Sales Support Associate III
kate spade new york · Pottstown, PA · 1 wk ago
OTHR$15–$19.5/hrPart-time
About the role
The Sales Support Associate ensures an organized, efficient, and customer-ready store by managing deliveries, maintaining accurate stock, and supporting daily floor replenishment and operational standards.
Responsibilities
- Manage and process inbound deliveries promptly; monitor and prioritize daily workload.
- Organize and maintain accessibility of merchandise in stockroom and selling floor.
- Maintain knowledge of stock levels, unit counts, and sales performance.
- Support floor moves and ensure selling floor is consistently stocked throughout the day.
- Execute price changes and markdowns as required.
- Maintain cleanliness and organization standards across selling floor, stockroom, and offsite/warehouse.
- Audit compliance and work toward achieving shrinkage goals.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Previous retail service experience; passion for retail and the service industry.
- Excellent client service and communication skills; ability to maneuver the sales floor and engage multiple customers.
- Strong communication and an elevated sense of personal style.
- Social media awareness and willingness to learn omni/virtual selling techniques.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong English language proficiency. (for EU)
- Ability to work a flexible schedule to meet business needs—including nights, weekends, peak busy season, and high-traffic retail days (including, but not limited to, public holidays).
- Ability to lift at least 25 lbs. regularly (up to 50 lbs, occasionally), to climb, bend, kneel, and maneuver sales floor and stockroom.
Core Competencies
- Team-oriented mindset with willingness to collaborate.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to multi-task, remain results-driven, and adapt to change.
- 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 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.