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Product Development Coordinator - Tableau 

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Who We Are:

At Convivial Brands, everything we do revolves around Making Life Better - which includes creating opportunities, products, and a culture that strives to do just that. The physical products we make help people celebrate and enhance life, sometimes in small, quaint ways, and other times in big statements. From celebrating a wedding to giving a small gift of appreciation, each brand produces an end product that intends to make life friendly, lively, and jovial - ergo making life Convivial. This is achieved through operating within our Core Values of being trustworthy, pursuing excellence, and exemplifying a team first mindset. Those three values are what guides our day-to-day operations and ensures we are moving in the right direction the right way. As our brands continue to expand and grow, we're looking to add new team members who can not just maintain our culture, but can add value and help us continually improve. Our goal is to transform work from an obligation to passion!

Tableau is our newest brand, launched in March of 2020. At Tableau, we bring together unique items and curated collections to make life better through stunning personal environments, with the intent to enhance our customers' home entertaining experience. With an emphasis on textiles and tabletop, Tableau products evoke a casual, yet sophisticated energy, providing endless creative options which are reflective of individual tastes, lifestyles, and homes. In the last year, our Tableau brand has started to soar, which means the team is growing! We're now looking to add a Product Development Coordinator to act as a project and office coordinator to our Tableau team.

The Position:

  • Develop and monitor an organized system for sample requests, follow up and vendor quotes.
  • Request, track, and follow up on sample requests and revisions based on deadlines set.
  • Responsible for all packets going out and incoming samples. Will notify and confirm with vendors when things are sent and when product/samples come in.
  • Populate product development information into the Cost Document to be handed over to Operations as per our necessary deadlines.
  • Approve final “keep” samples – label and hand over to Quality Control.
  • Approve and follow-up on all retail packaging counter samples to ensure that vendor is clear on what is needed and that approvals are sent to vendors prior to production.
  • Order, track, and work with vendors to request and approve photography samples.
  • Coordinate with warehouse team to ensure correct samples are pulled and packed for showrooms and photo shoots.
  • Prep and assist as needed for Photo Shoots.
  • Monitor and order supplies needed for product development.
  • Coordinate with Art Houses/Art Director regarding licensed art to ensure all licensing. information is current and correct for contracts.
  • Keep sample areas and shelves neat and organized.
  • Execute best practices to optimize product development processes.
  • Coordinate with management in the executing of critical decisions based on proper product development.
  • Coordinate overall product development activities with Operations and Marketing teams.
  • Aid in the research and development projects for new product development for organization.
  • Collaborate in the effort to ensure that products enter the market successfully.
  • Track development with suppliers/vendors and update team as needed.
  • Coordinate with Marketing to have necessary product samples ready and available for photo shoots.
  • Create a system for product approval and communicate with suppliers/vendors as necessary to keep product production moving and fluid.
  • Maintain consistency and accuracy of information flow between development and the suppliers.
  • Streamline product development efforts.
  • Provide accurate status updates to management on a consistent basis.
  • Ensure accurate information is updated and current within Cost Document at all times.

 

What's in it for you?

  • You'll be joining a new, growing team where you can make an impact on the development of our systems and processes. There will be opportunities to challenge yourself and opportunities for growth and development.
  • We offer competitive pay and benefits! We have 8 company-paid holidays, a generous Paid Time Off Bank (PTO), and our benefits are robust and affordable. Full-time employees currently get company-paid life insurance (1 timesThis your annual salary) and company-paid short-term and long-term disability. We also offer extras like legal coverage, identitiy protection, and pet insurance! And let's not forget the employee discounts that we offer on each of our brands' products/services - Design Design, Style Life, Verdant Graphics, Tableau, and The High Five Grand Rapids.

 

Convivial Brands Diversity & Inclusion Statement:

Convivial Brands is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our most valuable asset. our employees' individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent - and the way they invest their unique identities in their work - are a significant part of our culture, our reputation, and our achievements. We embrace and encourage our team members' differences in age, colore, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristices that make our team members unique. Convivial Brands' diversity initiatives apply to all parts of the employment experience, including but not limited to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; social and recreational programs; layoffs and separations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

 

If you're ready to make a difference and help us Make Life Better, we invite you to apply!

 
Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time  
Shift -not applicable-  
Position Product Development Coordinator  
Number of Openings 1  
Exempt/Non-Exempt Exempt  
Location Convivial Brands Corporate Headquarters  
EOE Statement It is our policy to offer equal opportunity to all, based upon individual merit and without
regard to race, creed, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status,
height, weight, genetic information (regarding employee or family), family medical history,
Vietnam Era Veterans Status or physical or mental disability (provided that the disability -
with or without a reasonable accommodation - would not interfere with your ability to
perform the essential functions of the position applied for or constitute a safety hazard), to the
extent required by law.

We do not condone harassment relating to a person's race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
citizenship, height, weight, genetic information, age, or physical or mental disability. We
prohibit the use, distribution, sale, or possession of drugs, and controlled substances while at
work. We prohibit reporting to work under the influence of alcoholic beverages, drugs, or
controlled substances.

If you execute and submit this Application electronically to CONVIVIAL BRANDS ELC, INC, you agree
to the following: (1) you voluntarily agree to submit your Application and the information you
provided in it electronically; and (2) your electronic signature is your own.  

This position is currently not accepting applications.

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