Assistant Manager, Quality Assurance and Testing

Job description

Country: China (Peoples Republic of)
Job Function: Global Operations

State / Province: China (Peoples Republic of)
Position Type: Full time

City / Location: Guangzhou
Brand: adidas Group

Relocation: No

At adidas Group, our love of sport drives who we are and what we do. But just as a ball is more than leather and thread, and a shoe more than padding and rubber, we are bigger than our products. We don’t just work to create faster shoes and lighter fabrics: We strive to help athletes everywhere perform their best. We believe that it’s hard work inventing the future of sport, and that’s why we love it; that when you push your limits, you make it possible for others to push theirs.

At adidas Group, this drive it what connects us, whether we’re working for TaylorMade, adidas orReebok. We’re all working toward a future motivated by passion, original thinking, and the desire to build upon a proud legacy.

From design to production to logistics to technology, every role in all our brands is connected to this. Our roles span the range of our brands, as well as spanning the globe. No matter what you do, or what country or city you do it in, your work helps make greatness possible.

Purpose:

· Support Manager Quality Assurance and Testing in assigned tasks and projects.
· Support problem solving related to product quality from development to first production in responsible OCs; ensure all testing activities in T1 suppliers in responsible OCs are meeting adidas group requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Quality Assurance
· Assist to monitor Product Creation teams to follow and comply with adidas quality requirement in development process.
· Assist to provide quality risk evaluation / flexible solution without quality compromise at development stage in order to minimize quality concern and/or risk in production.
· Support to track product quality in first production, focus on potential risk, high volume, new models.
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Product and Lab testing
· Conduct audits/validations to identify weak areas and give clear directions as a trainer and advisor to the T1 testing teams to ensure testing method/testing result is in accordance with the adidas-group requirements.
· Support communication with regards to testing topics to other locations and HQ to make sure all involved parties are aligned.
· Support to make judgement calls of testing result in case of ambiguous situations.
· Supervise T1 factories to implement A01 system and make sure the restricted substances are well controlled in adidas products.
· Assist to conduct periodic audits to identify weak areas for T1 Product Testing and lab teams for their improvement
· Coordinate with lab system administrator and provide support to system users in system maintenance.
· Train new comers of other departments on testing knowledges.
· Support in review of limited release.

Key Relationships:

· T1 suppliers
· OC product creation team, product manufacturing team, materials team
· Advanced Creations-Testing team

Knowledge Skills and Abilities :

· Good interpersonal skill and proactive attitude
· Good planning and prioritizing skill
· Willing to learn
· Basic project management skill
· Good in English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

· College degree
· At least one year working experience in footwear production, development, or testing area or equivalent experiences.

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