Company Description

WE ARE MORE THAN JUST A CLOTHING BRAND; WE ARE ON A MISSION TO TRANSFORM THE FUTURE OF FASHION

Are you looking for a company that pushes the boundaries and creates a community inclusive of everyone? A shared vision beyond only us?

If you answered yes, why not join us? This could be your first step towards a new and exciting career at COS! We are now looking for a Sample Coordinator to join our Brand and Communications team on a full-time Permanent contract.

About COS: Offering innovative design, elevated essentials and wardrobe icons, COS is a fashion brand rooted in contemporary culture. From the beginning, our design ethos has always put lasting style, quality and sustainability first. Today 92% of the materials in our collection are more sustainably sourced.

Job Description

As a Samples Coordinator at COS, you will work in collaboration with the wider PR & Communications team to develop and implement the Global Sample Strategy. You will guide the ways of working with samples for key product launches, seasonal events and photoshoots while maintaining the sample cupboard and London showroom, aligning with the brands wider strategic goals and targets.

What you will do:

• Handling of PR & Communications samples, ensuring timely delivery of all samples
• Maintaining the high standards of the sample cupboard
• Creating new, and updating existing workflows including, sample tracking tools and sample monitoring spreadsheets.
• Collecting, preparing, organising all samples for in-house and external photo shoots
• Ensure the sample cupboard and showroom is stocked with relevant seasonal product and updated per season and project.
• Ensuring shipments and invoicing knowledge is up to date and procedures followed.

Qualifications

Alignment to our company values is the most important characteristic we look for in all new joiners. Our values are the behaviours that we appreciate above and beyond anything else. We are open-minded and curious, we dare to be different, we believe in constant improvement, and we empower and trust you to take ownership. Our values are part of who we are, what we stand for and how we act.

In addition to our values for this role, we are also looking for:

• Experience working with coordinating and managing samples for product launches, seasonal events, photoshoots, or brand collaborations, within a fashion retail background is desirable.
• Someone who is enthusiastic about COS and the fashion industry as a whole.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is necessary, especially with Excel.
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills. 
• Strong communicator with the ability to work with different teams across a head office.
• Sees opportunities to improve in everyday processes and actions.

Additional Information

COS, alongside Arket, Monki, Weekday, Afound, & Other Stories and H&M, is one of several unique brands that make up the H&M group. The H&M Group employs over 170,000 people in 74 markets across the globe, and we are the 2nd largest fashion company in the world. Since launching COS in 2007, we have opened more than 200 stores worldwide.

At COS we love welcoming new people and work hard to provide an environment where everyone feels appreciated and valued. We celebrate individual differences and recognise the contribution that all our colleagues make, regardless of their background.

When you first join COS, you will have a full introduction, excellent training, and a team that will support you during your first days, weeks and months. In addition to this you will also receive lots of fantastic benefits including.

• 25% Staff Discount
• Up to 25 days holiday
• Annual Health Checks
• Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Private Health & Dental care
• Discounts on everyday brands, lifestyle and activities
• Discounted Gym Membership

In this role you will have some flexibility to work remotely however due to the high level of cross department collaborations much of your time will be spent in our wonderful office in Holborn.

Ready to apply? Click on the I’M INTERESTED link where you can upload your CV securely. Once we have received your application, we will keep you updated regularly about the status of your application so please look out for our email.