Supply Chain & Planning Coordinator (12-month FTC)
Job Title: Supply Chain & Planning Coordinator (12-month FTC)
Location: Norfolk & London (Hybrid working) 2 days minimum Norfolk, 1 day London
Reporting To: General Manager - Supply
Who we are
At Monica Vinader, we believe luxury should be empowering, long-lasting and responsibly made. Guided by integrity, craftsmanship and innovation, our goal is to elevate people’s lives by opening access to a more beautiful world.
From crafting consciously with recycled precious metals and ethically sourced materials, to designing enduring, versatile pieces made to be layered, loved and lived in every day, we are redefining what modern jewellery can be. We create jewellery that marks moments, tells stories and becomes part of who you are, all while making responsible luxury more accessible.
Our commitment to sustainability, innovation and positive impact continues to be recognised across the industry.
We are proud to have received:
Responsible Jewellery Brand, 2026 – Country & Town House
Responsible Business of the Year, 2025 – Positive Luxury
Top 50 Inspiring Workplaces (UK & NI), 2024 – Inspiring Workplaces
With a global footprint across physical retail, e-commerce and trusted partners, we put our community at the heart of everything we do. Proudly female-founded and inclusive, we build meaningful relationships with the people who wear and love our jewellery.
We are looking for a Supply Chain & Planning Coordinator to join us as we continue this journey and help us shape what the future of modern jewellery can and should be.
Where we need your help
The Supplier Planning Coordinator role is a 12-month opportunity to join our fast-paced team at a pivotal moment taking ownership of the analytical, coordination, and cross-functional workstreams that sit underneath it.
Alongside this, you'll take on day-to-day supplier coordination across our wider supply base, ensuring our beautiful product continues to be produced, delivered on time, and in line with our stringent commercial standards.
We're looking for someone with excellent organisational, analytical, commercial and interpersonal skills, who can move at pace, work autonomously, and bring rigour to a multi-faceted role that spans project management, cost analysis, supplier coordination, and cross-functional delivery with our NPD, Operations and Merchandising teams.
What you’ll do
Cost Analysis & Commercial Insight
Build and maintain detailed product cost breakdowns.
Model the impact of precious metal price movements and duty changes on product cost and margin, and flag risks and opportunities early.
Carry out in-depth product cost analysis and turn it into clear narratives, directional findings and recommended actions that inform negotiations and decisions.
Support with product cost reduction reporting: track savings delivered, maintain a pipeline of future opportunities, and check that agreed savings land in cost prices.
Coordinate special cost control and planning projects as directed.
Planning, Forecasting & Performance Analysis
Communicate monthly buy plans and forecasts to suppliers; analyse capacity against forecast, quantify gaps and risks.
Track and analyse supplier performance data, including on-time delivery, lead times and quality, to identify trends and early warning signs.
Lead data collection, analysis and insight packs for Supplier Annual Business Performance Reviews, telling a clear, evidence-based story of each supplier's performance.
Coordinate day-to-day raw materials planning, tracking raw material and component stocks against usage and plan.
Project Coordination & Controls
Project-manage workstreams within strategic projects, enabling the Supplier Relationship & Planning Manager to deliver against FY27 targets.
Support the creation, initiation and ongoing management of control mechanisms, working cross-functionally to embed robust controls.
Help the Supplier Relationship & Planning Manager monitor and report on supplier process controls.
Coordinate integration controls between Design, Operations and our suppliers.
Day-to-Day Supplier Management
Develop and maintain professional, respectful and collaborative relationships with our external supply partners.
Coordinate supplier communications on production capacity and on-time delivery; flag risks early, support expediting of priority orders, and work with Merchandising to resolve blockers.
Share relevant supplier updates with the wider NPD team in a clear, concise and timely way.
Sourcing & Onboarding
Coordinate supplier onboarding and materials sourcing projects against detailed critical paths, supporting our robust onboarding process for new sources.
Support new supplier evaluation activity, including cost and capability comparisons.
Coordinate special projects as directed, such as new product components and new product categories.
Supplier Administration
Manage Supplier Portal training and ongoing technical support.
Own new supplier set-up in the company database.
Coordinate and resolve supplier-related and escalated shipping issues.
What you’ll bring
Connect & Empower
Communicates Effectively: You translate complex data into clear, concise insight that non-analytical audiences can act on. Whether you're writing a cost summary, presenting findings to senior stakeholders or holding a conversation with a supplier, you adapt your message to the audience and lead with what matters. You act as a clear link between internal teams and external partners, share timely updates, ask clarifying questions and keep two-way communication flowing across NPD, Merchandising and Operations.
