Chief of Staff to CEO Full Time

We believe that difference sparks brilliance, so we welcome people and ideas from everywhere to join us in stretching what’s possible.

At Tapestry, being true to yourself is core to who we are. When each of us brings our individuality to our collective ambition, our creativity is unleashed. This global house of brands – Coach, Kate Spade New York, Stuart Weitzman – was built by unconventional entrepreneurs and unexpected solutions, so when we say we believe in dreams, we mean we believe in making them happen. We’re always on a journey to becoming our best, but you can count on this: Here, your voice is valued, your ambitions are supported, and your work is recognized.

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. Visit Our People page to learn more about Tapestry’s commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

Primary Purpose: The Chief of Staff to the CEO will advance Tapestry’s purpose, vision and strategy by being a strategic, operationally skilled partner to the CEO and their executive team, driving a culture of prioritization, growth, focus and discipline in line with Tapestry’s values.

The successful individual will leverage their experience and capabilities to:

• • • Being her trusted thought partner on any and all topics
    • Extending, role modeling and driving her vision, strategy and values across the enterprise
    • Proactively identifying issues and areas of concern and recommending mitigation strategies
    • Managing Tapestry operating rhythms to ensure her strategic intent is woven through her touch base meetings, advisory cabinet and Executive Committee meetings, Brand Reviews, Board meetings, Leadership meetings, and other employee meetings and engagements
    • Representing CEO from time to time at events and in meetings.
    • Building a forward 12-18 month plan for travel and external events
    • Ensuring her time is appropriately balanced across her priorities, as well as internal and external stakeholders
    • Ensuring she is well prepared for all engagements and meetings
    • Traveling with CEO from time to time on key trips to support trip objectives
    • Optimizing Tapestry’s benefits from external relationships such as the Business Roundtable, Partnership for New York City, the Fashion Pact, General Motors Board, etc.Maximize the CEO’s effectiveness in driving Tapestry’s growth agenda by:

• • • Ensuring all meetings achieve the relevant groups’ expressed goals and purpose – topics are well-sponsored and prepared, pre-reads are succinct and delivered timely, decisions and follow ups happen
    • Onboarding and supporting new ExCom members in joining Tapestry and/or the ExCom
    • Partnering with Chief Growth Officer and Chief People Officer to design and run executive team development programs
    • Ensuring strong connectivity with Leadership and other employee meeting contentOptimize Tapestry Executive Committee and other executive groups’ effectiveness at driving Tapestry’s growth agenda by:

• • • Partnering with Growth Officer, Comms team and HR to evangelize next vision and Growth Mindset across the enterprise
    • Ensuring CEO has sufficient exposure to and connection time with various employee groups to effectively communicate the vision
    • Maintaining appropriate focus within CEO’s agenda on key business enablers of sustainability, inclusion & belongingStrengthen the impact of key CEO priorities by:

• • • Preparing topics for CEO’s quarterly meetings with directors
    • Partnering on agendas, content development and logistics for all meetingsSupport CEO and General Counsel’s team in driving the strategic agenda with the Board by:

• • • Managing the CEO’s Sr. Executive Assistant
    • Overseeing the CEO’s and Board’s expense cost centers
    • Ensuring the CEO’s office runs smoothly, and all activities reflect her vision
    • Providing top quality Board meeting and executive team offsite logistical supportLead the CEO’s office (CEO’s Sr. Executive Assistant and Executive Assistant) by:
• Conduct, manage and work on projects on behalf of the CEO in liaison with relevant ExCom members, as requested

The accomplished individual will possess:

• 8-15 years as an experienced and successful leader, preferably working in a global multi-brand business
• Proven expertise in strategic thinking, complex problem-solving and decision-making
• High emotional and culture intelligence, paired with a strong executive presence and business intuition
• Demonstrated ability to work well across functions, building relationships and influencing at all levels of the business
• Outstanding organization and information management skills, with strong attention to detail
• Strong change management and project management experience
• Conversant with business and financial metrics, and data and analytics

An outstanding professional will have:

• Unimpeachable integrity, confidentiality and trustworthiness
• Self-awareness
• Exceptional courage and diplomacy
• Embody Tapestry values and culture
• Finely honed listening skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Intellectually curious and a critical thinker, able to connect disparate concepts, information and signals
• A champion of positive change, fostering continuous innovation and improvement
• Comfortable navigating velocity, uncertainty, ambiguity and change
• Poise and grace under pressure
• Good judgment

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.

Tapestry, Inc. 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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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

Work Setup: HYBRID

BASE PAY RANGE $275,000 TO $375,000 ANNUALLY

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