Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always stood for optimistic femininity. Today, the brand is a global life and style house with handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, gifts, home decor and more. Polished ease, thoughtful details and a modern, sophisticated use of color-Kate Spade New York's founding principles define a unique style synonymous with joy.Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio - a global house of brands powered by optimism, innovation, and inclusivity.general purpose of the position: partner with store leadership to produce successful financial results. provide leadership to the team in order to execute sales generation, clientele development, operational, visual, recruitment, and administrative functions. responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:essential duties and responsibilitiesclient & service expert:development of a clientele through proactive client outreach and the ability to build and maintain relationships with new clientspartner with SM to develop business driving initiatives that build a repeat business or attract a new customer to the store, i.e. events and marketing opportunitiesensure each associate is actively utilizing their client book in order to generate increased sales through monthly client book reviews and evaluation of their outreachensure team is compliant will all clientele standards and thank you note programensure all associates complete the sales training programmodel and supervise the selling environment, provide consistent coaching on sales training process in order to ensure the highest level of customer service and salesleadership presence/steward of talentassist SM with the achievement of financial success through improvement of measurable results that positively impact the store performanceresponsible for assuming the SM role in manager's absencelead by example with the achievement of personal sales goalseducate team on product, sales plans, personal goals, measurable stats; is able to coach to these stats to ensure business is maximizedability to network in the community to ensure open positions are filled efficiently with little impact to the business; build a bench for future promotions and openingsmanage administrative recruitment duties; i.e. scheduling interviews & communicating with candidatesonboard new team members effectively through 30/60/90 touch bases; conduct ongoing review and assessment of employee performance through monthly meetings with direct reports utilize mid-year and annual review process as a tool for associate development and advancement; monitor and address performance concerns on a timely basis, partnering GMbuilding brand equity:understand and able to communicate the kate spade brand aesthetic, brand philosophy, and lifestyle to the sales team and customerensure brand and operating standards are met to support brand consistency.ensure visual merchandising directives are implemented and store presentation standards are achieved and maintained.communicate merchandise sell-through, stock position, business trend information, product issues, customer feedback to SM in order to increase customer service and sales operational excellence: * perform and supervise store opening and closing procedures including counting register funds, completing bank deposits, opening and closing registers and securing facilityassist SM with maintaining payroll budget by managing schedule and making necessary adjustments when the business warrantsmonitor, maintain, and follow company policies and procedures with a focus on loss prevention to protect the company's inventory and assetsability to accurately manage the processing of all pos transactions to maintain the integrity of the inventoryskills and abilities required:<