Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

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Senior Quality Assurance Lead

This position offers a unique opportunity to join a dynamic organization as a Senior Quality Assurance Lead. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the highest quality standards in footwear manufacturing.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in quality assurance and experience working with cross-functional teams. They will possess excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

• Pre-Production Stage: Ensure product integrity by supporting Pre-Production Sample approval and conducting risk assessments.
• Conduct Risk Assessments: Evaluate end product tests to provide necessary technical support or escalate issues when product aesthetics may be affected.
• Meetings and Communication: Participate in meetings with business partners to ensure proactive risk assessment and mitigation.
• Production Stage: Support technical execution during production stage and troubleshoot any technical issues that arise.
• Quality Assurance Stage: Implement a globally aligned process to validate vendors and factories operate efficiently, safely, and ethically, producing high-quality products.
• Strategic Approach: Provide proactive and strategic approach to Quality Assurance, ensuring standardized focus across divisions and countries of production while meeting brand standards and tolerances in mass production.
• Factory Evaluation: Evaluate factories to ensure capability in product production, understanding production machinery adjustments and functionality to ensure correct usage.
• Pitfalls Identification: Identify pitfalls in factory layout, manufacturing processes, and quality management, liaising with vendors/factories to enhance product quality and daily productivity.
• Technical Issues Escalation: Escalate technical issues to business partners to ensure proactive resolution without compromising quality or impacting delivery dates.
• Overseeing Production Line Findings: Oversee ongoing production line findings, articulating insights and recommendations to cross-functional teams, DGO, and vendors.
• Competitor Benchmarking: Maintain knowledge of competitor benchmarking and industry standards to facilitate improvements and protect the brand.
• Training Needs Identification: Collaborate with management and team members to identify training needs, developing or modifying training programs for internal team, and supporting VQP/VQA training and certification processes.
• Vendor QA Team Coaching: Actively coach and mentor vendor QA teams to ensure strong business relationships and adherence to the code of conduct.
• Quality Requirements Communication: Work with QA team to communicate and validate quality requirements, QA policies, and procedures to new factories, ensuring compliance with company standards.

The following skills and qualifications are required for this role:

• Strong background in quality assurance
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor's degree in a related field

This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• A dynamic and supportive work environment
• A comprehensive benefits package

To apply for this position, please submit your resume and cover letter to [contact information].