Assistant Manager Quality

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Work in close coordination with designer for facilitating design related discussion and merchandiser for approval related discussion.
• Develop sample specified (spec) sheet while finalizing trims with designer along with tech pack for each style to review and approve packing details against product categories.
• Conduct the fit session of development/fit and PP sample/dress forms with designer, buyer, and merchandiser and ensure amendments.
• Check lab reports of each individual style and give approval and conclusion based on results.
• Factory audits: perform factory audits for new vendors before starting operations with them and conduct random factory audits of existing vendors periodically.
• Facilitate periodic review of PP meeting report, provide guidance to QA team while ensuring quality for incoming products from all vendors.
• Interface with QA and vendor for addressing technical queries and keep a check on customer feedback while ensuring customer complaints level is reduced to below 1%.
• Communicate technical requirements and changes to internal teams during collection pre-production stage.
• Administer accurate management of software admin and data input – fit, construction comments, and size charts.
• Facilitate ongoing review and development of quality lead construction standards.
• Contribute to developing technical team ways of working and support business in more efficient processes.
• Determine management of risk attributes within garments while organizing fit meetings to achieve required critical path.
• SOP operation: create complete process from design to dispatch to troubleshoot operational flaws and minimize lead time and cost.
• Vendor analysis: analyze and rate vendor performance on various quality parameters and production efficiency.
• Work with buyers and designers to create new garment specs and collaborate to determine best fabric and trim combinations, participate in pre-production fittings and management of comments and size charts to pattern and production team.
• Manage workload in an organized manner and maintain a central filing system which interlinks with other members of the team.
• Identify opportunities to improve technical performance of product area through simplified ways of working.
• Take care of employee performance development reviews and personal development plans.
• Improve the customer proposition through the implementation of a gated development process.