Assistant, Global Licensing

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. 

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. Visit Our People page to learn more about Tapestry's commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

The principal role of the Assistant, Global Licensing is to provide day-to-day support for the Licensing Team, while coordinating product development, marketing and other administrative needs. This position will dual report into the two (2) Global Licensing Managers.

The Assistant, Global Licensing must possess excellent organizational skills with extreme attention to detail and the ability to balance multiple tasks. Taking initiative, following through and problem-solving skills are a must!

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

LICENSEE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT:

• Distribute seasonal trend information and color/print standards packages prepared by in-house design lead to each of the licensees.
• Conduct minimal research on concepts, color and trends in the market to facilitate the design process with each licensed category.
• Schedule and attend all seasonal development reviews from initial concepts to final approvals for each category based on development calendars and recap meetings when needed.  Prepare agendas, packets and manage attendees list.
• Ensure all product approvals are documented via photograph or CAD.
• Keep product design and market calendars updated.
• Help facilitate communication between both internal and external design leads and follow up on individual category design information requests.
• Maintain ongoing sample checklist for final production samples and sample closet.

MARKETING/ADVERTISING/BRAND IDENTITY:

• Maintain brand tool kits and advertising guidelines standards by category, by brand.
• Initiate and manage all incoming marketing project requests with internal marketing department and follow project through to final approval.  This includes marketing/PR needs, packaging, showrooms, POS and In-store visual/fixture needs, vendor guidelines and seasonal advertising requests.
• Coordinate advertising samples for seasonal photo shoots, special projects and fashion presentations.
• Monthly oversight of internal ecomm site as well as key online accounts to ensure licensed categories are showing up properly.

LICENSING ADMINISTRATION:

• Support Licensing team with day-to-day requests and communications.
• Ensure clear, timely and consistent communication between all licensees and Licensing Teams to support brand strategy.
• Assist in preparation of business reviews, presentations, market recaps, bi-monthly selling information.
• Maintain licensee and internal directories, door distribution lists, compliance approvals, seasonal line sheets and brand decks.
• Assist in working with our internal customer service department and our licensees to resolve customer service issues.
• Develop working relationship with DTC teams; follow up to see what is selling and what is not to aid future sales.
• Publish quarterly Licensing Newsletter to all licensees and internal teams where applicable.
• Share appropriate corporate communications with the licensees (new management hires, store openings, news stories, launches, etc).
• Manage planning of annual Licensing Summit with Executive Assistant.  Includes managing budgets, creating materials for meeting, managing attendee lists and RSVPs.
• Coordinate quarterly touch bases with cross-functional teams
• Manage distribution of licensee discount cards.
• Ensure visitors are registered in the security system.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• BA or BS degree or equivalent experience in a related business or brand.
• 1+ year of administrative experience in a related business or brand.
• Displays positive attitude, a professional manner and a willingness to assist multiple team members.
• Highly organized with a strong attention-to-detail and sense of urgency.
• Self-motivated with the ability to multi-task.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Desire to work with a highly talented group of individuals in an environment of growth and high standards, and a willingness to work hard and have fun.
• Proficient in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Workfront, InDesign, Zoom.

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.

Kate Spade 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 the 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 #LI-HYBRID #LI-2655       

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BASE PAY RANGE $58,000.00 TO $65,000.00 Annually                                                                     

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