Field Visual Merchandising Assistant Manager

Coach is a global fashion house founded in New York in 1941. Inspired by the vision of Creative Director Stuart Vevers and the inclusive and courageous spirit of our hometown, we make beautiful things, crafted to last—for you to be yourself in.

Coach is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

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Primary Purpose:

Coach is recruiting for a Field Visual Merchandising Assistant Manager to drive efficiencies of global visual merchandising in partnership with Senior Manager Northeast and Director of North America Visual Merchandising. This individual will be responsible for executing global visual merchandising direction, executing visual merchandising trainings, coordinate new store openings, and support design process of in store amplifications and pop ups across all Coach channels.  This individual must be able to work remotely, be comfortable with change and work at a fast pace.  You will be a part of a dynamic, creative environment where you will interact with cross-functional partners to ensure that Coach’s visual merchandising standards are continuously elevated.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Visual Merchandising to:

• Merchandising & Training
  • Ability to create strong visual presentations that drive business.
  • Stay up to date on regional business trends in area. Read business reports and shop the competition.
  • Give consistent merchandising direction on brand standard to field management.
  • Train store management teams on current visual standards and guideline presentation. Conduct additional training for management and staff as needed.
• Identify business opportunities with District Manager, Store Manager and to deliver an action plan.
• Manages flow of communication between corporate visual merchandising, the stores and management staff through conference calls, touch bases, store visits, and seminars to support Company guidelines.
• Help stores interpret corporate visual guidelines through mapping sessions and/or store visits. Work with stores to interpret guidelines to meet the needs of their business.

The accomplished individual will possess:

• Strong communication/leadership skills for leading store visits/walk-throughs.
• The ability to interpret visual merchandising presentations and relate it back to the store environment and adapt to different store designs and architecture.
• Strong attention to details, e.g., standards, marketing, lighting, fixturing, windows 
• The ability to be creative and inspire others.
• Awareness of fashion trends and the ability to interpret them back into visual merchandising.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

An outstanding professional will have:

• 2+ years of area/district visual merchandising experience.
• Experience facilitating new store openings.
• Proficiency with in Microsoft office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Knowledge of InDesign a plus.
• Strong presentation skills and able to articulate ideas.
• Flexible to travel (minimum 25% of time)
• Flexible to work outside of standard office hours to meet department deadlines and installation needs
• Able to carry heavy boxes and object, climb ladders, etc.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• 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.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• 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.

Coach is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. 

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Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or employeerelations@tapestry.com                                    

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BASE PAY RANGE $75,000.00 TO $85,000.00 Annually
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