Senior Quality Assurance Coordinator – Footwear & Accessories

About the Company:

A company which has transformed, focusing on global growth and brand building. Through a combination of strategic acquisitions and successful partnerships with brands, they have been able to globally expand across the wholesale, retail, e-commerce and licensing channels throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Position Description and responsibilities:

The Senior Quality Assurance Coordinator will report into the Quality Assurance (QA) Manager within the Central Supply Chain department. The Senior Quality Assurance Coordinator works in an environment where he/she needs to influence and support our internal product divisions as well as our external partners in the development, production and shipping of products according to our technical standards and requirements.

Engage with global counterparts to create and develop alignment and process improvement. You are the technical go-to person who champions excellence within your specific area of expertise. Set and work on developing strategies and projects with your peers for the QA team. Navigate and lead together with your team through the completion of the strategy; daily tasks and pragmatic approach of problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Is the key contact for a division within the business, supporting in the daily communication with the divisions on quality related questions.
• Supports continuous alignment and quality improvements across regions to keep signature handwriting for the specific brands.
• Leads regional projects in line with the primary objective of supporting the business to deliver product quality
• Deliver technical trainings to internal and external audiences.
• Support global projects to continuously drive improvement and alignment.
• Work, within the QA team, towards new strategic goals that are set at the beginning of the fiscal year.
• Manage product test process, failures and queries
• Keep informed about new trends and possible quality limitations

Requirements:

• Minimum level of education Bachelor degree in fashion, ideally footwear
• A minimum of 5 years working experience, with a specific focus on footwear and accessories
• Technical experience and factory/or factory knowledge considered as an advantage
• Technical understanding of colour and testing with a pragmatic solution or risk mitigating approach is considered an advantage
• Able to thrive in a pressurized working environment
• Good MS office knowledge, and product life cycle management systems

Other Skills/Abilities:

• Confident decision maker
• Able to thrive in a dynamic environment
• Good Influencing skills
• Willingness to travel• Good team player
• Able to work autonomously
• Comfortable in presenting to an audience
• Customer service minded
• Good spoken and written English (Dutch not essential)