Director, Consumer Insights

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Primary Purpose: The Director of Global Consumer Insights for Kate Spade is a senior member of our Strategy and Consumer Insights team and is responsible for advancing and developing Tapestry's consumer insights roadmap and innovation strategy across the brand. The role has high visibility in the organization and regularly interacts with Kate Spade and Tapestry leadership and across the organization.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Consumer Insights to...

• Develop the Consumer Insights Roadmap and Learning Agenda for Kate Spade in order to support the brand's growth goals and objectives in the coming years
• Manage, evolve, and create custom qualitative and quantitative research to address the brand's 3 year LRP
• Translate learnings into actionable insights that deepen the emotional connection between Kate Spade and their consumers
• Conduct and evolve pre-testing capabilities across the development lifecycle in order to optimize touchpoints prior to launch and ensure resonance with the target audience (e.g. product/assortment testing, communications, retail/experiential testing, pricing, etc.)
• Conduct and manage post-purchase surveys/analysis to inform brand activities that drive additive growth (e.g. CRM KPI's, Edited, etc.)
• Manage the digital community for Kate Spade (buyer and non-buyer)
• Understand the barriers to purchase across categories to inform Kate Spade's future strategies
• Leverage learnings from transversal studies (e.g. Brand Health, A&Us) to customize and present to Kate Spade Leadership Team and drive initiatives grounded in what we learn from the consumer
• Support projects led by Transversal insights team and ensure objectives and learnings align to Kate Spade's priorities
• Champion consumer insights across the Kate Spade organization to ensure strategies and activations are rooted in deep consumer understanding
• Utilize a wide variety of qualitative, quantitative, social listening tools, etc. (both syndicated and custom) in order to address key strategic questions for the brand

• Influence leaders across the Kate Spade and Tapestry organization to drive consumer-centric decision making and help formulate actionable end-to-end brand strategies based on insights
• Drive growth through a continued focus on core categories and stretch into new categories (e.g. jewelry, ready-to-wear, etc.)
• Help build a worldclass consumer insights function that creates lasting consumer relationships to power global growth

The accomplished individual will possess...

• 10+ years working and leading Consumer Insights departments/functions
• Extensive client-side experience
• Strong technical mastery of research methodologies and fundamentals (expertise in qual/quant methodologies from design to execution, storytelling to senior level executives, experience with TURF, MaxDiff, Conjoint, etc.)
• Solid experience with syndicated sources (e.g. NPD/Circana, IRI, MRI, Mintel, etc.)
• Strong experience in digital analytics, social listening, futurist/innovation projects/activities
• Strong leadership experience and people management skills
• Highly self-motivated/self-directed and able to excel in ambiguity
• Innate drive for actionable and tangible impact on the organization
• Intellectually curious and creative, with a demonstrated ability to work effectively within a highly matrixed organization and with external agency partners and suppliers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - experienced and comfortable communicating, influencing, and aligning executive-level management
• Good storyteller - succinct and impactful for senior audiences
• Highly adaptable, works well in an environment of change
• Other skills: familiar with popular customer analytics tools

An outstanding professional will have...

• Relevant Bachelor's degree preferred- Master's degree a plus
• Experience in developing business strategies, ideally for global businesses preferred
• Retail industry experience preferred
• Strong experience in customer analytics and big data
• Experience developing and building e-commerce businesses and strategies
• Outstanding initiative, follow through, ability to get things done
• Creativity, outside the box thinking, innovative
• Global perspective and experience across geographies
• Strong team player mentality, supporting cross-functional workstreams

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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 his/her 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.

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BASE PAY RANGE $170,000.00 TO $180,000.00 Annually
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