Product Coordinator

**Product Coordinator**

**£28,000 per annum plus annual performance bonus and fantastic benefits**

**Based onsite at The Newt in Somerset**

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**Our Product Coordinator**

In this role, you will provide support to the Product Team, including Buyers and Product Developers, across food, homeware, and gifting, bringing bespoke products to both retail and internal hospitality teams.

This is a crucial role that will support the team in optimising all key functions across the buying and product development department, ensuring that supplier and cost information is kept accurate and up to date across all systems & records.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Maintaining awareness of the development critical path and supporting the team to ensure key calendar milestones are always met.
- Working with key stakeholders around the estate, including the retail team, hospitality team and internal production teams.
- Building relationships with external suppliers, organising delivery dates and making cancellations where necessary.
- Working with the operational team to assist in stock movements around the estate.
- Working across the ecommerce, accounting, and retail systems to input and maintain data.
- Setting up new products on internal systems, raising POs, and processing orders.
- Maintaining the internal barcode library.
- Maintaining the shelf-life inventory process and the short date list.
- Managing the sample library, including requesting samples for shoots and press, and actioning stock movements across the business.
- Working closely with press, marketing, and social teams to ensure retail products are highlighted across channels in-line with estate themes and product launches.
- Working with the ecommerce and shop teams to ensure pricing accuracy and product alignment across all channels.
- Working with the goods in team and accounts team, to reconcile invoicing paperwork.
- Understanding the need for clear and accurate data, maintaining all systems and following product processes, ensuring that supplier information is regularly checked and kept up to date.
- Working with our internal production, product developers as well as external suppliers to ensure that product data is up to date, including ingredients listings, allergens and dietary requirements.
- Regularly checking our website and shops to make sure that products, prices, and display information is accurate.
- Assisting with packaging inventory and prices and liaising with packaging suppliers.
- Understanding who our competitors are and performing regular comp shops, both online and in stores to check newness, prices, and display.

**What we can offer**
- A positive workplace environment with opportunities to develop both personally and professionally.
- ** Stay in shape** with complimentary use of our gym and wellbeing classes
- Look after your wellbeing with complimentary access to our **Spa and swimming pools** and our exclusive benefit of 50% off spa treatments.
- Enjoy shopping in both our shops on estate and online with **30% discount for all our colleagues** and free delivery for any online purchases.
- Discover **exclusive perks** with our Discounted hotel stays for staff, accompanied by a fantastic 30% discount at our restaurants.
- The opportunity to **ensure your views are heard** and shape the future of the business via our Employee Engine Room.
- Complimentary **garden membership** for the Newt and our partner gardens including the Eden Project, Kew Gardens and The Lost Gardens of Heligan
- ** Complimentary** meal whilst on shift, created **using fresh produce** from our estate by our dedicated staff food chefs
- ** We value your hard work** and recognise your achievements through our colleague recognition programme **“Newt Awards”** with the opportunity to achieve a variety of amazing rewards including a complimentary Hotel Stay.
- ** Support** from our **Employee Assistance Programme** for both yourself and your family
- A team that knows how to have fun with regular team engagement activities including monthly **Gather and Grow Motivational Speakers** and our regular fun squad events, which include activities such as **Go-Karting and Wine Tasting**, to name but a few.
- Up to 30 days annual leave each year for our full-time team

**What we're looking for**
- Experience within a retail, procurement, or merchandising team dealing with consumer products.
- Some product development and commercial buying experience preferred but not essential.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with strong interpersonal skills.
- Impeccable organizational skills with an emphasis on attention to detail and accuracy.
- An avid multi-tasker, able to manage multiple systems within a fast-paced office environment and enjoys working in an ever-changing environment.
- Passionate about product and driven by desire for The Newt to be best in class.
- An understanding of the market, the competition and product val