***Only qualified Product Development Coordinator – Beauty & Fragrance candidates located near Manhattan, NY, will be considered due to the position requiring an on-site presence. ***
Our client is the world's largest intimates' specialty retailer offering a wide assortment of modern, fashion-inspired collections including signature bras, panties, lingerie, casual sleepwear, swim and athleisure, as well as award-winning prestige fragrances and body care.
Required Skills, Experience, & Abilities:
- 0-2 years of product development coordination experience (Internship experience is also acceptable)
- Attention to detail, good multitasker
- Fragrance and/or product development experience
- SAP and/or Beauty industry experience is a plus
- Good communication skills, energetic and personable.
Day-To-Day:
Days in office include opening boxes of samples, preparing trays to be presented in meetings, attending meetings to understand the work, evaluating formulas and fragrances and providing feedback, working through meeting takeaways and executing sample ordering, working closely with fragrance houses and vendors on logistics, systems work – base approvals in SAP/PLM, following up on stability and samples with tracking
Responsibilities:
Product & Fragrance Development
- Partner with manager on the development of products and fragrances; help brainstorm new ideas
- Ownership over low-complexity programs, including timeline management and execution with vendors
- Own communication on programs with fragrance houses and contract manufacturers
- Distribute samples to the team and brand for evaluation
- Manage, organize, and maintain the product closets and libraries
- Responsible for following up with vendors
- Manage the execution and processing of systems workflow
- Assist and support set-up for evaluation meetings and presentations
- Provide sampling support for consumer testing
- Join teams to support on-site development (i.e., contract fillers, fragrance houses)
- Track base & fragrance submissions; participate with the team in submission evaluation
- Learn fundamentals of product and fragrance development
- Research market trends for fragrance and patterns for innovative forms
Category & Market Expertise (Including: Internal, External, Libraries, Other)
- Data entry and maintenance of competitive information, inclusive of databases, library, and reporting
- Purchase competitive products as directed
- Develop exposure and awareness to brand and relevant competitive store environments
Data Management/Reporting
- Update reports and systems accurately
- Gain exposure to the fragrance house and vendor brief process
- Begin to build understanding of end-to-end workflow process and development milestones
Cross-Functional Support/Relationship Building
- Build cross-functional relationships with internal peers both across client brand
- Initiate and maintain professional relationships with external vendors
Talent Management/Development
- Identify continuous learning opportunities for own development
- Introduction to product and fragrance functional fundamentals, including vocabulary
- **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**
- **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**
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