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SalaryYou will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and extensive knowledge and experience working within a small, but fast-growing, fine jewellery brand. You will be prepared to take on a big challenge, and be meticulous in your approach, reporting and feedback.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with designer, and team, to develop and finalise samples from initial phase through to production.
- Ensure all design phases are recorded, and produce a final design pack for each piece and/or collection.
- Forecast all purchases for D2C and wholesale parts of the business, and schedule with suppliers
- Manage the purchase of all stock, which includes finished pieces and raw materials - including price negotiations where applicable. Including managing budgets for all new collections and sampling.
- Manage logistics for domestic and international goods-in-transit, including knowledge around import and export.
- Optimise product costs by value engineering, efficient transportation and material use.
- Maintain impeccable standard of product information within internal systems.
- Monitor and remain up to date with all industry standards and changes in regulations, laws and ethical standards ensuring all suppliers are compliant.
- Retain and develop relationships with existing and new suppliers.
- Quality controlling all samples and inventory which comes in, and constantly update a quality control manual. Train team in QC.
- Both maintaining and continuing partnerships with RSJ and other sustainability programmes
Who Are You:
- You'll have extensive experience in production and logistics
- Proven management skills of high value/luxury goods
- Ideally you'll have extensive knowledge and experience working with fine jewellery materials or come from a similar role working with luxury goods with a keen interest in jewellery
- Good experience of working cross-border
- Experience in a retail business with good knowledge of retail margins, and pricing
- You'll be ambitious, driven and proactive with a positive "can do" attitude
- Experience working closely with design teams and using CAD is preferable
This role requires someone who is happy to work fulltime in the office. The company are offering an excellent package, so get applying.
