We are looking for a Product Development & Sourcing Coordinator to help take our small, but mighty, business to the next level. As the Product Development and Sourcing Coordinator, you will be treated as a partner and take a jack-of-all-trades role. You will oversee the entire product development and sourcing process, including concept creation, design, price negotiation, sampling, production management, quality control, and logistics. Simply said, you will never be bored.
You will be in charge of driving progress across various aspects of the business, from sampling to vendor negotiation to managing company documents.
You will also work on a wide variety of projects and interesting products in a fast-paced environment. You should have a high level of energy and professionalism, think critically, feel confident and comfortable handling multiple tasks, eager to learn and, importantly, not be afraid to ask questions. You must also have high-level customer service skills, strong written/verbal skills, be extremely detail-oriented, and have a positive solution-focused attitude. We are looking for someone who is interested in building a future with a small, but fast growing, dynamic company.
You will be working very closely with the entire team, including the Founder/CEO, and be exposed to all aspects of the business.
Core Job Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Managing orders from order placement until the product is in the client's hands. This includes, but is not limited to; verifying pricing, following up with manufacturers, tracking orders through delivery and be able to think quickly when creative solutions are needed.
• Working with freelance artists and engineers based all over the world, including Australia and South Africa.
• Placing and following up on sample orders, project specifications and client requests.
• Assisting the founder as needed and provide self-directed client contact when he is out of the office or unavailable.
• Building creative decks for client’s needs, leveraging with our designers when necessary.
• Assisting in or driving product research.
• Maintaining a high level of customer service and pleasant communication with all new and existing clients.
• Creating sales orders, purchase orders and invoices.
• Managing, reviewing, and shipping incoming and outgoing samples.
• Potentially traveling to Asia to visit manufacturing facilities.
Requirements:
You have a Bachelor Degree. It does not matter what you studied, but anything related to international business or Chinese would make our jaws drop.
• You have 2 years of work experience, or if you pick things up quicker than Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, we are cool with that too.
• You are not phased by being given responsibilities that could permanently alter the course of the business on the same day you have to do minor tasks like ordering business cards. With that said, we have great business cards.
• You consider yourself a plant that one day wants to grow into a giant tree. That was a metaphor, we are not hiring plants, but we are looking for people that want to grow with the business.
• You are the kind of person who is weirdly obsessed with overcoming challenges that do not have straight-forward answers and require in-depth research.
• You think working with Asia is the future - and embrace the fact that working hours with Asia vary based on work flow, business needs and time zones.
If you are truly interested in this job, please go ahead and reach out!
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $50,000.00 to $60,000.00 /year