(Temp) Coordinator, Wholesale

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.

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**(Temp) Coordinator, Wholesale Showroom**

**The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in wholesale** **to**:

- Manage sample flow throughout the season from Global and Service Providers to European showrooms. Liaising with shipment provider with suppliers when issues arise.
- Work with VM, Buying and Sales team to ensure successful showroom set-ups and breakdowns across Kate Spade and agent showrooms.
- Support the facilitation of buyer appointments including setup of meeting space and guaranteeing showroom standards are maintained throughout market. Support sales team with samples for virtual market appointments when required.
- Day to day running of London showroom including managing market calendars, ordering supplies, and managing stock levels.
- Coordinate facilities maintenance in London Showroom and manage all invoicing and POs across London and Munich showrooms.
- Managing sample requests across wholesale and marketing for key clients.
- Manage ecommerce image and copy process, ensuring key wholesale accounts are set up for online seasonal product launch.
- Assist in creation of digital tools for market launch and market appointments
- Daily communication of updates to Sales team and key partners throughout market.
- Train and oversee seasonal showroom temps for in-person markets.
- Manage regular file uploads to internal communications platform, liaising with key cross functional partners within the business to ensure timely upload
- Support the wholesale team in various seasonal initiatives and wider related tasks where needed.
- Support with weekly sales reports from key partner and general related admin tasks.

**The accomplished individual will possess...**
- 2 to 3 years Wholesale experience required
- Highly motivated and target driven to achieve Wholesale team sales targets
- A strong and passionate team player motivated to work in a “start-up” environment
- Flexibility to travel in the UK and Europe
- Willingness to take on responsibilities outside a defined job scope
- Excellent communication, organisational and quantitative skills
- Ability to work under pressure, in a fast-paced, high-performance environment while maintaining a high level of accuracy
- Confident and dynamic with good initiative
- Excel literate and intermediate level of Microsoft Office
- Fluent in English, and possibly another European language preferable(Italian or French)
- Industry contacts / client base would be ideal
- Experience in a multi brand market and United Kingdom and Ireland territory

**What Tapestry can offer you**:

- Hybrid working (3 days working from the Office, 2 days remote)
- Option to finish early on a Friday (Flex Fridays)
- 1 Paid Volunteering Day per year and opportunities to volunteer with global projects
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Internal mobility & career progression
- Regular Social Events - Seasonal & Cultural
- Equity Inclusion & Diversity initiatives which include employee resource groups & regional inclusion councils

**Other benefits include**:

- 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
- Annual Incentive Plan (company performance bonus)
- Multi brand discount up to 50% off - Coach, Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman
- Private Healthcare with health assessment (Bupa)
- Bupa rewards - Financial wellbeing support and wellness discounts
- Private Dental Cover
- Eyecare vouchers
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employer Pension Contribution
- Gym discount
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme

**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