Assistant Manager, Quality Assurance and Testing

Job description

Country: China (Peoples Republic of)
Job Function: Sourcing

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

City / Location: Guangzhou
Brand: adidas

Relocation: No

Somewhere, in one of our workshops right now, the future is taking shape. We are constantly working to redefine the way clothing and footwear transforms the pitch, court or course. This is what drives us: the feeling of discovery and the urge to innovate. When we create a product that makes our hearts beat faster, we know we’re onto something.

If this sounds inspiring, you might be one of us: Someone who loves to create the present, as well as shape the future. There’s a reason adidas has been at the forefront of defining sport for more than 60 years: We never stand still. Everyday, we work to improve everything we create.

At adidas, interesting, amazing and inspiring aren’t just ideas. They are what we do every single day.

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.

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

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.