Product Development Administrator

About DeMellier:

DeMellier is a fast-growing award-winning designer fashion brand based in London. DeMellier has been awarded twice by the British Luxury Association WALPOLE, recognising its commitment to innovation, craftsmanship and the highest standards of quality. Its handbags have become a favourite among women all over the world, including celebrities such as Beyonce, Irina Shayk, Emily Blunt, and January Jones among others.

In addition to its direct-to-consumer business, DeMellier is stocked in leading department stores such as Net-a-Porter, Selfridges, Saks Fifth Avenue and Le Bon Marche among others. Beyond creating beautiful products, DeMellier’s mission is to be a force of positive influence in the fashion industry. Creating products by women for women, made with integrity while giving back to those less fortunate. For every item sold, DeMellier funds vaccines and medical treatments aimed to save the life of a child in need.

This role sits at the heart of the Product Development team, providing essential administrative and operational support across the full development cycle. You will ensure the smooth flow of prototypes, samples, raw materials, and documentation by maintaining accurate data, tracking shipments, and supporting day-to-day communication with vendors and internal teams.

You will work closely with Product Developers, Raw Material Developers, and the wider cross‑functional teams to ensure all information, materials, and samples are organised, up to date, and easily accessible. This position is critical in keeping processes running efficiently and accurately, helping the team deliver exceptional product on time while upholding DeMellier’s high standards of quality and craftsmanship.

This is a role for someone who thrives in organisation and structure, enjoys administrative tasks, and takes pride in maintaining precise and reliable records. While you will gain exposure to every stage of development, this position is best suited to someone who enjoys being a dependable backbone to the team.

• Liaising with vendors on shipments, tracking and monitoring deliveries to ensure they arrive on time.
• Pack and ship protos and raw materials to vendors, create shipping labels, and track shipments proactively, flagging any issues with the PD team and helping to resolve them.
• Maintain the “life tracker” of all shipments.

• Assist the team with PO management of prototypes, showroom samples, raw materials.
• Responsible for organising and processing GRVs and recording invoices with finance.
• Maintain and update necessary data and ensure accuracy is maintained in Priority.
• Support PD team in updating Priority/PLM running reports to check data accuracy.
• Support the team in maintaining up-to‑date vendor forms.
• Manage shipment of raw material and finished goods to and from labs.
• Supports with Industrialisation admin.

• Assist PD team in taking pictures of protos and samples.
• Ensuring SMS are always kept in a good condition.
• Support preparing samples for production, wholesale, creative and marketing handovers.
• Coordinate and record wear testing of finished products, actively gathering feedback and flagging any issues to the PD team.
• Support the PD team in assuring the weight and dimensions file for all products is up to date, ensuring correct data is recorded in Priority/PLM.
• Assist in the creation of barcodes and labelling samples, ensuring codes match the bags.
• Supports maintaining the edge‑paint and threads master file and library for all factories.

• Places POs for SMS, chases SMS orders, keeps SMS raw materials tracker up to date, raises issues with raw materials developers immediately.
• Sends approved material and colour references to factories, creative team and copywriter.
• Assists in maintaining the development library, archiving lab dips and hardware samples and keeping material archive organised.

• Maintains a full-time presence in the office in Hammersmith, with optional bi‑weekly Friday hybrid work.
• Administrative support to the PD team including supporting with…