Saks Fifth Avenue Careers

Saks Fifth Avenue is the American luxury department store business anchored by its famous Fifth Avenue flagship in New York, selling designer ready-to-wear, shoes, handbags, jewellery, beauty and home goods to customers who expect personal service as part of the product. Its workforce is weighted toward that service: style advisors and personal shoppers, beauty specialists, tailors and clienteling staff, backed by buying, planning and digital teams.

The business behind the nameplate has changed hands and shape repeatedly. Saks spent a decade inside Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), which combined Saks with the Neiman Marcus Group at the end of 2024 to form Saks Global. That group restructured under Chapter 11 in 2026 and emerged under the name Exemplar Luxury Group, with Saks Fifth Avenue continuing to trade within it. Hiring runs through the group's official careers channels, which the links on this page lead to.

Luxury Selling and Clienteling

The defining Saks role is the style advisor: a sales associate who manages a book of clients, learns their sizes, designers and occasions, and contacts them when relevant pieces arrive or private events are held. Top advisors function almost as independent businesses inside the store, and the work rewards fashion knowledge — designer collections, fabrics, fit across brands — as much as selling technique. Personal shoppers and the Fifth Avenue Club extend the same model to wardrobes, gifting and occasion dressing by appointment.

Around them sit the specialist roles of a luxury floor: beauty advisors and makeup artists in the cosmetics department, fine jewellery and watch specialists, shoe and handbag experts, and fitting-room and alterations staff including tailors who finish garments to a client's measurements. Store support teams handle receiving, stock integrity and the visual presentation standards that luxury price points demand.

Store Leadership, Buying and Merchandising

Store management at Saks means running departments that behave like small luxury boutiques under one roof. General managers and department managers are accountable for clienteling activity, designer relationships on their floors, event calendars and service scores, and they work closely with the buying office on trunk shows and designer appearances, which remain a working part of the luxury calendar.

Buyers, planners and merchandisers work across the store network and Saks' online business, negotiating with designer houses, planning open-to-buy by brand and season, and allocating scarce pieces between flagships and regional stores. Digital roles — e-commerce merchandising, site content, clienteling technology and fulfilment — have grown steadily as a large share of luxury purchasing has moved online, and they recruit from the same fashion-literate pool.

Corporate and Creative Careers

Saks' corporate base is in New York, where functions include marketing and events, public relations, fashion office and trend roles, finance, human resources, legal, technology and supply chain. The fashion office is a small but distinctive employer within luxury retail: it interprets designer collections for the Saks customer, briefs buyers and fronts the store's point of view to the press and to clients.

Creative and production work supports both stores and the website: photography studios, stylists, copywriters and retouchers producing the volume of imagery a luxury e-commerce operation consumes, plus visual merchandising teams who translate seasonal direction into windows and floor sets across the estate.

Applying Through the Group's Careers Channels

Apply through the official careers links carried in the listings card above. The Saks business has sat inside successive groups — HBC, then Saks Global, now the restructured Exemplar Luxury Group — so careers pages may carry the parent group's name rather than the store's; search within them by the Saks Fifth Avenue banner and by location. For selling roles, be ready to evidence clienteling: a following, repeat-business record or luxury service experience carries more weight than general retail time.