Collaborates Proactively: A helpful, hands-on team player, you approach a wide remit of responsibilities with a positive attitude. You willingly support colleagues across functions — from Merchandising and Design to Operations and NPD — to build alignment around shared goals, and you cultivate respectful, collaborative relationships with both internal teams and our external supply partners.
Drive & Deliver
Workflow Management: Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail, you plan your own workload, adapt timelines as priorities shift, and set clear expectations with stakeholders to keep multiple workstreams moving in parallel. You bring strong project management skills with excellent critical path tracking — confidently coordinating workstreams within larger strategic projects as well as your own day-to-day deliverables — and you communicate progress proactively so the wider team always knows where things stand.
Dives Deep: Highly numerate and analytically rigorous, you're genuinely at home in the numbers. You have advanced Excel skills and use them with confidence to build cost models, run scenarios and work across large datasets. You check your own work carefully, reconcile data from different sources and verify the facts before drawing conclusions. You're equally comfortable interrogating a supplier cost breakdown, a forecast or a capacity plan, and you know which questions to ask to get beneath the surface.
Focuses on the Right Thing: You manage multiple priorities in tandem calmly and with ease, prioritising your work based on value and risk and adjusting your focus to remove blockers based on business need. You distinguish urgency from importance instinctively and know when to escalate so your effort is always pointed at the highest-impact work.
Delivers Results: A problem solver with common sense who stays calm under pressure, you are resilient and relentless in pursuit of your goals. You hold yourself to a high standard, meet deadlines with quality, flag blockers early, and follow through on commitments to both your team and our supply partners.
Grow & Adapt
Challenges & Commits: You speak up respectfully when you see a better way and bring a constructive point of view to commercial conversations — whether that's questioning a cost position with a supplier, flagging a risk to internal stakeholders, or proposing a different approach to a workstream. Once a decision is made, you commit fully behind the agreed plan.
Embraces Change: A self-starter who works autonomously and adapts quickly, you stay focused and seek clarity when priorities shift, and you help those around you maintain momentum through ambiguity. You're comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment where plans flex frequently.
Master & Apply
Functional/Technical Expertise: Experienced and confident in cost analysis, project coordination tools, and the systems used to manage supplier data and critical paths. You bring a practical understanding of operational standards, supplier management, and budget tracking, and you can act as a go-to for colleagues on the tools and processes you use day to day. Open to learning the technical context of jewellery manufacturing and applying it quickly.
Applies Knowledge with Impact: You connect your analytical work to commercial outcomes, framing what the data is telling us in terms of cost, risk and opportunity rather than reporting in isolation. You spot real problems and propose practical solutions, and you understand how your day-to-day coordination underpins the wider project's commercial impact.
To be successful at Monica Vinader, it helps if you...
Are hands-on, solutions-focused, and entrepreneurial
Collaborate openly with humility, honesty, and humour
Embrace learning, teaching, and personal growth
Stay resilient, adaptable, and self-motivated in a creative environment
Speak up when you don’t know - and act fast to figure it out
Additional Requirements
Ability to document your authorisation to work in the United Kingdom.
Travel Requirements
Regular travel to our Norfolk / London offices will be required.
Our Aims and Values
Our mission is to be the leading accessible luxury brand, by delivering outstanding quality, design and customer service. We are:
Customer Obsessed
We put our customers at the centre of every decision and deliver thoughtful, personal experiences.
Caring
We act with respect and empathy for people, communities, and the planet.
Fast Paced
We move with focus and flexibility to make progress quickly and decisively.
Exceptional
We hold ourselves to high standards and are always learning, improving, and raising the bar.
Commercial
We make smart, data-led decisions that create long-term value for the business and our customers.
Monica Vinader as a global business makes the following inclusive culture pledge:
Our jewellery is for everyone and so is our community. Together, we will continue to implement sustainable changes to ensure that career opportunities and progression are open to all. We commit to celebrating the diverse voices of our employees, partners, and the customers we serve.
- Department
- NPD Management and Design
- Locations
- London Head Office, Holkham Head Office
- Remote status
- Hybrid
About Monica Vinader
Monica Vinader as a global business makes the following inclusive culture pledge:
Our jewellery is for everyone and so is our community.
Together, we will continue to implement sustainable changes to ensure that career opportunities and progression are open to all.
We commit to celebrating the diverse voices of our employees, partners, and the customers we serve