Assistant Manager - Quality

Job description / Role

- Work in close coordination with Designer for facilitating design related discussion and Merchandiser for approval related discussion.
- Developing sample specified (spec) sheet while finalizing trims with Designer along with tech pack for each style to review & approve packing details against product categories.
- Conduct the Fit Session of Development /Fit & PP Sample / Dress forms with designer, buyer & merchandiser and ensuring amendments
- Checking lab reports of each individual style and give approval & conclusion based on result. - Factory Audits: To do factory audits for new vendors before starting the operations with them and random factory audits of existing vendors periodically.
- Facilitating periodic review of PP meeting report, providing guidance to QA Team while ensuring quality for incoming products from all vendors.
- Interfacing with QA and Vendor for addressing technical queries and keeping a check on customer feedback while ensuring customer complaints level to be reduced to below 1%.
- Communicating technical requirements and changes to internal teams during collection pre-production stage
- Administering accurate management of software admin and data input - fit, construction comments and size charts
- Facilitating ongoing review & development of quality lead construction standards.

- Contributing to developing technical team ways of working and supporting business in more efficient processes
- Determining management of risk attributes within garments while organizing fit meetings to achieve required critical path.
- SOP Operation: Creating complete process from Design to Dispatch to troubleshoot operational flaws and minimize lead time & cost.
- Vendor Analysis: To analyse and rate vendor performance on various quality parameters and production efficiency.
- Working with buyers and designers to create new garment specs and collaborating to determine best fabric and trim combinations, participating in pre- production fittings and management of comments & size charts to Pattern & Production Team.
- Manage workload in an organized manner and maintain a central filing system which interlinks with other members of the team.
- Identifying opportunities to improve technical performance of product area through simplified ways of working.
- Taking care of employee performance development reviews and a personal development plan
- Improving the customer proposition through the implementation of a gated development process.

About the Company

The Apparel Group is a global fashion and lifestyle brand conglomerate residing on the crossroads of a modern economy - Dubai, UAE. The mercurial growth in the last 17 years has been by acquiring a host of world class fashion labels from around the world - Nine West, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole, Aldo & Tim Hortons just to name a few.

Today the group caters to thousands of eager shoppers through its over 1530 stores, 75 International brands and employing 12,000 multi cultural staff in over 4 continents. Apparel believes in turning dreams in to reality and we give everyone - our customers, our stakeholders, our employees - an equal opportunity to do so.

Apparel group has carved its strong presence not only in the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Saudi Arabia but opened thriving gateways to market in India, South Africa, Poland, Singapore, Jordan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. Additionally, clear strategies are in place to enter emerging markets such as Hungary, Pakistan, Egypt and Philippines.