Manufacturing & Logistics Project Coordinator (Beauty Brands/Retailers)

Curated Sourcing; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Curated Sourcing in Greater London seeks a project management professional to support pre-production management for manufacturing projects. The role involves liaising with production teams, ensuring compliance with specifications, and using advanced Excel and project management tools. Ideal candidates will have a strong track record in product manufacturing and logistics, alongside excellent organizational and communication skills. A passion for beauty and fashion is desirable. The position offers a hybrid working model with office days in London.

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing complex product manufacturing from concept to delivery.
• Experience dealing with export/import logistics and freight companies.
• Excellent numerical skills and able to handle advanced Excel tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support pre-production management team with manufacturing stages.
• Liaise with production teams to ensure timely delivery.
• Ensure compliance with production specifications.

Skills

Project management

Advanced Excel skills

Verbal and written communication

Organizational skills

Leadership

Tools

CRM/Project Management Tool

Google Sheets

PowerPoint

Job description

Are you an project management whizz, seeking an exciting new role in a young start up? Do you have experience in working within a fast paced production environment?

Do you have experience dealing with rigorous product manufacturing and logistics coordination for FMCG beauty tools and lifestyle goods?

About Us

Curated Sourcing create on-trend bespoke merchandise on behalf of brands and retailers in the beauty, lifestyle and fashion space. Our customers include Net-A-Porter, SpaceNK, Cult Beauty, Beauty Bay, FeelUnique, Charlotte Tilbury, Jo Loves and Kate Somerville.

About You

You must have strong experience managing complex product manufacturing businesses from concept to delivery. Are highly experienced in product manufacturing and have experience dealing with export/import logistics and freight companies and import/export procedures.

Our ideal candidate will be an ambitious, energetic self starter, with super organisation skills. Whether it is managing multiple spreadsheets, booking appointments or communicating with our global team, we are seeking someone who is happy to wear many hats whilst remaining calm and happy under pressure. Resilient and driven,you will thrive off a start-up environment. You will feel comfortable working in a small office environment, initiating new processes and using your initiative to drive these processes forward.

As we work with some of the world's most leading beauty brands, a natural interest in beauty and fashion merchandising is strongly desirable. You will also have a great eye for the latest luxury beauty and lifestyle trends.

You Are

• Bright, highly driven and have a can-do attitude.
• A natural flair for product and an eye for detail.
• Extremely organised and able to work under pressure.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication
• A natural leader and out of the box thinker with great aspirations of growing into senior management of a globally trading organisation.
• Use your initiative to resolve challenges and always look to offer solutions.
• Passionate and takes pride in your work.
• This is a highly numerate role and the right candidate must be quick with numbers, advanced in MS excel (the term 'v-lookup' shouldn't make you weak at the knees!) and generally able to retain and recall meticulous pieces of information.
• You should also be happy and comfortable speaking with members of our production teams in China.

Does this sound like a perfect fit? If yes, we can't wait to hear from you!

Role Brief

• Your primary role is supporting our pre-production management team to fully manage all manufacturing stages of each project from production start to delivery.
• Liaising with production teams in the far east to ensure each project is on track for timely delivery.
• Ensuring each production project is being manufactured according to the exact specifications defined by our customer and pre-production management team.
• Supporting the pre-production team to advise compliances requirements per project at the pre-production stage.
• Ensuring all products are being manufactured to the correct compliance regulations and highest quality assurance checks.
• Working with our third party goods inspectors to verify production is adhering to the above requirements.
• Obtaining pricing from our production teams, logistics teams and calculating onward pricing to customer. Advanced Excel skills and speed are mandatory for this role.
• Main software used will be our internal CRM/ Project Management Tool, Excel (advanced use), Google sheets (advanced use), Snagit, PowerPoint.
• Managing our CRM/ PM tools to keep project information up to date in real time.
• Conducting pre-checks with suppliers to confirm stock availabilities, payment terms and lead times
• Accountable for import clearance and delivery bookings
• Performing final shipment checks and inbound management

Please only apply if you feel you possess the skills and experience we are looking for. Only those that apply that meet the criteria will be considered for an interview.

Location

This role is hybrid working with the expectation of working some days from a London based office.