QC Manager, Flooring (India)

QC Manager, Flooring

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Quality Assurance, Sourcing, Merchandising and most importantly the suppliers to embed quality checkpoints at an early stage to ensure the quality of the products throughout the whole process.
• Lead supplier quality and compliance assessment and guiding the supplier on best practices.
• Lead the interpretation of in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations, recommend actions for improvements, and assure resolution.
• Be able to present on-site to supervise supplier QC personnel or self-perform QC actions for troubleshooting or continuous improvement.
• Conduct regular inspections and audits to identify and address quality issues promptly.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve quality-related issues and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Be responsive to the customer complaints related to Product Quality & accordingly address the issues to the suppliers & suggest remedies.
• Proactively responding to all the Quality & returns related communications and closely monitoring quality to reduce the Return percentage.
• Utilize and apply basic data-analysis tools such as SPC and Pareto Charts in review of data to drive process and/or continuous improvement.
• Support the implementation of Quality Management System with HQ Quality Assurance.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in science or engineering or relevant field
• 8+ years of proven experience in quality control. Ideally in furniture or home goods industries.
• Quality control experience in a manufacturing environment and/or field quality experience would be a plus.
• Strong knowledge of quality control methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across different partners
• Be able to travel >50% of the time
• Demonstrated auditing and corrective action proficiency.
• Demonstrated record of successfully assessing and determining the impact of current and potential regulatory compliance issues.
• Demonstrated proficiency in root cause analysis as applied in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.

Preferred:

• [Flooring Industry-specific experience or tools]

• [Direct-to-consumer, retail, or e-commerce background]