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.
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The Executive Assistant will provide high-level administrative and operational support to the Creative Director, ensuring seamless day-to-day execution, effective calendar and meeting management, expense oversight, and coordination of special projects. This role requires a proactive, highly organized individual who can anticipate needs, manage competing priorities, and operate with discretion in a fast-paced creative environment.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in administration to…
Manage the Creative Director’s calendar, prioritizing key meetings, optimizing schedules, and coordinating across internal teams and external partners.
Build and maintain strong relationships with internal administrative staff, cross-functional teams, vendors, and external stakeholders to facilitate scheduling and execution of meetings.
Coordinate all logistics for in-person and virtual meetings, including agenda development, room bookings, materials preparation, and catering arrangements.
Provide basic technical support as needed, including submission of IT requests and troubleshooting of remote or meeting-related issues.
Administer Microsoft Teams channels, including creation, updates, and ongoing maintenance to support team collaboration.
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Oversee travel and expense administration, including monitoring budgets, exercising discretion in line with company policy, and ensuring responsible spend management.
Prepare, submit, and reconcile travel and expense reports and corporate card statements in compliance with company policies.
Manage the department’s purchasing and procurement process (Buying Hub), including supplier onboarding, purchase order creation, and invoice tracking.
Serve as a liaison across departments on behalf of the Creative Director and team, resolving inquiries and facilitating issue resolution.
Support team culture by organizing celebrations, milestone moments, and engagement activities that foster a positive and connected environment.
Lead and support departmental programming and special projects from planning through execution and evaluation, including developing project plans, timelines, and budgets.
Build and manage project teams, coordinate resources, and develop detailed schedules and work plans to ensure alignment with priorities and deadlines.
Monitor project progress, track deliverables, and provide status updates to stakeholders while maintaining quality control throughout the project lifecycle.
Draft and prepare correspondence, presentations, agendas, reports, and other executive-level materials as needed.
The accomplished individual will possess...
Minimum 10 years of experience required, preference in fashion/administrative field
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
Strong Outlook Calendar experience.
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Mac knowledge preferred
An outstanding professional will have...
Experience interacting with executives at all levels and departments.
Must be highly organized with the ability to handle multiple priorities at once.
Must have strong verbal and written communication skills.
Must be a collaborative team player with great initiative and ability to prioritize.
Superior judgment, professionalism, poise, ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality, and assertiveness.
Excellent ability to maintain composure and effectiveness in a fast-paced environment.
Superior follow through skills, detail and customer service oriented.
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 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 $85,000.00-$120,000.00
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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