Senior Manager, Retention

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.

We’re seeking a strategic and data-driven Senior Manager of Retention to lead our Email, SMS, and Consumer Lifecycle Marketing efforts. This role is pivotal in driving customer engagement, loyalty, and lifetime value through personalized, timely, and relevant communications across owned channels.

This role will own the end-to-end strategy and execution of lifecycle programs, working cross-functionally with Creative, Product, Analytics, and Marketing teams to deliver best-in-class retention experiences.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Retention marketing to:

• Retention Strategy & Execution
  • Develop and lead the overall retention strategy across Email, SMS, and other owned channels.
  • Design and optimize lifecycle journeys including onboarding, win-back, reactivation, and loyalty programs.
  • Own segmentation strategies to deliver personalized messaging based on behavioral, transactional, and demographic data.
• Channel Management
  • Oversee campaign planning, calendar management, and execution for Email and SMS.
  • Partner with creative and content teams to ensure messaging aligns with brand voice and drives engagement.
  • Manage A/B testing and experimentation to continuously improve performance.
• Analytics & Optimization
  • Define KPIs and reporting frameworks to measure campaign effectiveness and customer retention.
  • Analyze performance data to uncover insights and inform future strategies.
  • Collaborate with Analytics teams to build predictive models and customer scoring.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Work closely with Product, Buying, Digital, and Customer Experience teams to ensure seamless customer journeys.
  • Partner with Acquisition and Brand teams to ensure consistent messaging across the funnel.
• Technology & Tools
  • Manage relationships with ESPs, SMS platforms, and other Martech vendors.
  • Stay current on industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation.
• Team Management
  • Direct development plan and provide oversight of 3x team members (2x Associates & 1x Coordinator)

The accomplished individual will possess:

• 6+ years of experience in a digital marketing role, experience in email marketing required. An equivalent combination of work experience and education will be considered.
• Experience with a large scale ESP is required; SFMC experience preferred
• Understanding of email fundamentals: CAN-SPAM, segmentation, list/data extension management, KPIs, etc.
• Experience in HTML/CSS/AMPScript preferred
• Advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, SUMif statements, etc.)

An outstanding professional will have:

• Strong analytical and project management skills
• Detail oriented with focus on delivering results
• Self-starter, takes initiative, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities
• Ability to partner with multiple cross functional teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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 $115,000.00 TO $138,000.00 Annually                                                                     

Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.

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