Coordinator, Women's Outlet

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Job Title: Coordinator, Global Visual Merchandising – Women’s Outlet

Reports to: Senior Manager, Global Visual Merchandising – Women’s Outlet

Primary Purpose:

The Coordinator, Global Visual Merchandising - will support in creating compelling visual guidelines and assist in developing visual strategies to drive brand awareness, meet sales objectives and maximize profitability. This position will interact with cross-functional teams to identify key messages and set clear goals that continuously elevate the consumer experience.

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

• Support the creation of monthly Global VM Guidelines:
  • Assist with creating content by working with 2D product CADs for digital guidelines.
  • Partner with Global Merchandising and Licensing to create dynamic and innovative VM Direction
  • Support with sample management which includes ordering, organizing and returning samples
• Support setup of seasonal showrooms installations and special events.
• Support key launches of seasonal floorsets in select local store locations.
• Conduct seasonal trend hunting and inspiration research.

The accomplished individual will possess...

• A minimum of 2-3 years of visual merchandising experience for fashion related brand, specialty retailer; field visual merchandising and/or corporate visual experience preferred.
• Experience working with leathergoods and lifestyle categories: bags, small leathergoods, ready-to-wear, footwear, jewelry, watches and sunwear.
• Demonstrated proficiency of Microsoft Office (Power Point and Excel).
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with ability to interface with a diverse group.
• Passion for visual merchandising and fashion.

An outstanding professional will have...

• Bachelor of Arts preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated proficiency of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign).
• Strong aesthetic and visual design/styling experience.
• Ability to take direction, multi-task and manage shifting priorities.
• Strong initiative, ownership and accountability for completing projects

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. #LI-HYBRID #LI-AD1

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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 $58,000.00 TO $66,500.00
Work Structure: Hybrid

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