De Beers Group is hiring a Senior Product Development Coordinator

The Senior New Product Development Coordinator is the engine behind seamless, commercially intelligent product creation at De Beers London. Working across Product Development, Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain, the role safeguards product data, strengthens supplier partnerships, and enables confident, insight‑led decision‑making. By combining strong systems capability, financial acumen, and a continuous improvement mindset, the Coordinator helps transform creative concepts into commercially sound, beautifully executed pieces delivered on time, on cost, and to the highest standards. Main Responsibilities Own the full costing process for luxury jewellery, ensuring accuracy across diamonds, precious metals, labour, and supplier pricing. Maintain pricing governance and monitor cost variances to support strong margin management. Provide clear financial reporting and support budget visibility across couture, collections, and bespoke development. Act as the custodian of product data across SAP, Firebrand, and PD systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency at every stage. Oversee the creation and maintenance of Product Approval Forms and Bills of Materials, ensuring robust version control. Champion best‑practice system usage, supporting prototype booking‑in, PO updates, stock checks, and reconciliation activities. Build strong working relationships with luxury jewellery suppliers, supporting transparency, capability uplift, and reliable delivery. Partner with the Diamond Centre to maintain up‑to‑date diamond cost data and ensure alignment with prototype pricing. Maintain and improve costing tools and models to support accurate, consistent quoting. Develop and maintain KPIs that track cost accuracy, development timelines, and margin impact. Translate data into clear insights that support decision‑making across Product Development and cross‑functional teams. Analyse cost and timing variances to support sourcing decisions and continuous improvement. Document, refine, and optimise PD processes to support efficient, scalable ways of working. Use Asana, Power BI, and digital tools to track development stages, timelines, and costs. Drive continuous improvement across systems, workflows, and cross‑functional collaboration. Coordinate end‑to‑end Product Development timelines, ensuring clear stage-gate governance, readiness and on‑time progression through all approval milestones. Own novelties project governance, including gate review preparation, NPD agenda setting and action tracking and decision logging to ensure accountability and delivery against commitments. Drive deadline adherence across cross‑functional teams by proactively tracking risks, dependencies and critical paths, escalating issues where required and pushing through urgent decisions when required. Standardise and optimise project workflows, working templates (Excel and Asana), and ways of working to improve stability, consistency, visibility and speed of execution across development projects. Maintain accurate project plans and status reporting within Asana and related tools; providing clear visibility of progress, blockers and delivery risk and impacts to stakeholders. What You’ll Do Act Like an Owner: Take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and commercial soundness of product data, costing, and system records. Ensure every detail from precious‑material costs to BOM structures meets the standards expected in luxury jewellery. Create Clarity: Translate complex data into clear, structured insights that support confident decision‑making across Product Development, Finance, Procurement, Logistics, and supplier partners. Provide visibility on costs, timelines, risks, and variances. Empower Teams: Work closely with colleagues and external partners to resolve issues quickly, share knowledge, and strengthen ways of working. Support teams by ensuring systems, processes, and information flow smoothly across the development lifecycle. Challenge Conventions: Identify risks, inefficiencies, and gaps in data, costing, or process accuracy. Propose improvements that enhance product integrity, operational discipline, and supplier performance, contributing to continuous improvement across the function. Succeed Together: Build strong, trusted relationships across the organisation and with suppliers. Contribute to a seamless development process, accurate product information, and a consistently high‑quality customer experience.