Associate Manager, Retail Training & Development
Coach is a leading design house of modern luxury accessories and lifestyle collections, with a long-standing reputation built on quality craftsmanship. Defined by a free-spirited, all-American attitude, the brand approaches design with a modern vision, reimagining luxury for today with an authenticity and innovation that is uniquely Coach. All over the world, the Coach name is synonymous with effortless New York style. Coach is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands powered by optimism, innovation, and inclusivity.
The Associate Manager, North America Retail Training & Development will be responsible for supporting all service and selling training strategies, as well as Omnichannel initiatives and programs, to help drive The Coach Experience in stores. The training scope encompasses all North America stores, including both retail and outlet channels.
This position will report into the Sr. Manager, North America Retail Training & Development.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in customer experience to...
- Support North America (NA) training strategy and implementation plan for NA Retail and Outlet stores, adapting global strategies/content as needed to align with the needs and priorities of the business
- Partner with the Sr. Manager, North America Retail Training & Development to understand NA business strategies and support sales and service goals with impactful training initiatives, including for annual Store Manager Conferences and other priority programs
- Help drive a differentiated customer experience in stores by understanding customer shopping needs, competitive best practices, and the luxury service environment (within and beyond retail)
- Champion and support the implementation of The Coach Experience selling ceremony in stores
- Leverage and maintain Coach’s online learning platform to ensure strong and effective implementation of foundational Coach training programs and tangible impact on sales and KPIs
- Regularly participate in store visits (cadence TBD) to understand evolving in-store experience, store level opportunities and implementation considerations
- Support in the development of effective networks/mechanisms for training implementation (e.g., store/regional train-the-trainer initiatives)
- Provide training support to the NA Wholesale and distribution partner network as needed, adapting materials to meet the needs of their business
- Gather and utilize field feedback to assess effectiveness of training programs and identify ongoing training needs and opportunities
The individual will possess...
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 2-4 years of experience in retail or hospitality training and development
- Strong competency in creating engaging training content and learning tools
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to develop and implement creative approaches to training programs that drive tangible results
- Ability to implement strategies, measure impact, and make necessary adjustments to achieve objectives
- Ability to analyze customer-related data and draw conclusions leading to improvement recommendations
- Ability to build effective cross-functional partnerships
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task projects in a dynamic, fast paced environment with shifting priorities
- Luxury brand experience a plus
Our Competencies for All Employees
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- Managerial 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.
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