Product Development Administrator

Department: Product Development

Reports to: Senior Product Developer

Location: 5 days per week (Mon - Fri) in central London office

Our Values:

• Every day the energy, creativity and passion of Manolo permeates through our business.
• We believe in the artist and the artisan; we are innovative while still protecting our heritage.
• We strive for timeless beauty and quality craftmanship.
• We celebrate curiosity and believe in working proactively and being solution focused.
• We believe in upholding family values; we treat everyone with honesty, respect and kindness while nurturing our teams to deliver excellence.
• We believe in making people smile.

Purpose:

To give support to the Product Development Women’s team with administration, PLM data entry, sample movement, tracking and shipment. The nature of this role requires physical strength.

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage labels for samples
• Maintain up-to-date sample tracker
• Liaising with vendors on shipments, tracking and monitoring deliveries to ensure they arrive on time
• Log and photograph samples
• Upload sample images in PLM system
• Create product/colour records and BoM in the PLM system
• Liaise with external Graphic Designer to instruct retouching of images for market
• Upload retouched images into the PLM system
• Review PLM to ensure product meets BOM and visual expectations
• Carryover classic styles in PLM system
• Responsible for shipments of prototypes and samples to and from the Italian suppliers and US office
• Support with product and material information (material and product compositions, HS codes, material tech sheets upload)
• Sample management, including lending samples externally and internally but also re-labelling end of season and fit samples and shipping them to warehouse

Skills and Experience Required:

• Fluent written and spoken Italian and English
• 0 - 1 year experience, within a relevant industry or role would be beneficial
• Ability to manage deadlines in a fast pace environment
• Ability to positively collaborate with all teams and supervisors
• Possess the ability to multi-task and react to change
• Strong attention to detail
• Good communication skills, able to effectively share information with the team in a clear, concise way
• Strong organisational skills
• Must have a strong work ethic and motivation to learn
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel. PLM skills would be useful
• High level of finesse and excellence required in delivery of all tasks

Our Benefits:

• 4 pairs of Ambassador Shoes per year.
• 50% Friends and Family Discount.
• 25 days holiday with an additional day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays.
• Option to buy an additional 5 days holiday.
• Hybrid working model (core hours 10am-4pm).
• Pension Contribution.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• 2 Executive Coaching Sessions per year.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policy.
• Workplace Nursery – salary sacrifice based childcare scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employment Engagement Calendar.

Manolo Blahnik is an equal opportunity employer and are committed to preserving a caring, diverse and inclusive culture with people who feel a real sense of belonging. We recruit and reward based on capability and performance. By joining Manolo Blahnik, you will be part of our 50 to 500 Commitment to “be a force for good” which seeks to create a lasting legacy and positively contributing to its continued expansion and success balancing our impact on people and the planet. Our diverse and multicultural teams ignite our creativity, and we celebrate the differences that we collectively bring. We are committed to equal employment and progression opportunities and the elimination of any form of discrimination. We all hold a responsibility to recognise and respect our diversity and to support this in our words and actions.

If you need reasonable adjustments at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.