Design Coordinator, Bed Bath - Pottery Barn

About the Team

You will be a part of a collaborative team responsible for driving and managing sample development from concept through to production, working together with Design, Technical Design, Merchants, and Sourcing team members. As part of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., a leader in home lifestyle and retail, our Product Development and Design team brings customer-centered, trend-forward products to life through seasonal collaboration, innovation, and cross-brand alignment.

Responsibilities

• Help support weekly Product Development meetings by ensuring all samples are set up for review in a timely manner
• Maintain updated Sample Request Reports
• Ensure all samples are on track to arrive for milestone meetings and deadlines
• Manage, track, and request all samples between factories, warehouse and showrooms
• Proactively maintain organized sample spaces by keeping products stored in a manner that fosters a safe environment to conduct business
• Absorb and communicate to design team incoming samples for weekly review
• Label each sample with barcode, and print barcodes when sample gets wrapped to leave building
• Work with furniture team on opening and building new furniture samples for weekly product development
• Absorb and assist with concept set up

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and time management
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and adapt to change
• Attention to detail, assertive, with strong organizational skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Competencies

• High aptitude and agility to direction and guidance provided
• Proactive when given a task; engage in the process
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and teamwork through each season

Physical Requirements

• Ability to type on a keyboard and operate a PC
• Ability to converse over a telephone
• Ability to transport materials or equipment or lifting, moving, carrying objects up to 50 pounds on a limited basis
• Ability to open crates, open boxes, assemble furniture, hang mirrors, and use drill for concept projects
• Ability to work on feet 50% of time and at desk 50% of time
• Ability to work in corporate environment

About Us

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States. Our family of brands are Williams Sonoma, Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, Rejuvenation, West Elm, Mark & Graham, Outward, and GreenRow. These brands are among the best known and most respected in the industry. We offer beautifully-designed, stylish and functional products for every area of the home, including the kitchen, living room, bedroom, home office, closet, laundry room and even outdoor spaces. We've seen some big changes since our first brick-and-mortar store opened more than half of a century ago. What hasn't changed is our passion for high-quality products, functional design, outstanding customer service, and enhancing the lives of our customers and the communities where we operate. Today, we're a multi-brand, multi-channel, global enterprise supported by state-of-the-art technology and some of the most talented teams in retailing - and we're always looking for new energy and ideas.