Quality & Technical Director (Apparel-Vietnamese/ local expat)
Job Description:
Position Overview
Quality and Technical Director is regional leadership role to oversee all Quality and technical activity in Vietnam and Cambodia. Leading, coaching and developing the team to provide world class service to Clients, Vendors and internal stakeholders.
He/she is required to have excellent technical experience in garment construction, risk assessment. sampling, fitting and pattern checking across multiple product categories along with leadership skills to lead a growing team of over 50 Technical and quality professionals ensuring consistent delivery of quality product to customers.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Be the regional ''Go to leader'' for all things related to Quality and technical.
- Work closely with Global and regional teams to advance and share knowledge and best practice and ensure consistent execution in the region.
- Act as a regional leader to take charge of the delivery of on-time sample fitting, construction review, issue resolution and sample delivery.
- Lead and coach the team to drive sample and bulk quality performance proactively with vendors entrepreneurial approach to problem solving and delivering customer expectations
- Manage the teams workload and budgets ensuring delivery of objectives.
- Lead and drive continuous improvement projects / vendor training and development
- Build relationships internally with Global QA, Operations and merchandising teams, and externally with Clients and vendors building trust based on expertise and delivery of objectives.
- Recruit and train high calibre new team member
Job Requirements (Education / Experience / Skill-set)
- Diploma or above in Textile / Clothing or related discipline
- At least 15 years solid experience in woven/knit/sweater items for both womens and mens wear
- Experience in Active wear is a definite advantage
- Excellent knowledge in garment sewing construction, pattern making, grading and fit adjustment
- Able to demonstrate significant experience developing complex, multi category quality strategies and implementing them within the factory base
- Strong leadership ability to lead and coach the team to ensure prompt and timely deliverables
- Excellent communication skills comfortable communicating at all levels with internal and external stakeholders. Strong ability to influence based on experience and knowledge
- Good command of written and spoken English, and capability of Vietnamese communication will be an advantage.
- Proficient in MS office, PLM systems
- Able to work under pressure to meet tight deadline
- Travel is required within region and occasional travel to Head office/customer location
Contact:
An Le, Annie
Email: an.le@peopleprofilers.com
Phone number: (+84) 369 178 150
We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.