external partners
Create a customer-centric Culture that prioritizes customer satisfaction and mentor team on clienteling strategy to build long-term customer relationships to meet business goals
Provides HR and conflict resolution support to team and in district in absence of leadership team
Champions the company resources to support a healthy work environment for internals customer