About this role
Summary
Founded in Florence, Italy, in 1921, Gucci is one of the world’s leading luxury brands. Under the leadership of President and CEO Francesca Bellettini and the artistic direction of Demna, the House continues to redefine luxury and fashion while celebrating creativity, Italian craftsmanship, and innovation.
Gucci is part of the global luxury group Kering, which manages renowned Houses in fashion, leather goods, jewelry, and eyewear.
Reporting to the Shoes Collection Coordination Director, the Men Shoes Product Coordinator supports the end-to-end development of the Men’s Shoes collection, coordinating activities, information and timelines across Design, Merchandising and the Industrial Division. The role contributes to translating the creative vision into a coherent, timely and high-quality product offer, while monitoring development milestones, costs, samples and cross-functional deliverables.
Job Description
Key Accountabilities
- Coordinate Men’s Shoes collection development calendars, key milestones and deliverables, ensuring alignment across Design, Merchandising, Product Development, Costing and other relevant functions.
- Gather and consolidate collection inputs, product requests and technical information, translating them into clear priorities, schedules and follow-up actions for the teams involved.
- Monitor the development of prototypes, samples and SKUs from sketch handover through review and final product delivery, proactively identifying risks, delays and open points.
- Act as a day-to-day point of connection between the Creative team and Gucci ArtLab / Industrial teams, ensuring timely exchanges on prototyping, materials, technical feasibility and sample development.
- Organize and support collection reviews, fittings and key alignment meetings, ensuring that samples, overviews and all relevant documentation are complete, accurate and available.
- Maintain accurate tracking and archiving of sketches, samples, prototypes, collection overviews and product information across shared digital folders and physical archives.
- Coordinate sample movements and product reviews, ensuring that items are recorded, sent to the appropriate teams and returned or archived according to agreed timelines.
- Partner with Merchandising, Product Development and Costing teams to support target-price alignment, cost monitoring and timely identification of optimization opportunities.
- Consolidate cross-functional feedback, including merchandising, product, costing and legal inputs, and ensure its timely circulation and follow-up with the relevant teams.
- Monitor collection-related expenses and purchase invoices, supporting budget accuracy and the correct tracking of costs connected with prototypes, materials, travel, meetings and events.
- Provide clear and regular status updates to the Shoes Collection Coordination Director and relevant stakeholders, escalating critical issues and proposing practical solutions.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of collection coordination tools, ways of working and information flows, promoting collaboration, accuracy and accountability across teams.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of experience in product development, collection coordination or a comparable role within the luxury fashion industry; direct experience in Men’s Shoes is strongly preferred.
- Solid understanding of footwear product development processes, from creative concept and sketch handover to prototyping, fittings, costing, sample reviews and final delivery.
- Proven ability to manage complex calendars, multiple priorities and a high number of stakeholders in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Strong organizational and project coordination skills, with excellent attention to detail, accuracy and follow-through.
- Effective communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate across Creative, Merchandising, Industrial, Legal and external partners.
- Proactive, solution-oriented and accountable approach, with the ability to anticipate issues and support timely decision-making.
- Confident use of Microsoft Office; knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop is considered an advantage.
- Fluency in Italian and English.
Key challenges
- Coordinating several collection-development streams and priorities simultaneously while safeguarding quality, timing and budget.
- Ensuring a smooth, accurate and timely flow of information among multiple creative, merchandising, industrial and legal stakeholders.
- Operating effectively in an environment where priorities may evolve rapidly and require agile problem-solving.
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Salary Package
Gross Annual Salary : 45.000 € (unless otherwise agreed, in the event of a positive outcome of the selection process, should specific levels of experience and autonomy and/or particular competencies emerge during the selection process, based on objective criteria).
- NCBA (National Collective Bargaining Agreement) : National Contract per gli Addetti alle Industrie Manifatturiere delle Pelli e Succedanei e Ombrelli e Ombrelloni (unique alphanumeric code: D111)
- White-collar
- Bonuses and Commissions : Annual Target Bonus as per the company-level collective agreement in force, up to 20% of the Gross Annual Salary.
- Other Benefits : Company canteen
- Supplementary health insurance yes
- Company welfare program
Gucci is committed to building a diverse workforce. We believe diversity in all its forms – gender, age, nationality, culture, religious beliefs, and sexual orientation – enriches the workplace. It opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to adapt to a changing world. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their background.
Job Type
Regular
Start Date
2026-11-02
Schedule
Full time
Organization
Guccio Gucci S.p.A.