Product Coordinator

**Description**:
Aje was created in 2008 to translate the effortless Australian lifestyle into fashion.
Designed for an elegance grounded in ease, our garments empower our customers to feel relaxed, assured and beautiful.
Our company strives to invite freedom of self-expression in each architectural store environment, bringing our customers a confidence and beauty that elevates their every day to an occasion.
Join icon fashion house Aje as a Product Coordinator at our Aje Head Office in Redfern.
**About this opportunity**:
Critical Path / Production
- Work closely with Head of Production to ensure seasonal timelines are maintained according to company wide critical path, while seamlessly working on seasons at one time.
- Ensuring all risks to Production delivered to retail is mitigated and reduced.
- Raising and sending of accurate purchase orders to all suppliers in accordance with the final merchandise order file.
- Generate and distribute accurate barcode data to all suppliers against all purchase orders across all channels.

Design / Development
- Work closely with design and merchandising team to ensure quality products are delivered in line with the company expectations and parameters.
- Support all suppliers and the wider team to solve specific make, fabrication or construction queries.
- Assist the designers with setting up tech packs including BOM and tech CADS for the factories.
- Process lab dips, strike offs and submissions to factory

Garment Tech and Product
- Attend production fit sessions to monitor production progress.
- Provide a weekly update in Product Meeting to design and production departments on workflow.
- Request and track and monitor Pre-Production and Shipment Sample in line with critical path - key dates.
- Track Receipt and Approval of pre-production and shipment samples within acceptable timeframe. Distribute to relevant tech team members for processing

Logistics
- Liaise with Logistics on goods handed over to Freight Forwarder for movement to selected warehouse.
- Plan and communicate each season's schedule for SEA and AIR.
- In conjunction with logistics resolve any unforeseen overages or shortages on stock delivered from suppliers

**You will bring**:
Degree or equivalent accredited course in Fashion.
Minimum 1+ years' experience in Design, Fashion, Development or Production accredited training course.
Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Excel and Google Drive.
Thorough understanding of aspects of design and product development process.
Proactive interest in keeping at the forefront of the industry and bringing in best practise initiatives.
Experience in working with offshore vendors.
Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to react quickly to feedback and adjust planning and designs accordingly.
What do we offer?
Generous salary packaging
It is hard not to embrace the Aje style with generous employee discounts, staff wardrobes, pre-order programs, clothing allowances and regular sample sales
Your growth is our growth, training and development programs are recommended and encouraged
Career progression
Celebrate milestones such as, Birthdays with Aje leave benefits
Access to our comprehensive Employee Assistance Program designed to support your wellbeing
No key achievement and success goes unnoticed
Referral incentives
Increasing positive corporate responsibility, reflected through our Aje Aware Charter
- Stepping away from the traditional, Aje HQ is a sunlit space within Surry Hills that influences creative and collaborative thoughts. The awe will never diminish when looking at the curved arches, textured walls and open roof