Pre-Production Coordinator – New Products

Pre-Production Coordinator – New Products (The position has been filled)

• Build on your Skills within the Growing Health, Wellness & Beauty Sector
• ASX Listed Company with Friendly & Professional Work Environment
• Excellent Opportunity to Show Case your Procurement Skills

 

OUR CLIENT

Our client is an established Consumer Goods company operating in a variety of markets including the growing health, wellness, personal care and other household items sectors.  With a heritage of operating in Australia for well over a Century, the company has operations in Australia, New Zealand and Asia, whilst locally operates out of both Sydney and Melbourne.

 

ROLE

Reporting directly to the Pre- Production Manager – New Products, the successful candidate will ensure that new products transition from design to first production smoothly. This will be achieved by coordinating activity between the Company, suppliers in China and local manufacturers. Various employment options are available to suit your lifestyle and career ambitions including permanent and contract.

 

Some of the responsibilities include:

• Effectively manage critical path for each project, ensuring schedules, samples and first production are met
• Manage sourcing and supply
• Creation and analysis of costing
• Sourcing & communicating with local and overseas suppliers on all production requirements.
• Coordinate and ascertain approvals on samples and mass production samples
• Coordinate packaging cost/ time-line and packaging sample management
• Assist in creating and implementing sourcing technical documents for new products
• General administration support as required
• Negotiating better pricing, terms and conditions
• Ensuring all negotiated agreements are documented and signed
• Quality Assurance and issue resolution with suppliers

 

SELECTION CRITERIA

To be successful in your application you will need to meet the following criteria:

• 2-3 years’ relevant procurement or project management experience – Cosmetics and personal care industry/retail will be highly regarded
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills
• Proven professional approach in business dealings
• Strong negotiation skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to work effectively both independently and within a team
• Highly organized with a strong analytical mindset
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to develop and complete projects
• Proven ability to prioritize in order to meet deadlines and provide high quality results to management
• Interest in the Health, Wellness & Beauty sector

 

APPLICATIONS

To apply for this role, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button below and send your updated resume with a covering letter to CS Executive Group. For a confidential discussion about this role, please call Daniele on 0434 746 361 or our team on 03 9516 0100 and quote ref: PPC1118.

 

THANK YOU

We would like to thank you for taking the time to apply for this role. Unfortunately, due to the large volume of applications we receive daily, we cannot contact all candidates.  Please note, however, if you are not successful on this occasion, your resume will remain on our database and you will be contacted for other roles.