Operations Coordinator

Red Carpet Ready Ltd; Walcot; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK dress specialist is seeking an Operations Coordinator to oversee staff management and workload planning. The role involves creating schedules, managing tasks, and ensuring deadlines are met across departments. Ideal candidates are resilient, organized, and have strong communication skills. This position offers a competitive salary package and numerous benefits including generous annual leave and a vibrant team culture.

Benefits

Overtime opportunities

Generous staff discounts (20%)

30 days annual leave

Staff recognition and reward evenings

Company trips

Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple workload streams simultaneously.
• Unfazed when delivering communications and briefings.
• High efficiency in using IT and Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Create workload plans and ensure deadlines are met.
• Assist with recruitment and coordinate training.
• Produce staff training manuals and documentation.

Skills

Resilience to pressure

Strong communication skills

Highly organized

Proactive individual

Attention to detail

Microsoft Office proficiency

Job description

Due to ongoing expansion, we are looking for an Operations Coordinator to join us at Red Carpet Ready the UK's Largest Dress Specialists! Along with a salary package of up to £38,000, we offer a range of benefits including :

Benefits

• Overtime opportunities
• Generous staff discounts (20%)
• 30 days annual leave, including Bank Holidays
• Staff recognition and reward evenings
• A focus on promoting & developing staff within the company, with a focus on career progression.
• Company trips
• A vibrant team culture
• Closure on Mothers / Fathers Day
• Closure during Christmas (unlike most other retailers)

What you'll be doing as Operations Coordinator at Red Carpet Ready :

This role encompasses staff management, heading up workload planning, delegating and meeting all deadline requirements across several departments including different shifts across our retail function, whose working hours cover from 08:30 to 22:00. This role is primarily based at our Shopping Venue & HQ Branston, Lincoln.

Key responsibilities

Operations

Create workload plans across your department. At peak season there are 100s of tasks that will need fulfilment you will be the person to ensure deadlines are met by your team.

Be dynamic in your approach to workload, delivering both your personal & the teams deadlines. Attention to detail is critical.

As part of our photoshoot team, you will be responsible for the logistics and transport of all dresses and equipment to and from the venue.

Staff Management

Assisting with recruitment.

Assisting, fulfilling and coordinating training (including training agendas and plans)

Create full monthly rotas in line with the business needs including handling all staff holiday requests.

Create and deploy staff workload plans, complete staff checkbacks ensuring all tasks are completed on time.

IT

Produce staff training manuals, user guides, project plans and processes, and other key documentation.

create and maintain consistency across the team, working to deadlines.

Project Management & Business Development research

Qualifications

At Red Carpet Ready were looking for an Operations Coordinator with :

• Resilience to pressure is essential. You need to be able to manage multiple workload streams simultaneously including both your own and others to encompass the operations of the business.
• Unfazed when delivering communications and briefings to staff.
• The ability to manage an ever-changing workload based on the demands of a peak season retail business, ensuring that 100s of daily tasks are captured, planned, delegated, signed off and completed to deadlines.
• The ability to work through problems and processes logically to unpick issues and solve them.
• Highly organised and dynamic.
• A strong communicator and proactive individual, with high attention to detail
• Highly efficient at using Microsoft Office software, email and IT-savvy to a high standard.
• Desire to work in a fast paced, dynamic and entrepreneurial business

This is a fantastic opportunity to join us! We are winners of UK Employer of the Year 2025, Most Inspiring Businesswoman 2025, Best Business 2022, Businessperson of the Year 2023, the Women in Business Awards & Prom Queen on Channel 5. We were also named as one of the UKs Top 100 fastest growing female-led companies in 2023. We are one of the best- paying companies in the Lincoln area and there are many opportunities for ongoing promotion.

How to apply

To join the team as Operations Coordinator, please click apply online and upload an updated copy of your CV along with a covering letter. The cover letter MUST include why you would be suitable to join our award-winning team, why you believe you are perfect for this job and what interest you about Red Carpet Ready!