Are you passionate about fashion and ready to take the next step in your career? Claire's is looking for a dedicated and dynamic Assistant Product Developer to join our European Licence and Event Buying team.
In this role you'll be at the heart of our product development process. The Product Development Assistant will be crucial in managing the product lifecycle, ensuring our products shine from conception to completion.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Development Support: Assist the Product Developer and Manager with day-to-day tasks, ensuring all assigned categories run smoothly.
- Administrative Excellence: Handle various administrative duties such as creating reports, managing purchase orders, tracking product samples, and preparing trend reports.
- Sample Management: Organize and track product samples, ensuring they meet our standards and deadlines.
- Vendor Communication: Maintain clear and continuous communication with vendors, ensuring product samples and tech packs are accurate and timely.
- Trend Analysis: Keep a keen eye on market trends and competitor analysis to help shape our product assortment.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with vendors.
- Order Management: Oversee purchase orders, from creation to tracking, ensuring all details are accurate and up to date.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience: Previous experience in a Buying Admin Assistant role, ideally with a focus on Product Development.
- Skills: Strong organisational, planning, and communication skills. Basic retail math skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint and Excel) are essential.
- Attributes: A proactive, results-driven individual who is keen to learn, inspire others, and embrace change.
- Fashion and trends: A passion for fashion and up to date with the latest trends.
Why Claire's?
- Hybrid Working: Enjoy a flexible working environment with 3 days a week at our European HQ in Erdington, Birmingham.
- Career Growth: Be part of a team that supports your growth and development within the company.
- Dynamic Environment: Thrive in a fast-paced, creative, and fun work atmosphere.
Claire's is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we encourage applications from members of all underrepresented groups, including those with disabilities. We will accommodate applicants' needs, upon request, throughout all stages of the recruitment process. Please inform us of the accommodation(s) that you may require.
What We Do
For more than 60 years, Claire’s has opened the door to self-discovery for people of all ages. We’re dedicated to encouraging this through each experience and product discovery. As a global brand powerhouse for self-expression, we’re passionate about our purpose and our people.
Trusted by consumers around the world, our Claire’s and Icing brands deliver immersive experiences through more than 2,300 company-operated Claire’s and Icing stores in North America and Europe, more than 300 Claire’s franchise stores primarily in the Middle East and South Africa, and over thousands of concessions globally across our trusted retail partners.
Behind each consumer experience, is a team of truly inspirational people who show up as they are and encourage others to do the same every day. Supporting our team members as they grow, change and reinvent themselves is how we get stronger and more innovative as an organization, creating an inclusive and diverse culture that inspires us all to dream and achieve.
Learn more about us and our company values @Claire'sValues
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