Job Title: Sample Coordinator
Location: Preston
Salary: £18,000 to £22,000 depending on experience
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Interview Date: Mid December
Based in Preston, a long established company in designing and manufacturing of textiles are looking for a sample coordinator to support the Design team with the management of all samples arriving into the business, this includes liaising with both internal and external suppliers and customers. This new role will take responsibility for ensuring that critical path deadlines are met and any issues communicated in a timely manner to the team.
If you’re well organised, have great communication skills and can work to tight deadlines in a really fast paced environment then please apply with your CV and a cover letter explaining a bit about what you could bring to the role.
Main Responsibilities:
Sample management
- Management of all samples arriving into the business
- Logging all inbound samples – detailing information on individual samples
- Organisation of the sample room by category
- Following up on all active samples
- Ensuring all customer & sample files are up to date
Sample log maintenance
- Ensuring all new product development information is inputted onto the sample log in a timely manner
- Liaise with Designers to establish relevant dates and communicate to the relevant suppliers
- Daily updates with the relevant team members dependent on sample activity
- Hold suppliers accountable for sample dates
- Dealing with queries to suppliers on a daily basis and following up to ensure critical path is maintained
Supplier Costing
- Ensuring all fabric qualities actioned by the studio are followed up with appropriate costings
- Ensuring all costings are filled out correctly with all the relevant information
- Costings are saved in the sample log and forwarded on to the relevant designer and national account manager
Supplier communication & relationships
- Daily liaison with Far East suppliers
- Supplier communication over Email, Telephone, WhatsApp and WeChat
- Internal communication/relationship with;
- National Account Managers
- Quality Control
- Design Studio
- Merchandising
- Asia Office Team
- Key customer communication
- Daily support of the Design Team with general tasks (including; maintaining working environment, ordering materials, checking stock levels, etc)
Customer samples
- Managing all outbound customer samples with updates being provided to the customer
- Tracking all parcels to ensure they have arrived at the correct location as required
Market knowledge & Commercial Insight
- Awareness of current market trends
- Awareness of customer trends and requirements
- Helping with research into new trends
Key Requirements:
- Graduate educated (or equivalent)
- Keen to take ownership and develop the role
- Excellent organisation skills are essential
- Ability to multi task in a fast paced environment
- Manage a varied workload with multiple priorities
- Great time management and prioritisation skills
- Great communicator both written and verbal
- IT literate with good skills on Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Commercially minded with an interest in Fashion and Interior Textiles
- Ability to use your own initiative
- UK drivers license/own car
- Chinese speaking (desirable)
Benefits of the company:
- 22 days holiday plus bank holidays, increased with length of service
- Pension scheme
- Company sick pay
- Voluntary staff savings scheme
- Free onsite parking
- Life Insurance
- Staff awards scheme
- Social events through the year for staff and families
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with experience of: Inventory Controller, Inventory Coordinator, Supply Chain Administrator, Office Administrator, Administrator, Admin Assistant, Administrative Assistant, Business Administrator, Support Administrator, Business Support may also be considered for this role.
